The Globe-republican., 1899-08-03

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! Everybody in Topeka is buying shale
land in Trego county, but nobody u III
admit it.
| The Kansas women who were sought
by Colonel Ingersoll aud who refused
4. him are now beginning to he heard
from.
/ From here and there in Kansas come
reports of fields of wheat that meas
ured 30 bushels to the acre: not many,
though.
The wounded Kansas soldiers arc il
/ San Francisco, on their way home.
They will be given grand reception
. when they arrive.
The difference between the corn
crop of this year and of 1859 is that
the farmers this year have granaries
/ in which to store it.
! 1t is estimated by some toiling stat
istician that it will take a railroad
train ! 200 miles long to haul out Kan
sas corn crop this fall.
/ The Dickinson county child who
swallowed glass of kerosene by mis-
take is not likely to be troubled with
mosquitoes for the remainder of the
season.
State Senator r. T.. Andrews of Par
dee has adopted four children from
/ the Soldiers Orphan home-two boys
and two girls, and ne says he wants
few more.
The state house grounds at Topeka
have been made to blossom like the
rose, and the inside of the capitol
looks good deal less like junk shop
than it used to.
The Leavcnworth woman who ask
ed the court to grant her separation
from her husband and to restore to
her the name of Gosling must have
been very unhappy.
Bob Ingersoll may be having an ex.
perience with extreme temperature,
but it is nothing compared to the man
who one of these days is compelled to
| ride ten miles between two hedge rows
on a country road in Kansas
A Kansas soldier by way of illus.
trating the civilizing influences that
are at work in Manila. says that when
the city surrendered to the Americans
there was not q saloon on the main
street of the city, but that five months
later he counted 432
Several Fort Scott boys who left
there year and half ago for the
Klondike are homeward bound. They
are bringing back no gold, but feel
thankful that they are permitted tc
get away alive, as they went through
some terrible experiences in their
hunt for wealth.
The Independence brick plant is now
giving employment, directly and in
directly, to about one hundred men in
working at the plant and getting out
the shale at Table Mound Work will
commence in few days on another
permanent up-draft kiln with capac-
/ ity of $50, 900 brick This will be the
| third kiln of this kind.
Near Admire and Allen many hogs
are dying and it is thought they
are sufferi ng with fever, but to the
southwark six or seven miles the dis
ease is pronounced hog cholera, and is
increasing rapidly. Several farmers,
not understanding the disease. in
stead of burying the animals. have
carted them to ravines or woods and
left them. Other hogs carried the
disease from place to place, scattering
it in hog yards over a large territory.
Cheap Rates to Pacific Coast via Santa Fe.
The Santa Fe are selling tickets to
San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego
and other California points at the very
cheap rate OF s3:. so
To Portland and points in Idaho and
Oregon $os.s s5 For particulars call
on or address, L. R DELANEY. Agt,
Wichita, Kans
The various committees of the Ole |
Settlers association of Marshall coun- !
ty, are preparing for grand reunion
August 16, II. 1s and 19. They will !
celebrate the twenty-first birthday OF
the association this year.
1t is claimed by some that air-slacis.
Cd lime, sprinkled around field OF
corn, will deter the chinch bugs from
invading it 1t only takes about q
bushel to go around a quarter. and il
it accomplishes the work as we'll as il
is claimed, it is a cheap shut-out for
pests
The rainy season seems to have in
terfered with the congressional hostil.
tiles in the First Kansas district
State Treasurer Grimes has issued 3