The Globe-republican., 1899-07-13

here is hut one rel headed man in
f, the state rer;,entiary.
The eastern part of tn state is food
ed by high water. caused by heavy
rains
II. il. Jordan. a Crawford county
! farmer. has pm. up 400 tons of hay this
season.
Atchison is preparing: to drill to find
the coal which it is believed underlies
the town.
The rect railway company, in
! Leavenworth is preparing to double
track its line.
Zinc has recently been discovered in
Elk county. The entire southeastern
/ part the state seems to be underlaid
with he ore.
The law compels all the road over
seers to remove cockieburrs, sunfiow-
ers and other injurious weeds from
the highways before July Is
Kansas girls are keeping up with
the crowd. The other day number
of girls gave a riding party in the
northern part of the state and all rode
astride.
The instal,ment bonds of the city of
Topeka have sold on the open market
f., Dc
bear but four and one-half per cent
| interest.
There are four elevators at Clifton
now. Clifton has big country tribu-
tary to it and is one Of the important
grain points on the Central Branch
railroad.
Billy Sterne, United States marshal,
has a stern duty to perform next
month. There are three prisoners at
the United States prison at Leaven.
worth, who are sentenced to be hang.
ed and Sternc is the official hangman.
The large Santa Fe reservoir at Mo-
line burst the other night and destroy
ed about sle 900 worth of wheat The
reservoir covered an extent of sixty
acres, and was thirty-five feet deep
The break was caused by an excep
tionally hard rain.
Those young ladies who have form.
ed society whose members are p!edg.
ed to marry only men who fought
with Funston ought to take steps to
limit their membership. There may
not be enough men in the regiment to
60 around unless such action is taken,
and this might lead to awkward com
plications.
Messrs. Bancroft and Jones have
been in Americus for the last three
weeks trying to establish creamery
and skimming station at that point
The success of the project is now as.
sured. The citizens and farmers in
the surrounding country have sub
scribed the So, 900 which was necessary
to be raised before the enterprise could
be success. No one individual was
allowed to subscribe over 500, and
forty-seven people were anxious to
purchase stock. A creamery will
prove fine thing for Americas and
the surrounding country. The loca-
ton of the building will be decided
upon in few days
If anybody thinks that Shawnee
county is too highly civilized to be
infested with coyotes, he is mistaken,
but if very many men do as we'll as
James Gordon, of Rossville township,
toward exterminating the pests they
will soon become scarcer than the pro-
verbal hens teeth. Mr. Gordon, who
is a farmer in Rossville township, sur
prised the county officials day or two
ago by appearing at the court house
with % coyote scalps, which he says
came from animals which he killed on
Cross creek, in the northern part of
Rossville township Some of the scalps
were exceedingly large and must have
belonged to good-sizcd specimens of
the coyote family.
There is cowboy evangelist work
ing in Kansas.
Reports from the corn belt of Kan
sas give promise that Kansas will have
the largest corn yield this year in its
history. The acreage is much larger
than usual Thousands of farmers
plowed up their wheat after it was
frozen out, and put the ground in
corn. The season has been somewhat
backward, but the corn crop is in fne
condition. Jewell and Smith coun-
ties, combined, are figuring on raising
90, ,OOO, 900 bushels
The state school fund has $500. .OcO