The Globe-republican., 1900-11-08

Wichita has an old soldiers club
with ], ,oo1 members
Shawnee county now has twelve
rural delivery routes
The registration of lola is 1851 and
tll%l Of Winfield is 1873
Thirteen insurance companies have
state agents in Topeka.
The mill and elevator 1t Frederick
are burned Loss, 81, 600.
The union stock yards at Wichita
are to be paved with brick
One man at McCune has 10000 bush
els of apples for sale at his orchard
Work has begun on a $4,000 addi-
ton to Do9d=s packing house IN Wichita
Oil and gas have been struck at Peru
The flow OF oil IS about 80 barrels a
day
It is reported that many wheat fields
viii have to be Tastured TO prevent
jointing.
Charles Warren, aged Is. OF xyamego,
pulled his gun through a hedge and
was killed.
movement is or foot for the for
nation of vvoraen.s basket bali leagues
in this state
w. H. Sears. formerly private secre-
tary to Senator Harris, is doing Red
Cross work at Galveston.
Miss Lofty Garrison, of Fort Scott,
has been offered $500 a week as leading
soprano in the Bostonians-
Through the parole system 81 boys
from the reform school Were placed izz
good homes in the last year.
Miss Molly Arnold. OF Reading, has
been chosen a teacher in the public
schools of Las Vegas. n NJ
Chancellor Snow, Of Kansas Uriver-
sity, has been compelled to take 2 va
cation on account Of poor health
During October there were brick
sidewalks laid IN Topeka along 80 city
lots, requiring the use of 4Os. 600 brick.
Salaries and running expenses paid
out at the Hutchinson reformatory for
the month of October, amounted to
S7.585-15-
The appellate court has decided that
the city cannot prescribe a Jail SEN
tence for anything save failure to pay
poll tax
superintendent stillwelI of the Rock
Island tells Wichita people that his
road needs and will build a new freight
depot and extend its yards in that
city
During October there were SO pris-
oners received in the Kansas peniten-
tiary, 18 Of whom were from Oklahoma
During the month 24 We're discharged
and died
The Santa Fe has commenced the
work of reducing grades on the EN-
poria-OttaVva cut off. The work will
cost 800, 600. The maximu1El of grade
on that line is to be 21 feet to the
mile.
The piano and organ dealers general
~ report the sale of greater number
of pianos to farmers in Kansas this
year than ever before. Heretofore
farmers bought organs if any instru-
ment.
The project for the construction OF
an electric railway from Fort Riley to
Junction City has resulted in charter
to company for that purpose. An elec-
tric light plant and an ice plant for the
city are included in the plans of the
company
Capt Newton BridgInan rode a sad
die in a recent parade in Wichita that
was ridden by the general of his bri
gade up San Juan hill 1t was left II
his possession as quartermaster aud
/ though 1T IS but wreck he prizes il
highly as well he may.
The county treasurers propose tc
form ulate q statute which will cause {
all property to be assessed at its actua
value This is a job that has been tried
by somebody or other at every session
of the legislature for the past 20 year:
and more
The Farm department of Kansa.
! Agricultural college has finished up it.
| work in summer institutes, having con
Quoted 121 with a total attendance o
$4,000 people which is fully four time.
as many people as has ever beer
reached before in an entire year.
A farmer near Topeka who ordered
of two boys was shot by one of the
| boys, receiving a serious wound. Tbs
/ boys are unknown.
Kansas has at least 900 veterans
of whom about 40. 900 receive pensions
while the Grand Army of the Republi.