The Globe-republican., 1895-08-29

W september ISL.
Henry Wotterson will lecture j
Topeka August 3Oth.
Hog cholera has broken ont in Bu
Ter county. One farmer has lost forty
John j. Ingalls, will speak in Topek
on Labor day, all reports to the COZ
trary Notwithstanding.
There are sixty counties in Kansa
this year that have feed enough t
feed $1,000 of cattle each.
Manhattan people give parties 70
visiting young ladies out in the woods
and 1t is sensible as it can be.
A severe electrical storm at Law
renee the other evening. scared tn
people up considera bly-and down t,
the cellars.
One hundred and four gallons O
whiskey and fourteen cases of bee,
were destroyed in Chautauqua count,
few days ago.
Baxter Springs is going to have the
biggest reunion this year in the histo
ry OF reunions there. 1t opens the Goth
and continues one week.
The people of Hackney are almost
as tired of hearing this rain is fine
for the corn as the Athenians were OF
hearing about thejustness of Aristides.
An organization has been formed at
Topeka for the purpose of thoroughly
/ t.
1t is wise scheme and one that will
prove most effective. The best bust
ness men in the state are being inter-
ested and it will prove big boom for
KANSAS
General +. A. Frye, the man who
led one division of Coxey's common
veal army from California, according
to the statement of a local barber,
lies dead in the morgue at Topeka.
Leon Butler, who was member of
Fry's division, visited the morgue to
see the body of an unknown man who
was killed Wednesday by the Rock
Island train. He recognized the dead
man as Frye.
E. Jamison, president of the Kansas
State Real Estate Association, has
issued circular letter calling atten-
ton to the meeting in Salina Septem-
Der 9th. The association will be in
session three days. A Kansas Million
club will be organized, the object of
which will be to get one million more
people to come to Kansas. This meet
ing will be open to every citizen in
Kansas. The railroads will make
cheap rate, and an immense crowd is
expected to be present.
Cy Leland will send his daughter to
Gaylord institute, famous old school
at Platte City Mo. Thus are the blue
and the gray getting together. The
young woman's mother was a native
of Platte county and in her girlhood |
the same school. She was
the daughter of an ex-Confederate
soldier and, while she lost no respect |
for the couse her father fought for,
after she became Mr.. Leland's wife
was an active member of the Women's
Relief Corps of the Federal G. A. r.
County Surveyor Roming of Abilene,
has on exhibition in his office at the
court house sample of Kansas irriga-
tion-a tomato plant grown by James
NJ. Tinker, measuring eight feet in
height and loaded with fruit and
bloom. Undisturbed and exempt from
,rost this plant would have attained
height of twelve or fifteen feet and
lad bearing capacity of nearly one
oushel Of tomatoes of extraordinary
lie and quality. The largest speci-
men plucked from the patch in which
his grew weighed one pound and four
cen ounces. I
The secretary of state, Thursday v,
ssued a charter to the Vulcanized ,
'ulp company of Topeka, for fifty
ears, with paid up capital stock of
2 ZOO, 900, limited, nonassessable.
The directors are Walter Oakley, F. B.
ohnson, Il. G. Martin, c.. F. Currey
nd o. S. Shipley, all of Topeka. One
+ the provisions of the charter is that /
he Indebtedness of the company shall I
ot at any time exceed % per cent of a
he paid up capital stock. The COM c
any will have headquarters in Topeka /
lille factories will be established all c
yer tbs state. for the manufacture of 9
Il kinds Of pulp goods under the new
royalties. il
Broom Corn is getting to be quite a a
rop in Kansas. 1t has been discovered S
nat the soil and climate of central /
nd western Kansas are well adapted b
} its growth, and the returns are t
ute profitable. From the assessors S
,ports we learn the acreage for the Il
ear 1895 is about 134.42S acres, as Il
gainst s7,71S acres in 1894. or an in l
-ease of 55 per cent. The yield of
lis years crop will not be less than a
J, 900 tons, worth about four million s.
ollars. Cheyenne county leads in e
creage this year, as she did last, with
J. 23O acres, as against 12,016 in 1894. "
ne advantage in the broom-corn bus h
less is that there is little danger of h