The Globe-republican., 1900-08-16
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.


Pink eye among horses and cattle is
reported as resulting in total blindness
in some sections.
A joint at Wil1iamstovn had stick
of dynamite placed under it which de-
no1ished the building.
The Gould salt plants at Hutchinson
have stopped work indefinitely. About
300 workmen are affected
l. B. Graves, a wealthy man of Par
sons, who was the first lumber dealer
there, has killed himself with a razor.
Coffey county and Osborne county
both report that delinquent tax lists
of this year are shorter than for any
previous year
There have been no new cases of
Texas fever in Chautauqua county for
several weeks. So far ten cattlemen
have lost 122 head
w. w Van Gundy, an inmate of the
Leavenvvorth Soldiers Home, died in a
wagon near Emporia. He was on a
camping trip with his family
The Kansas live stock sanitary board
decides to continue the quarantine on
breeding cattle from all states outside
of Missouri, Colorado and Oklahoma.
Greeley county complains of plague
of flying ants which throng the houses.
In the court house they are swept up
by the fire shovel full in all the rooms.
Presiding Elder George w Howes,
OF the Southwest Kansas con ference of
the NJ L church, died recently of con-
Eyestion of the brain Death came sud
denly.
The Kansas Oil and Gas company are
still taking leases, having now 25, 900
acres in Southern Montgomery county.
They are making arrangements to put
down wells.
The house occupied by Mrs. Thomp-
son in Wichita caught fire. She rushed
to the gate where she fell One whole
side is para1yzed and she is blind; all
the result of fright.
Twenty-Five years ago Anton Mernis
came to Ellis county with his entire
possessions tied in a blanket. This
year he has harvested so, 900 bushels of
wheat, from his own land.
Some of the Topeka ministers com
plain that the old custom of being
called upon alternately to hold services
at the insane asylum is changed; one
minister now going there regularly.
Ed. Ford and wife were boat riding
near Clay Center when both were
thrown into the water. Ford was
drowned but his wife was saved by
holding on to weeds until help came.
Geo. e. Chamblin, of Girard, a Goth
Kansas soldier. after being married
two weeks, was accidentally killed
with a gun He was buried July :,
and his wife died of broken heart a
month later
Three st. Francis men bunched their
cattle and hired a herder The bow
went after rabbits with his dogs and
the cattle went into a field of green
sorghum and Is of the cows were killed
by being gorged with the sorghum.
Lincoln Park, Mitchell county has a
grove of most magnificent oak trees
that have probably not grown any
since Columbus landed; as it takes 300
years for an oak to grow. 800 years to
mature and 300 years to die. These
trees still thrifty.
The Wichita Eagle corrects the
statement, first made by the Eagle
that the Gould Salt works at Hutchin-
son are closed; was wrongly informed.
Department Commander Martin has
designated the Santa Fe as the official
route for the Kansas soldiers to the
Chicago encampment, Aug. 90 to Sept.
Mrs Crumley, of lola, was paid the
other day, IS, 4o6, insurance on the life
OF her father. The payment was the
hrst she knew that there was insurance
her fathers life.
Miss katherine West hanged herself
in the Osawatomie asylum. She was
highly educated and became insane
from too much study. Her home was
in Fort Scott, but she had been a teach
er in New York. Connecticut and Mich
igan-
State Fish Commissioner Wiley has
within a year placed 90 600 fish in the
Blue, Smoky Hill and Nerdigris rivers
and in private ponds and lakes He
has bought Is, 900 to distribute in Sep
TENDER. and will receive car load from
the government this fall.
An English clergyman writes to
Kansas University asking what fee he
shall send to receive the title of d. d.
from that institution
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