The Globe-republican., 1897-08-12
n. b. kLAINE, Publisher.
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

DODGE CITY. NA>ShH
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.
lola is to have q new brick school
house.
A big camp meeting is to be held a,
Eliinwood.
Morton county farmers are hauling
broora corn and getting sac a ton.
Elm Mills is great summer resort
of Southwest Kansas Fishing and
politics.
The critical time for the Kansas
corn arrived three weeks ago and the
corn is still holding up its head look
ing for rain.
Barber county warrants are now
worth 100 cents on the dollar. A lot
of eastern Kansas counties should
learn how to do it
Chief Justice Doster's family will
soon move from Marion to Topeka.
have lived in one house in Marion for
twenty-seven years.
Hot winds have greatly damaged the
corn in Jewell county in the southwest
corner. The rest of the county can
stand a drouth for week longer A
northeast wind has greatly refreshed
the corn crop.
An Atchison young man who stays
up late seven nights in week and
dreams of his girl when asleep. is be-
ginning to look like typhoid fever
victim. Love occasionally scatters .
skeleton to bleach on its way.
The dry hot weather of last week
damaged all growing crops and the
corn supply of Reno county will not
exceed 20 per cent. In all the town
ships south of the two north tiers it
will average less than eight bushels to
the acre.
Republic county has had very hot
weather for a week and no rain for
eight days, but no hot winds Corn is
growing every day and the heat does
not seem to affect it. Prospects for an
enormous crop were never better. The
ground is in good condition.
A good rain fell over the southern
part of Greenwood county August End.
Crops in the southern part of the
county have not suffered from drouth
and will be equal to those of last year.
But little rain has fallen in the north
ern portion, and the crop in that sec
tion will be light.
The corn prospect in Brown county
and further west look very discourag-
ing. The weather is intensely hot and
hot winds are doing vast amount of
damage What promised the largest
corr crop in the history of this section
ten days ago has all faded away a.
thi. time. and unless cooler weather
comes at once the crop of corn will be
failure.
The general passenger agent Of the
B. & NJ. road has arrived to collect a
car load of grains, grasses, vegetables,
and other Decatur county farm cereals
which that company will put on cx-
hibition at the state fair in Iowa this
fall. The exhibits will also be maze
in many county fairs in that state.
The purpose is to attract land buyers
10 come west.
Walter Bros of the Denver Meat and
Live Stock company. who fed large
number of sheep in Norton county last
winter, write that they will be on
hand with double the sheep and sever
al hundred head of cattle this fall.
which they will winter and feed on the
Prairie Dog. adjoining the town of
Almena They also ask the farmers
to gather all the feed they can. Last
winter they fed about 10000 sheep In
Norton county.
Republic county has over zoo, 900
beat the record of any county in Kan.
sas. in 1897, in number of bushels.
Most of the counties in the northern
tier are IN tie corn belt this year. The
population of the county is over l6. 900.
The assessed valuation of railroad
property is $50. SCI, and the assessed
valuation of personal property is S440,.
e64, Of which S17e,4a5 is exempt OF
taxes. which is gain Of more than
SIS. 900 over 1896.
Shawnee county has the largest as
sessed valuation of any county in the
state and will pay into the state treas
ury as state taxes under the levy foz
1897 the sum of s5e,746. Wyardotte
county is next and will pay s4s. s.637.
Shawnee coufty paid $4,000 in 1896.
wyandotsc pa ; the same year s4S. SOS.
Haskell conrbA navs the smallest