The Globe-republican., 1897-05-27
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.


The city council at Ellinwood il
about to charge license on air ships.
There il already tax on schoonerA
Chris Allahn of Buffalo. N. Y, and
Loretta Pugh of Pineville. Mo-, met by
appointment A. Paola the other day
and were married.
The corn crop in Western Kansas il
looking well for this season of year
and promises to make . good yield un-
less some unknown misfortune yet be.
falls it.
Frank More, one of the prominent
farmers of Sedgwick county, says we
are having too much rain for the corn,
but that oats and wheat are looking
very fine
The state of Kansas having failed ia
comply with the terms of the deed, A.
w. Stubs claims the forty acres which
he gave to the irrigation commission
two years age.
Atchison threatens to infiict ball
nine upon the state, and worse than
that it proposes to work up league.
There is nothing SO wearisome as .
jimscrew ball team.
Returns from eighteen townships
and cities in Phillips county show a
gain in population during the past year
of more than 800. In Kirwin the gain
is an even hundred.
The officers of the north central Kan
las soldiers' reunion association have
fixed Concordia for the place of the re-
union and the date set for September
eth to 10th inclusive.
Secretary Stone of the Chicago board
Of trade says Kansas raised more
wheat in 1892 than was ever raised in
any state in any one year. The yield
that year was 20, sol 200.
Discussions caused the surrender of
the charter of the Masonic lodge at
Cedarvale but the boys have gotten
together since and are now asking for
a renewal of the charter.
The postoffices of Sumner county
have been handed over to Andy Rich
ards. A great many envious rivals
down there allege that he has not
fp{o,,lc ono,,ob e., S1l <l,nv,o
In the months of January, February,
March and April of this year, A. Linn,
butter and egg dealer, paid ont to
Osborne county farmers wives for their
surplus butter and eggs over $1,000.
A short grass man who moved his
family to Topeka expecting to cut q
dash in society has run short CT money
and will move to Leayenworth, where
poker is both fashionable and popular.
1t is said that the wheat crop this
year will be enormous. Also various
kinds of fruits are at present indicat-
ing good yields In fact everything is
in the best of growing condition and
the average farmer is contented and
happy.
The contract has been let for the ex-
tension of the electric street railway
from Pittsburg to Fleming, a stretch
of three miles of new track. 1t is ex-
pected that Robert Slmons, the owner,
will then extend the line another three
miles to connect with the Weir CITY
ine
The Belle Springs company paid its
creamery patrons for April milk May
18th. The price dropped = cents 4
pound and patrons received Is cents
instead of II for March and IS for Jan
nary and February. The other cream
cries of Saline county will pay about
the same.
People who have studied the situa-
ton say that as Topeka. Atchison and
Leavenworth are all in one congress
sional district now and a candidate
from congress must be selected from
the three, that that corner of the state
cannot stand the strain and that the
guy ropes will break.
For several years it has been aprar.
emit that it was but question of time
until the exorbitant prices demanded
by the manufacturers of BICYCLES
would have to take a tumble That
this theory has now become a condi-
ton is apparent to those who have
investigated the strictly high grade
wheel just placed on the market BY
the Harrah & Stewart Mfg. Co., of
Des Moines, Ia.
The eighth annual convention of the
Christian churches of the Second dis
trict, embracing nine counties, will be
held at Ottawa May "a. IS and &c.
There are AZ churches in the district
and it is expected that they will all be
represented at the convention. Rev.