The Globe-republican., 1899-06-15
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTFRE5E

Wheat straw will be short this year,
the farmers say.
A Leavenworth man 65 years old
died of measles last week.
Topeka has begun its fight foT collar
gas and viii also buy the water works.
Ex-Governor Morril shipped 100 fat
steers to Kansas City one day last
week.
The rains during this month is just
what were needed to rush the crops
along.
Six Kansas sheriffs have lost their
lives while making arrests during the
past year.
Preparations are in progress at
Downs for the annual hot time on the
eth of July.
It has been found that the Kansas
chigger this year swims and carries q
sword and a bayonet
1t took $1,000 worth of glass to re-
pair the damage done by the hail
storm in Marion and vicinity.
One teacher out of eighty-fonr ex-
amined at Blue Rapids succeeded in
securing a first grade certificate.
Nearly ton and half of butter
was made at the Garnett creamery
last week; the largest weekly run yet
made.
Kansas has lost quite a number of
head of stock as we'll as other proper
ty during the past two weeks. Light
ming did it.
Fort Scott is after Spanish cannon,
and thinks it ought to have no trouble
in securing one, as it is one of the few
towns where a national cemetery is
located.
There was an increase of ISL in the
population of Ford county the past
year Ford county is we'll down on
the list Its total population ct the
last count was 4,5O1.
A $4,000 Catholic church is in course
of construction at Upton, settlement
in southwest Mitchell county, twenty
miles from a railroad. The corner
stone of the edifice was laid recently.
This will be a magnificent structure.
J. B. Lynch, live stock agent of the
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe railway
in Colorado and New Mexico, reports
great suffering among cattle in his
territory on account of the drouth.
There has been no rain out there for
twelve months and in consequence
cattlemen are without water on the
ranges. In northern New Mexico cat
tie are dying and stockmen are ship
ping their herds out of the country.
Colorado stockmen also have begun to
ship their stock, the most of them to
Kansas
hC VA IL ASi0S AA IhO SASAhtCy Va
Manhattan are suffering greatly from
pest known as the corn worm that
has made its appearance this spring.
The worm is described as being three
fourths of an inch in length, with a
very hard shining skin of light
brown color. In fields that are badly
infected the worms are found from one
to hall dozen in a hill. They bur.
row into the corn and in some in.
stances completely devour the tender
sprouts. This pest is recognized as an
exceedingly difficult one. to combat,
and the Kansas experiment station
recommends that the corn be plowed
up and the ground replanted as the
best possible way to get rid of the
pest
In southern Kansas no more rain is
needed to mature the wheat. The rains
have been So heavy the wheat would
have rusted had it rot been for the
drying winds.
Governor Stanley has addressed 9
letter to Secretary Alger, of the wal
department, asking him for cannon
captured in the Spanish war for Wich
tia. He has also Endorsed the applica
tion of the Kansas G. A. r. for a can
non captured in the recent war t.
make medals for the volunteers in thu
Twentieth Kansas.
Postmaster Karr has made applica
ton to have a rural delivery route o.
about % miles established in Jeifersor
county, to run out of Valley Falls.
One of the big men of Missouri i:
David Rankin He is generally spo
ken of as the millionaire farmer.
He raises great crops and feeds many
head of stock. Rankin says that To-
him there has always been an eleventh
commandment, which it might b,
good policy for the Kansans to add t.