The Globe-republican., 1895-10-24
KANSAS
KANSAS Items OF interest,"

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A cousin of Tom Reed, lives in To
>eka.
Jerry Black will light all his car
with gas.
A single firm in Independence doe.
an egg business of s25. 900 a year.
Henry N. Cary, managing editor O.
Vhe New York Times, visited his moth
er IN LaCynge last week
Speaker Lobden is saidlio be punch
ing cattle an western Kansas. and in CT
dentally studyidg the day of the
land"
The state well in Grant county con-
tams ninety feet of water, bat sinking
Will not cease until coarse gravel is
reached.
Hofton is building telephone line
to the capital. Being but thirty-two
miles away, size ought to have had it
long ago.
The only way to convict bank wreck
ers in Kansas is to first manage in
some way to deprive them OF the mon
ey they steal
Janitor FUELS ease has moved the
executive council to issue a general
order forbidding the use of the unoc-
cupied rooms of the state house as
sleeping quarters.
Burr Oak township, which has not
had q pOstoffice since before the war.
is to be supplied with one It will be
called Lee and man from Missouri
will be postmaster.
One of the victims of diphtheria in
Topeka last week was the bright little |
5-year-old daughter of Jolsn f. Mitch |
ell, chief clerk of the Santa Fe passen-
ger auditing department.
n johnson county man went to the
national encampment and then visited
through Kentucky, Indiana and ILL
nois. He has returned and is better
satisfied with Kansas, now. than ever
before.
Last Saturday Governor Morrill, re-
stored the rights of citizenship to four
teen convicts in the penitentiary,
whose time will expire within the
next month. Seven of the men are
from Cowley county.
Thousands Of cattle are weekly .
driven from ''No Mans Land' and
shipped to Kansas City from Liberal.
Over 1000 head have been shipped
since the season opened, and tho rush ]
has only begnn.
Topeka city water contains an in.
;1os:ent tia. o ca noles in TN. what,
Topeka needs is an influence that will s
Compel the water company to bore into O
he bowels of the earth a couple of :,
feet after pure water. "
It is said that 300 per cent more
laffir corn wa: raised in Sedgwick p
ounty this year than at any time in a
he past. The yield is from so to 125 "
bushels per acre, and the grain is said h
o make excellent feed for stock. Il
'hautauqua county and has thirty a
ores of corn that is husking out sew il
nty-five bushels per acre, enough if (,
orn was good price, to equal the a
sl-e of the land upon which it grew, IL
Camping in the Wilderness is
ad in Burligame society. The room -,
, arranged to resemble a wilderness D.,
nd the feed consists of quart of ~
ysters and a nickels worth of crack y.
rs for sixty persons. 1t is said to be -
unny by the idiot who invented it,
mt nobody else thinks so. p
Harry NJ. Baker, Of Cowley county, :,
ook Len Ginger, an infirm old man, :
rom the poor farm Saturday. Mr.. e
Baker said that Mr.. Ginger had been p
ne OF the most prosperous farmers in p
'hio, and had helped Baker when he u
vas tramping for work. Is
DIR. Eva Harding of Topeka, is the
roud owner of a little Chinese straw M
erry bird, SO called because Of the re- II
OF its plumage to a straw =
cry. The bird is very small and .
ings . little piping tune. Its bill and t'
reast feathers are blood red, and the al
ntire plumage is heclSed with tiny C
White spots, like the seeds of a straw C
cry. DIR. Harding says it is the only
lrd OF its kind in Topeka. w
Broom corn buyers are in Western p
.ansas 1t has been a good year and m
ne farmers are getting good prices. ia
Lyons has musical composer, Mrs n
!. L. Mcmillan, of considerable merit m
Ter last production is entitled: ..If Il is
'ere not for Hollie and the bab;es,, x
'Aach is spoken of quite favorablv bv in
.sslc critics She was for n lor1 pr
me editor of the Sterling Bulletin.
Mrs De Blowersank of Atch;son O.
'nhes to inform her friends that her =,
sughter's wedding dresses are now ~,
display - those who wish to %. tn
lem The receipted bills viii ~ ~
lnned onto the silks and tr;mm;,osst:
verify Mrs De Blowersank's state- nm