The Globe-republican., 1900-05-10

Salina Bicycle club
Immigrants from Oklahoma are set
ting in Hodgeman county
The Reno county court house is to be
built with Cofeyvi1le brick
Fort Scott has two courts this week,
the district and the federal
Abilene-s spring census shows a pop
ulation of 3,736, gain of 1s3 in year
A United Commercial Travellers,
council is to be instituted in Abilene
The graduating class of the Topeka
high school numbers As; II boys and "a
girls
High water took out portion of the
bridge over the Arkansas river at SYRIA
cuse-
What is claimed as the largest gusher
in Kansas is spouting oil near indie
pendence-
A shell game worker following a
circus had a good run of stealings in
Hiawatha-
new NJ E church to cost Sc, 600 is
proposed at Sterling Contracts for
stone are made
The ladies of Columbus held a weeks
festival and raised 500 for the benefit
of the local band
The St Louis & San Francisco road
viii soon begin the erection of new
depot at Wichita.
meeting of all the Registers of Deeds
in the state is called to convene in
Hutchinson May 23-
A military school for officers of the
K. N. Guard will be held in Newton
the last week of June
Rev. J. d. Richey came from St Louis
- Of T<111r Z raiS
pal church in Wichita
Perry Hutchinson, of Marysville, had
% steers killed by lightning; they were
standing by wire fence
Captain George Ritchey, ex-postmas
ter at Leavenworth, died at the Soldiers
home last week aged g.
Miss Helen Gould is to furnish two
beds in the Winfield hospital. The
building is nearing completion
The Phoenix mills at Coffeyvil1e were
damaged by fire to the extent of 81 900
last week. Insurance covers the loss.
The penitentiary now has an even
thousand convicts and there is no
trouble in keeping them all at work.
Eugene f. Ware has placed a bronze
portrait bust of Daniel Webster Wilder
in the rooms of the Kansas Historical
society.
A Waverley farmer gives figures to
prove an average profit of 81, 333 from
his quarter section farm, since it was
opened.
Ex- Senator ingalls, is to return to
his home in Atchison June 1st, from
Arizona and is much improved in
health.
The Olathe canning factory will have
a capacity to handle 100 tons of corn
and 1900 bushels of tomatoes every
eleven hours
Fort Scott's high school is now on
the list of Kansas schools whose dip1o-
mas entitle graduates to admission to
Chicago university
George NJ Lescher, who went from
Topeka to Costa Rica to do construc-
ton work for the Topeka Mining COM
pany, died there of yellow fever
In the large wheat raising counties
of Mcpherson, Rice, Barton, Stafford,
Sedgwick and Sumner, the eye meets
nothing but the green of enormous
fields.
The People bank of Colony, with a
capital of $4,000 goes into voluntary
liquidati on because the bankers think
they can make more out of their money
in other lines of business.
Ben and VIM Mcclellan, father and
son, We're sent to the penitentiary from
Concorc1ia for eighteen months each for
assaulting Frank Wilson near Glasco.
Charles Hirren came to Montgomery
county from ireland in 1869 with
nothing. He died recently one of the
| richest farmers in the county, at the
age of S.
Harry Hammond. of Sumner county,
is planting 1000 black locust trees He
received them from the state forestry
| plantation at no expense save trans
| portation-
A farmer near Valley Falls advertised
for wife and received 700 replies. He
selected one of them which came from
Massachusetts, written by IAN ordinary
| woman the writer said. They
| Were married last week.
Kirwin and Ellsworth are usually
first in public affairs They com
menced arrangements for Fourth Oh
| july quite early.