The Globe-republican., 1898-02-24
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.
KANSAS

KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Kansas spring has been broken BY q
sold wave.
Nickerson 10 talking creamery. A
good thing and sure thing.
The Salina base ball club has been
organized for the coming season. Sa-
lima is one of the sportiest towns il
the state.
The seed stores In Kansas are doing
more business at the present time than
ever before noted in the history of the
state at this season of the year.
The Cowley county bar has passed
resolutions for the new federal court
Unless Topeka can be pulled off the
perch, the division will not be made.
Topeka is the sole trouble.
An Atchison girl is going to the
Paris exposition dressed in the costume
Of the corn carnival French people
win point to her and say: ''See that
native from Kansas"
II one of those genuine Kansas biz.
yards should should come down upon
US from the north, it would almost de-
lay our next crops. But the average
Kansan has lived to learn to expect
anything.
At q meeting of the Cowley county
bar February 10th resolutions were
passed endorsing the division of Kan
sas into two judicial districts and cop
les were forwarded to representatives
In congress. The vote was unanimous.
Henry Martens, a Russian, is visit
ing friends in Harvey county and says
quite good sized colony of his coun-
trymen will locate in Harvey county.
Martens is the advance man and is
looking around for suitable property
for the others.
In a review of Kansas fakes it is I'M.
just to include the night alr-ship of
last summer. A particular white light
which was not a star did float about in
the lower air in several portions of
KansaA It was never explained. Peo-
pie who saw it, and they number hun
dreds, do not like to hear it called .
fake.
A community four miles east of Pea
body is afflicted with black measles.
Two deaths have occurred in one
household small child of Mr.. and
Mrs Henry Stovall died last week and
later Mrs. Stovall died. Six other
members of the family have been
afflicted but are now convalescent The
public school has been dismissed for
the present.
Madison is excited over the coal and
oil prospects at that place. j. F. Stein
tori and E D. Martindale were APP
pointed a committee to visit lola and
zee how things were done. They made
. report that struck the people favora-
bly, and in short time sixteen people
subscribed 500 apiece, while others
put their names down for smaller
sums. A we'll will be dug Immediately
and it is very likely that Madison will
be an oil center before many months.
The Arkansas City Milling company,
short time ago, sent a big shipment
of flour to Europe. 1t was handled on
commission. This shipment proved SO
satisfactory to the European agents
that they have placed an order-buy-
ing outright-with the milling COM
pany for 100000 pounds of -four to be
shipped as soon as possible. The mill
ing company is now getting the ship
ment ready. The Santa Fe will take
it south and the -four will be loaded on
steamers at Port Arthur.
The waterworks water at Independ-
ence has reached . density that may
we'll raise . question as to whether it
is fluid or solic. For irrigating
purposes it cannot be excelled, rs q
piece of poor land well drenched with
. this water would become very fertile
in a short time. The surprising thing
about it is that it can still be forced
through the mains and drawn from
hydrants. Of course for culinary and
domestic purposes it is entirely use
less The receivers are not able "a
give any assurance of anything better
n the near future.
The Beatrice Creamery company,
Haskell and Boswell of Beatrice and
Lincoln, Nebraska, has just perfected
arrangements with five towns along
the Burlington between Orleans and
Atwood for the erection of sub-croam.
les. Atwood has the building enclosed,
Herndon the foundation laid, Danbury,
Wilsonville and Beaver City. Neb., un.
der process of erection. The machin'