The Globe-republican., 1899-07-20
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.
The late rains have made a good
corn crop
Nearly every town in central Kan
sas is going to have street fair this
fall.
The papers over the state are begin
ming to have stories about enormous
wheat yields
The Crawford opera house at Leav-
enworth has been ordered sold for the
mortgage.
1t is said that the prettiest home in
the town of Sedgwick is occupied by
an old bachelor
One Crawford county man has put
up more than four hundred tons of
hay this season
Sumner county has surplus in its
treasury and is investing the money
in township bonds.
It is estimated that the recent wreck
on the Salina & Oakley branch will
cost the Union Pacific $4,000
The state of Kansas will produce
tons of lucious grapes The vines are
trembling beneath their great weight,
and no one has yet ventured an esti.
nation of the yield.
Fl. S. Lands, who recently gave up
the Office of warden of the penitentiary,
has taken his family and removed
from Lansing to Galena where he will
engage in mining and prospecting.
Mr.. Lands formerly lived in Barber
county but the probabilities are that
he will made his future home in south
eastern Kansas Lands and ex-gov-
ernor Leedy have some mining inter-
ests together in the mining district of
Kansas
The business men of Lebanon will
their annual celebration and picnic,
October l, which they have kept up
ever since the completion of the Rock
Island road to the town. Improve
ments aggregating about SIS, 600 have
been made during the first six months
of the year. Many other improvements
will follow the last half of the year,
as the prospects for "a corn crop are the
best in the history of Smith county.
Anderson Smith, prominent and
well to do stochmaE living five miles
northwest of Erie, accidentally shot
killed himself on the morning of July
IL He had been shooting some yell
low hammers that had been bothering
around his barns, and had started to
the house to put away his shot gunt
When going through the gate his gun
was discharged in some manner, the
load talk -ng effect in his side. killing
him instantly and setting his clothes
on fire.
In order to determine how much
water the herd of thirteen calves at
the Kansas agricultural college would
drink, the water given them for a
week was weighed. and put in barrel
with an attachment for letting it out
rs fast as needed. In the seven days
the thirteen calves drank SOS pounds
of water, or an average of eight lbs a
day. The weather during this time
was warm for the first three days and
cooler the last four days In addition
to the water, the calves got an aver
age of IA pounds of skimmilk besides
grain and hay. This experiment shows
that calves need water in addition to
their milk ration; 1t also shows that
they like it often and not so much at
Tina Always see that it is fresh
and clean.
Il p. Scott, assistant secretary of
.he state labor bureau, has returned
from Lawrence, where he notified con-
tractors engaged on the Kansas uni
versity chemistry building to permit
no further violations of the eight hour
law.
Home grown pears are going to be
very cheap this season. The trees are
loaded with all they can bear. and the
quality of the fruit will be first-class.
This is the first season in many years
than Kansas has produced good crop
of pears
The assessors in the different coun'
ties of the state do not agree as to the
value of personal property by whole
lot In Stafford county new buggy
is worth 81. 95, according to the asses
sor, while in Leavenworth county j,
is held at S1S.5
The kissing bug has reached Kansa: