The Globe-republican., 1899-12-21


out properly with streets and alleys.
| Sherman county has left good mum
Der of chances to locate homesteads
The Christian Scientists of Wichits
chartered train to take them to at
tend lecture at Ell Dorado.
| The seventeenth annual meeting o.
the county clerks of Kansas will bt
held at Wichita, December % and 90.
There is a movement in Kansas and
Oklahoma to erect a monument to Ed.
Hewins on his old ranch near Oedarvale
There are "a, 900 sheep on one ranch
in Pottawotamie county. Twenty-fou,
men are employed at $50 month and
board
There are five Kansas counties with
less than 500 inhabitants: Grant, with
4O5: Greeley, 464; Haskell, 434; Morton.
3O5; Stanton, 294.
The Hutchinson and Southern branch
trains will use Wichita branch main
track between railroad junction east
and west of Kingman.
George w. Martin now secretary of the
Kansas Historical society, has the best
private collection of Kansas books and
pamphlets in existence.
The A. o. U w. lodge at Wamego,
together with others who are not men,
bers, harvested and cared for 10 acres
of crops for a sick brother.
O. E. Pritchett. brakeman on the
Rock Island road, was run over at Man
kato, and had both legs cut off. He
died few hours afterward.
There is no spot on earth, SO far as
reported, that has natural roads equal
to those in the great valley of the Ar
kansas in southwestern Kansas.
The Kansas Retail Grocers and Gen.
eral Merchandise association will ask
the legislature to pass more effective
laws for the collection of debts.
Merchants of Maple Hill have signed
an agreement which provides that
they will not sell any goods on Sunday
nor allow their clerks to do so.
The auctioneers of Kansas have Or
ganized a state association with the
view of securing legislation requiring
to have state license.
Colonel Alexander Warner has closed
his Kansas career by selling his home
place at Baxter Springs. He will re-
turn to his old home in Connecticut.
The Kansas Experiment station dis
the establishment of beet
sugar factories in Kansas, believing
that Kansas is better adapted to other
products
Information has been received by
he Santa Fe officials that from present
appearances next years shipments of
If livestock all along the system would
De larger than it has ever been.
The air shaft to the penitentiary
,oal mine has been repaired and the
nine is again in operation with a ca
,acity of twenty cars week. This is
lot sufficient to keep the state irstitu-
ions in coal.
The gold medal given by Victor Hugo
md other French Republicans to the
widow of John Brown is in the museum
# the Kansas State Historical society.
With it is the original letter of trans
mission i'll Hugo's handwriting.
Rev. Walter Clarke, rector of st.
ohn's Episcopal church at Abilene for
everal years, has received call to be |
anon in the cathedral of Spokane,
Wash. and leaves this week. He will |
lso teach classics in the college of |
spokane.
1t is estimated by Governor Stanley
hat at least SlOO, 900 can be saved an
lually by the adjustment of useless
'ffices and he is likely to advocate re-
'ision of the laws for the purpose of !
that result, in his mes
age to the next legislature.
Governor Stanley went to Washing
on as member of the committee ap-
'ointed by the president to make ar
for celebrating the centen-
lial of the establishment of the United
states government at Washington.
State Oil Inspector S. O. Spencer
urned 81 1874 into the state treasury,
which he collected as fees for the in
pection of oil and gasoline for the
month of November. The expense of
his department for the
month was $514. This left q surplus
or the state of $3.50.
7. c. Price, Judge of the Thirty-frst.
judicial district, covering eleven coun-
les of southwest Kansas. has announ-
ed his intention to resign and remove