The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1899-10-12
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST
The Frisco has decided to build a fins
hew depot at Galena.
The Forty-fourth regiment has it!
full quota enlisted, and they are In
camp.
There are three Kansas men on the
University of Pennsylvania football
team this year.
Topeka sold its new auditorium bond,
to the state school fund. They are :
per cent bonds.
Rural free delivery service will be es
tablished on October 9, at Pittsburg
with two carriers.
Grain Inspector Clark of Atchison ha,
been inspecting an average of 20 cars
day for some time
A Topeka dealer says his sales amour.
to 700 pianos this year, $50 being SOLD
in Shawnee county.
A corn stalk on exhibition at the Os
borne county fair measured ten feet
from the ground to the first ear
Peter Staab of Catherine, Ellis county
says that the grasshoppers have taken
most of his 275 acres of new wheat.
The board of managers of the Nation.
al Military Homes is at Leavenworth
looking into the Klondike matter.
George r. Peck, our George, is being
mentioned by Chicago papers as a pos.
sible candidate for governor of Illinois
Leavenworth proposes to hold a cele-
bration when the trolley line between
there and Kansas City is opened for
traffic.
Kansas hay stacks appear to be more
sociable this year than usual. At least,
they are standing closer together in the
fields than is customary.
There wasn't the rush to the Kansas
City show this fall that has formerly
been noticeable in Kansas; too many
good shows at home this season.
There was a public sale in Wilson
county recently which amounted to
S1,1OO, and only one note was given;
just one little dinky note for s35.
It is said that in 1880 corn was 50
cents bushel in Kansas; in 1890 it was
so cents, and a great many people ex-
pect to see the price high again in
1900.
The secretary of the state board of
horticulture has issued a report in
which it is shown that the apple crop
in Kansas this year will amount to AZ
per cent, s per cent less than half
crop.
Leavenworth, Kan, stands at the
head of American cities in the shipment
OF apples. Indeed more apples are
shipped from Leavenworth than from
any other point on either side of the
Atlantic ocean.
The Lydon Current Remark tells of
man who recently sold ZOOS head of
steers, receiving Sc per cwt. at home.
The stock filed fifty-nine cars and was
shipped direct to Europe, the total
value being So, 900.
The banquet to be given to the Twen-
tieth Kansas will be held in the new
state library room in the capitol, the
handsomest room in the West and
large enough to accommodate the entire
regiment and more.
The material is on the ground and
work has already commenced at the
Rock Island shops at Horton on 300
new box cars which constitute the ad-
vance delivery of the order of ZOO new
cars placed with these shops a few days
ago.
Wichita's public schools opened with
1910, a gain Of 40 over the first month
of 1898.
James J. McFarlan, former postmas-
ter of Clyde, Kan,, was arrested at his
home in Chicago, charged with embez-
element of government funds amount
ing to s465, for which he was recently
indicted by a federal grand jury at To-
peka.
The register at Kansas University
shows q total $50 of native birds in
Kansas. OF this number Chancellor
Frank Snow has put 17s of record.
The people of Morland, Graham coun-
~, give a barbecue dinner to all visi- |
tors on the 10th of October, the date be- |
ing the twelfth birthday of the place.