The Globe-republican., 1898-05-26
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

up q little Dewey celebration of thei
own.
The corn in Kansas is growing YER
last just now, and much of it need
blowing again.
The total precipitation of sunshin
for southern Kansas in the last montl
has been about one inch.
One Topeka firm while the volun
teers were all in Topeka sold then
$1,000 worth of groceries.
An Allen county delegate to the OF
tawa convention claims to be the orig
inator of the Manila rope badge.
A Kansas paper announces that q 10
cal doctor has enlisted in Uncle Sans
service providing he can get in the
''hospital corpse"
The potato fields of the Kaw bottom,
between Lawrence and Kansas City,
are soaked in water and there is some
danger of the crop.
There are at least four circuses
working in Kansas now, not counting
the merry-go-rounds, shooting CALLER
les and political booms.
Clarence L. Barron, of Kingman
county, passed two examinations last
week, one for admission to the bar and
another when he enlisted.
J. B. Fecht, an old German cabinet
maker, died at Woodbine last week
and was buried in coffin which he
made himself twenty years ago.
The hard-tack the Kansas boys will
get in Cuba will be stamped "Remem-
Der the Maine" 1t was not necessary
to stamp the pies they got in Topeka
to get them to remember Topeka.
There was picnic at Dighton last
week when grain dealers announced
that they would pay dollar bushel
for wheat, and the local dealer got out
and cleaned up the county at s1.12 per
bushel.
What fame George Matthews, the
Wichita rainmaker, could have attain
ed If he had waited to spring his sys-
tenn this year instead of 1896. He
would have no trouble in finding the |!
conditions favorable.
Mad dogs are so common in the Rest
neighborhood in Wilson county this
year that people pay no attention to
them. They have discovered that if
mad dogs are let alone they will soon
run themselves to death.
The report of Grain Inspector Culver
for April shows that the income of the
department was $500 less than the ex-
pense. This is the dull season and the
department has a surplus sufficient to
leave comfortable balance at the end
Of the year.
Wheat and alfalfa are doing well in
Chase county. This has been a good
week for work, and corn planting and
replanting has been pushed. Apples,
cherries and peaches promise good
.rops. Early potatoes and garden do
ng well.
Before going to the war Major "Bill' Ii
Brown OF the twenty-first regiment ar
'anged his affairs in the interest of his
wife. If he should fall she will have
and money to the value of ,
$4,000, to say nothing of life insur- 4;
NEE. There is one thing he wants his
children to inherit, he saws. and that =
the honor of being able to say that
heir father was at the siege of Hav-
ma,
A line may be drawn from the mouth '
# the Rio Grande river north through Q
Texas, Indian territory. Oklahoma. 6
Nebraska and the Dakotas 7
nd it will be found to be more or less +
rid west of said line, while east of it
more or less rain falls every year. {
here would be very little or no rain i,
rest of said line were it not for the
ull in the northern winds. which +
reates vacuum which cross currents 7
+ air rush in to fill, and with them O
Moisture is taken and precipitated in h
he form of rain. !
In the last year or 50 quite number r
4 Kansas cities have organized COM u
,crciai clubs which have been effect S
We in promoting the legitimate growth r
4 the town. Are there not enough of v
hesc clubs in the state to form q state &
rganization, not only for state work t.
ut as well for mutual advantage? If S;
UGH plan is feasible the initiative Il
hould come from the Topeka CONNER Il
ial club. or perhaps from the Topeka 81
nd Pi:,Sburg clubs together. as they a
re the two larges. organizations. If p
easible the plan would be easy of ar r.
angement if some commercial club 81