The Globe-republican., 1899-07-06

Corning IS ate: 4 creamery and
cheese factory.
the grave of Frank Everest in the
cemetery at A;ehsson.
If the present. prospects are fulfilled.
Kansas will this year produce the
largest corn crop in her history.
Fresh wind has recently been pump
ed into that old story about the ex-
tension Of the Central Branch to Den.
yer.
At Ottawa a few days ago young
lady was fined S. and costs-about 81:
altogether-for stealing e4-cent wire
hustle.
The alfalfa crop is good this year
Most of the first crop has been cut
and the second crop is ssming on with
flattering prospects.
Kansas farmers are talking of dollar
wheat already. The first car of new
wheat on the Kansas City market sold
! for seventy-thrce cents.
Nortonville has \ city park. The
, citizens were not satisfied with its ap-
pearance, and last week turned out
,, en- masse and improved it
Governor Stanley will not worry
, over the position the convicts in the
pen have taken against him. He has
company. 1t is understood that most
of the inmates cherish the same hard
feelings against the judges and juries
which figured in the trials that result
ed in convictions and pen sentences
A man in Cove county by the name
of Clark was bitten by huge rattle
snake last week. He Immediately pro-
ceeded to fill his hide with Kansas
whisky and had the laugh on the
snake. A prominent exchange thinks
that if there is anything calculated to
make rattlesnake take to the woods
it is Whit of Kansas whisky.
That the majority of township as
SCISSORS in Kansas still flagrantly VIC.
late their oaths of office is clearly evil
denced by the assessment returns now
coming to the state auditors Office
from the various county clerks. The
state law provides that all personal
and real property shall be assessed at
its cash value, and the township as
SCISSORS are prohibited from getting
together each year and fixing fcti-
tious valuation on personal property
of from 25 to 33 per cent of its actual
value. Yet the returns now coming
in show that the assessment laws have
been as openly violated during this
year as they every were before.
Wheat harvest has been completed
in southern Kansas, and never in the
history of the country did the farmers
have a better week to harvest their
wheat The wheat turned out much
better than was expected few weeks
intended TO pillow under nave produced
considerable wheat The yield this
year will be up to the average. While
it was not as heavy on the ground as
it is some years, the heads were filled
better. Most of the wheat will he
threshed out of the shock because so
much of it has been injured in the past
years. while in the stack, by the driv-
ing rains. The oats harvest has COM
menced, and will be under full head
way all over Southern Kansas in few
days. The oats crop will be the larg-
est for several years. Corn has gener-
ally been laid by, and is higher than a
mans head in many fields. The rains
have done it a world of good, and il
promises big yield.
Cheap Rates to Pacific Coast via Santa Fe.
The Santa Fe are selling tickets to
San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego
and other California points at the very
cheap rate OF S32 So
To Portland and points in Idaho and
Oregon S2s.s5. For particulars call
on or address, L. r. DELANEY, Agt,
: Wichita, Kans
Residents along the Caney Valley
line want the Missouri Pacific to ex.
tend the road south through the
Usage country and Oklahoma. 1t
would open up section which needs
railroad facilities
Just as soon as 1000 lib airy tickets
are sold at Leavenworth the managers
of the enterprise will hold the concert
where the prizes will be given out.
Kansas City beat every other town to
this scheme. and succeeded in working
it harder than it will ever be worked
again.
A Kansas man last week sod 100
shorthorn cattle in Kansas City for