The Globe-republican., 1899-10-19
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

AAC 4WeuLlcLn Kansas cOIucS HOAuc
with a record of twenty battles fought.
The Santa Fee eating houses will in
the future give passengers IS minutes
Tor meals.
There are $40 students now attending
Che Agricultural College; $50 more than
ever before
A Ford county nan who had a 20
acre field of broom corn last week sold
the crop in the field for $3.50.
The Kansas supreme court has decid-
ed that the special fire tax levied
agaipss railroads in some of the western
counties is illegal.
A Hiawatha man has an orchard of
eighteen acres from which he has sold
$50 barrels Of apples this year, netting
him nearly $50 per acre.
The boys at the Friends University,
Wichita, are highly elated over their
football team. Constant additions to
the team is making it strong.
At Seneca, Kansas, the Ringing
brothers. circus men, saw two horses
which pleased them and they whaclzed
down $500 and carried them off
Mrs. General Funston performs re-
markedly on the violin, her fathers
favorite instrument. Her two sisters
are also known in musical circles.
When Governor Stanley started out
on the harbor at Frisco the battleship
Iowa, which was there, gave him the
governors salute of thirteen guns.
Lawrence is pushing on. Mayor
Gould signed the street paving ordi-
nance this week, and Winner has a
force of men at work on the extension
of the street railway line.
Kansas now has sixty-four private
banks and ninety-eight national banks.
The latest private bank installed by
Commissioner Bnedenthal is the Kaw
Valley State Bank of Eudora.
college. Wichita, will spend most of the
college year in the east. He is en-
deavoriug to raise $4,000 for the en-
dowment fund to meet the offer of
Millionaire Pierson of Chicago to do
nate like sum.
The rooms of the state library which
are to be used for the banquet, will be
darkened and artifciallv lighted with
red, white and blue electric lights.
There will be two orchestras which
will occupy raised platforms at either
end of the hall and music will hold
sway during the banquet hour.
A Topeka man who deals in walnut
logs and lumber says he ships his stuff
to Hamburg, Germany, because the
freight from Topeka to Hamburg is
less than the freight from Topeka to
New York. After paying all expenses,
his profits, he says, are greater than if
the logs were sold in this country.
Seven years ago baby was left at
an Atchison shoe makers home. The
shoemaker decided to keep the child,
but in year or so proceedings were
brought by some unknown person in a
local justice court to gain possession of
it. Occasionally woman whose name
the shoemaker never learned, appear
ed and made good deal of the baby,
but her visits ceased after year or so.
and nothing has been heard of the
strange woman for FIVE or six wears.
The child is now seven years. old and
bears the shoemaker's name, and is
known as his child. She shows indica-
lions of growing up into beautiful
woman.
Mrs. Funston is an Oakland. Cali
fornia, girl, and because of this the
women of Oakland entertains the
whole Kansas regiment to dinner.
Charles S. Reed. once county attor-
ney of Wilson county, has been nomi-
mated by the Republicans of Sandusky,
Ohio, for judge of the court of common
pleas.
The petition of Almena lodge to be
allowed to solicit. aid for an Iowa
brother living there, was adopted al
most unanimously by the Grand Lodge
]. o. of o. F.
Word comes from Galena that the
young ladies of that section who band
ed themselves together and agreed not
to marry any but members of the
Twentieth Kansas regiment will at
tend the Topeka reception to the regi-
ment in body.
A La Crosse man Jared the feelings
of the members of the loca! band few
days ago by giving the organization 81.
1t was the first time anyone in the
town had ever come forward with anv
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