The Globe-republican., 1899-11-09
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Wholesale thieving is reported q
Pittsburg.
The Burlington creamery made II
first shipment of butter last week.
Lebanon, Smith county, is celebrating
the completion of a new opera house.
The Seventh district federation O
woman's clubs will meet in Wellington
November 8, and 10.
At Alton, says the Empire, the win,
blew away six loads of dirt which ha,
just been hauled on to the street.
Colonel Lewis of Humboldt is dead
He founded the Presbyterian church
there, one of the first in the state
man in cart drawn by six dog
recently passed through western Kan
sas. He was bound for the klCadike
The seventeenth annual session o.
the North Central Kansa, Teachers
association will be held IN Manhattan
November 30.
The old Methodist church at Round
Prairie has been torn down and the
pulpit was sold for use as bar in a
Leavenworth saloon.
Fairview has had a bad fire in which
six buildings were destroyed, causing
a loss of SIS, 900. The Fairview Courier
is among the losses.
Seventy-two cars of cattle were un-
loaded at Phillipsburg in week The
cattle are feeders, to be prepared for
market in that vicinity.
Mr. Larzelere, sheriff of northeast
ern Kansas, who was after the bandits
there last week, did not lie down or
sleep for a period of 81 hours.
The Wichita postoffice stands next
to thoso of Denver and Omaha in the
amount of business transacted as an
agency for the smaller postoffices.
Republic county has 10000 hogs
credited to it by the state agricultural
board outside of those which are emu
merated on the registration books.
J. j. Whitman of Lyon county won a
prize of 500 for furnishing the Mary
land state experiment station with the
best strawberry plants. There were
60 competitors from all over the United
States
Twenty-Five tourist sleepers, two
standard sleepers and four baggage
cars made up the equipment of the
three trains bearing the Twentieth
Kansas soldiers from San Francisco to
Topeka.
7. E. Hocl- TT & Son, the melon seed
growers and contractors of Caven, are
preparing for big shipment of seeds
this week. They will probably have
$4,000 pounds of melon seeds on the
market.
Lon Gill killed an Eagle near Mus.
cOtah which measured feet 10 inches
from tip to tip and weighed II pounds.
Atchison millincrs would have paid $40
for its feathers, but the bird was
mounted.
The Santa Fe has adopted new
clock dial to be put on station clocks.
The minute marks are all plainly num-
bered from to 60. The change is ex-
pected to be a safeguard against mis-
readings.
Atchison Globe: The i. & VI. Com
pany wants fifty men to work on its
track, in the vicinity of Dawson. out
cannot get them. Men will be paid
$50 per day. Still, the town is full
of men who say they cannot get work.
Five East Atchison men agreed to 90.
but everyone of them backed ont be-
fore train time.
Kansas occupies better position in
the nation today than she ever did be-
fore. The high-class publications.
Harper's Weekly and publications of
that order, have given more space to
Kansas this year than in all years pre-
viOus.
In the present year 80 carloads of !
brick have been shipped into Abilene |
and used for building walks, mostly
in the residence portion of town. More |
walks than this indicates have been
laid for some brick were already in |
stock.
According to the report of F. L.
Brown, clerk of the United States dis
trict court, there have been 3a5 bank
ruptcy cases fled in the federal court
for the Kansas district since the pass
sage of the bankruptcy act.
A new tile floor has been put down
in the dining room at the reform
school at Topeka. 1t was badly need
ed
The Lincoln roller mills have in
creased. the capacity for making -four