The Globe-republican., 1898-11-10
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Some mighty fine prairie hay is be-
ing marketed in Kansas just at pres
ent.
Thousands of tons of baled hay is
being shipped oct of Kansas every
week
Just at the present time everything
is apparently on the boom in the Sun
flower state.
There is no getting around it. Win
ter is here. 1t is noted by the Gaylord
Herald that the price, of cobs has been
doubled.
A cattleman is authority for the
statement that not a drop of liquor is
sold in Long Island; and a cattleman
ought to be considered good authori-
ty.
New and substantial residences are
continually being erected in the Kan
sas towns, and there seems to be en-
ployment for everybody that wants to
work.
Students at Midland college in Atch-
ison have more than their share OF
grief. The faculty is against the prac-
tice of playing foot ball on Thanks
giving day.
The furniture stores are bearing
down hard with their advertisements
just now. This is the year that farm
ers will proceed to put a little slick
ness into their homes.
A Frankfort man has applied for a
patent on a washing machine. Wash
ing machines and ear couplers seem to
afford an attractive field for the wits
of those of an inventive turn of mind.
So many improvements have been
made by the Rock Island at Phillips
burg that the townfolk are half in.
clined to consider them as signs that
it is destined to be one of the main di-
vision points.
Lots of people living in western Kan
esas, where person can stand on the
prairie and see for miles in any direc-
ton, probably think it strange that
there is SO much uproar about the
''hedge law" in eastern counties.
The boys of the Twentieth were
greatly interested in watching the
movements of whale in the bay near
their camp for several hours one day
recently. 1t was one of the very few
things they have seen in that country
which they were unable to swear
could not be beaten in Kansas.
A CRATER is working Kansas farmers
on seed corn racket. He has some
immense ears of corn which he claims
were produced from seed recently dis
covered in Egypt. AS matter of fact
the ears were made up from slices of
common corn in such cunning man.
ner that it 10 hard to detect the fraud
probably not allowed. He sells his
valuable seed at from 10 to 25 cents a
grain, and at this rate of pay can east
ly afford to devote considerable time
to the manufacture of his bogus grain.
Frank Graves, living in Cherry Creek
township, Cheyenne county, has been
experimenting with growing sugar
beets this year, and q small patch that
he raised made the astonishing yield of
"a tons, s25 pounds to the acre. He
has sent a sample of the beets to the
experimental station at Manhattan,
where they will be tested. He has
one beet that weighs fifteen pounds,
but the size preferred for making SUI
gar is from one to two pounds. The
price usually paid is said to be 81. SO a
ton. This would soon open up won
derful field for the production of sugar.
where it is universally admitted that
we can raise the finest beets in the
world, and may lead to great results
in the near future.
Every time gold is discovered any
where on earth in any great quantities
there is hurrah and whoop which
is heard around the globe. Yet not a
great many people in Kansas are IA
miliar with the wealth producing pow
ers of the mining country in the
southeast part of the state. The coun
try around Galena is marvelously rich
in mineral wealth OF course it is not
shining gold Instead of that it is dull
colored lead and zinc, but they count,
just the same. Everyone in Kansas
has heard of the wonderful tales from
Cripple Creek, and not many months
ago great many Kansans returned
from that town bringing nothing but
tales with them. Few people in the
state, though, know that Bradstreet
classed Galena with Cripple Creek.