The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1906-08-09

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to run from Kansas City through
Eastern Kansas counties. the Indiar
Territory and to Denison, Tex, has
been chartered. The line will have
a branch to Joplin, Mo-. and another
to Shreveport, La. The name Of the
company is the Missouri River &
Gulf Railroad Company. The com
pany Is organized with capital stocb
of 81 900, 900.
Big Wheat Crop. = Threshing has
now gone far enough to indicate that
the state has raised about 90,000,00C
bushels Of wheat. or 100000 bush
els more than in 1905, and with one
exception the largest crop that Kan
sas ever produced. Indeed, the final
returns may raise the estimate above
the crop of 1903, which, as reported
by Secretary Coburn, was 100000
bushels.
Brought Back Specimens. - DR.. F.
H. Snow and his party Of bug hunt.
ers from the University Of Kansas
have returned from a trip to Mexico.
DR.. Snow brought back with him
$4,000 specimens for the museums.
| Among the bugs were two or three
species of rare beetle, which DR..
Snow had ardently hoped to capture.
While away DR.. Snow was bitten by a
ella monster, but he suffered no i'll
effects from the wound, and brought
the reptile home with him.
Received and Discharged. - The
monthly report Of the warden of the
penitentiary for July shows that 81
prisoners were received and % dis
charged during the month. Thirteen
of those received were from Wyan,
dotte county and eleven Of those dis
charged were sent back to Oklaho-
ma. There are now 1908 convicts in
the penitentiary, divided into the fol.
lowing classes: Whites, 1873; ne.
groes, SEQ; Indians. 10 and Mexi.
cans, 8.
kansans Are Selected.-J. H. At.
wood, Democratic national commit
teeman from Kansas, has been ap-
pointed to select ten Kansas Demo
Gratis to attend the reception to w. ].
Bryan in New York, August 80. He
has selected the following: w. A.
Harris, Lawrence; W. Fl. Ryan, Cir
ard; Thomas Morgan, Ottawa; David
Overmyer, Topeka; Sam Amidon,
Wichita; Hugh Farrelly, Chanute;
w. w. Rhoder, Kansas City; w. P.
Dimard, Fort Scott; Samuel Bishoff.
Lawrence; E. e. Murphy, Leaven-
worth.
Kept His Name Secret.-James H.
Reeder, Judge of the Twenty-third ju.
dicial district, recently attempted to
obtain pardon for Frank West. serv.
ing ten year sentence in the peni.
Tertiary for burglary and the latter
refused to accept executive clemency
because he did not want to tell his
real name. Because of his refusal to
disclose his identity he will have to
serve an additional year in the peni.
tertiary. That indicated that he was
going under an assumed name. He
said his parents were we'll known and
respectable people in the state from
which he came and that he preferred
to keep his penitentary record from
them.
Freak Pig Born Near OsWego. -
The greatest freak among swine is
male pig at the Deming ranch,
Oswego. This freak Of nature Is one
of litter of six pigs. 1t has human
hands, three fingers and a thumb;
the nails are as perfect as human
nails can be and are of pretty pink
color. The hands are lying on the
breast. The pig is a Jet black in
color, except the breast, arms and
hands, they being as white as can be.
The spot on the breast Is hairless
and resembles the skin of a child
The eyes are those of frog, the nose
belongs to the bat family. the ears are
large and lie back on the shoulders
like those of an elephant. The freak
has no hind legs, the body is long
and round and tapers on the end like
nice hoe handle. The tail has a
natural curl which will not ncurl.
1t lived sometime after birth. There
was a birthmark on top Of the skull
that resembles mulberry.
Expenses Exceed Receipts. - The
books of the state treasurer show
that the expense of the state OF Kan
sas for the fiscal year ended June 80
exceeded the receipts by more than
half million dollars. The receipts
during the entire year were $685.
50503 and the disbursements amount
ed to $4,402,210.33. There would have
been q deficiency at the end of the
year had it not been for the fact that
there was a balance in the treasury
at the beginning of the year amount
ing to $777,89049 The balance in
the treasury at the end of the year
was $271 1853. The largest re-
ceipts came from the taxes raised for
state purposes. This item last year