The Globe-republican., 1897-08-19
Kansas ITEMS OF INTEREST.

KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Chanute has ''gas to burn" a1d
new telephone system is being put in.
The city council at Newton proposes
to wipe out the joints. not to license
them, as reported.
The new bridge over the Kaw river
at Topeka will be opened on the Goth.
One span is 1.5 feet wide.
Hutchinson has new Santa Fe de-
pot. over which the populace rejoices
like girl with a new bicycle.
Sheffield ingalls,, youngest SON of ex-
Senator Ingalls,, has passed an exam
ination for admission to the bar.
The Santa Fe will this year expend
$152, 900 in new buildings over the sys-
tenn. Topeka gets s35, 900 for new car
shops.
Quite a number of Mennonites are
preparing to leave Kansas for the low
malarial lands between Houston and
the gulf
Sexton, of Leavenworth, has won the
title of champion wing shot of Kansas,
at Emporia, killing twenty-five live
birds straight.
The Southern Kansas Reunion asso-
citation will hold its annual reunion at
Logan Park. Cherryvale, Kansas, Aug
ust 16 to 81 inclusive
Republic county has over 100000
acres planted in corn and expects to
beat the record of any county in Kan.
sas in number of bushels.
The life of Kansas is one hundred
fold greater than the life of Kansas
corn. The breath of the hot winds kill
the corn, but it takes the breath of the
hot wind liar to kill Kansas
Sheridan county had a swarm of
''snake feeders" last week. They were
at first thought to be grasshoppers
They were proba bly, enroute to Kansas
City to feed the Jag" snakes.
The flow tow factory at Fort Scott,
which has been idle for several weeks.
has resumed work. The company has
several enormous stacks of flax straw
at this plant and is buying all it can
get at 81. 90 ton.
Recently thousands of fish went over
the dam at the mill at Junction City,
and as many people as happened to be
there pulled out with their hands all
they cared to carry away. Muddy wa
ter from heavy rains almost smothered
the fish.
At meetir g of the Greenwood coun-
ty cattlemen's association on August 9,
it was decided to resist the order of
the Kansas railroads providing that
live stock should be shipped by weight
hereafter instead of by the carload as
heretofore.
A few days, ago during a thunder
storm in Wilson county. George Cordell
was killed by lightning while going
into cyclone cellar. His wife and
son, who had preceded him into the
supposed place of safety were knocked
scnseless
On account of the heavy movement
of wheat. three new telegra pin offices
have been opened on the southern d.
vision of the Santa Fe. The new offices
are ut Wilmore and Anness on the Au-
gusta branch, and Lawrie on the main
line in Oklahoma.
The Barton salt works, near Hutch
inson, will ere long be turning out 500
barrels of salt every day. There are
at present five watts in operation with
capacity of 100 barrels per day. Car
penters are at work on three new watts
of the same dimensions as the other
five. I2x133 feet, and of the same ca
pacity.
A Butler county girl, aged IA. watch
ed young man wash 4 buggy in the
Walnut river. He was at the top of it
and slipped and fell and sank. He did
not rise and the girl plunged in and
dragged him unconscious to the bank,
where she rolled him to free his lungs
from water. A moment later the lit
lite heroine discovered that he was dead.
His head had struck projecting nut
on the buggy wheel and fractured his
skull
Our Indian neighbors believe that \
great celestial giant makes the rain:
that he never sends rain to a field
when dead, urburied human is near
The rain-naker makes lightning by
striking two huge fiint-stones toge.h-
er. His lightning strikes so many
trees on account of the snakes that are
hid in the the hollow tree trunks.