The Globe-republican., 1899-11-30

KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST
The farmers have not more than halt
finished husking their corn.
Leavenworth high school girls are
organizing company of cadets.
II. S. Barr, mayor Of White City,
Kas., died suddenly of heart disease.
Wellington gets more good shows
than any town in the state of its size.
Near Clyde, Kansas, the young cattle
are dying off with something which
resembles black-leg.
The Wichita Pump company will
erect new building for their business
100000 feet and probably two stories
high.
The court of appeals has ruled that
spotter evidence is admissible in iq-
uor cases, but the jury must judge of
its weight.
The Missouri Pacific sleeper which
formerly started from Hutchinson for
Kansas City will hereafter be started
from Wichita.
Westmoreland has railroad at last
branch of the Leavenworth, Kansas
and Western. A big celebration had
to result of course.
The new Congregational church at
Tryon was dedicated and after the
ceremonies chicken dinner was served
in the new building.
The name of the postoffice at Roch-
ester, Kingman county, Kas., has been
changed to Zenda, and Eseoredore C.
Holcomb appointed postmaster.
Atchison has always been noted as
badly troubled by theatre gallery hood
lnms. John Seaton, the owner of the
opera house has declared war against
these pests.
While national banks fail occasional
ly with disastrous results, not single
dollar has been lost to depositors in
Kansas state banks during the last
three years.
The comptroller of the currency has
authorized the assessment of 100 per
cent on the capital stock of $4,000 of
the Atchison National bank of Atchi-
son, Kas., to be payable December 4.
The corn crop in Brown county makes
from forty to eighty bushels to tha
acre and many farmers have sold at rs
cents bushel. Some state that the
corn has netted them s14 to the acre:
Judge Dale of the Sedgwick county
district court has sentenced a girl to
the hutchinson reformatory. This is
the first, Judge Dale ruling that girls
can be admitted there the same as bows.
The smallest election table this fall
appears in the Leoti Standard-Wichi-
ia county, little over a stickfull.
There are three voting precints in
the county, casting less than 300 votes.
Judge Wellhouse, the celebrated ap-
pie grower, will harvest only one hun
dred barrels of apples from his 900
acres of orchard land in Shawnee coun-
ty. He has orchards in other parts of
the state.
County Treasurer Phillips of Shawnee
county has two gold pieces one of $40
and the other of SIS, coined in 1889, be-
fore the gold of California was discov-
cred. He also has ''war greenback"
of the issue of 1863.
Joe Hall, hoisterman at the Ethel S.
mine in Cooper Hollow fell ninety feet
into the mine. striking the water. He
received only small wound in the
back of the head, and climbed the pump
back to the surface before the alarm
was given.
On November 20 the engineer of the
Shawnee county court house had used
two tons of coal. Last year 20 tons
had been consumed at the same date.
One fifth of the worlds product of
zinc is used to extract gold from South
African ores. The war has caused a
falling off of SIS to SO ton at Galena.
Kansas.
John B. Carey, former mayor of
Wichita and always much esteemed
citizen, whose leaving the city some
years since was deeply regretted, is
dead
State Superintendent of Insurance
W. v. Church denied the application of
the tribe Of Ben Hur, fraternal order
for a license to do business in Kansas.
The postofice department has re-
newed the lease of the present location
of the Pittsburg. Kas., postoffice for
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