The Globe-republican., 1900-09-06

The Buckridge pump company, of
Wichita, is chartered with capital of
$50, ,ooo-
The Hiavvatha World joins in the de-
nunciation of the Belgian hare specu1a-
ton scheme.
A general store at Rose, Woodson
county, was destroyed by fire August
2s- Half insured.
Marcel1us Curtis, of Bur1ingame,
aged IL, stepped on a stubb1e weed and
lock jaw resulted
Kansas now has 497 state, private
and national banks; 336 state, 1o3
tional and IS private
A New York safe manufacturer says
he has sold more safes IN Kansas this
year than in any other state
f Hurd, of Coffey- county, was struck
on the head with hoe by his son-in-
law, and probably fatally injured-
The state board of health reports Is
cases of smallpox in the state; eleven
of them among miners in the south
east.
Newton shops of the Santa Fe are
them having been sent there from the
south.
Sedgwicl1 county paid off in August
S1o1, ,961 of mortgages. This is at the
rate of quarter of million dollars a
year.
J. P. Stucl1y. a German farmer near
Mound Ridge has threshed 1O,ooO bu-
shells of wheat and will plant 600 acres
this fall.
Clyde's watermelon festival brought
together 15, 900 people for the first day
of feasting. Concordia sent out two
train1oads.
r.,
diana, will speak in Topeka, October Q,
concerning his personal Investigations
in the Philippines
John w. Il ussey, aged 50, a farmer
near Maden, Kas-, was walking on the
track of the Lincoln branch of the q.
p at Shipton, and was killed.
The logrolling at Alma drew big
crowds. special on the Rock Island
left Topeka with lis passengers and
reached Alma with about 6Oo
A local truss company of Topeka sent
5000 packages through the Topeka
postofice during the past year, and
not one of them was missent or lost.
Fire starting from lamp explosion
destroyed SIS, 900 worth of property in
East Galena- Two stores, two empty
buildings and a dwelling were burned.
The four carloads of hogs which
topped the Wichita market the other
day, were fed on alfalfa and dry corn.
It is now conceded that there is money
in alfalfa for hogs.
1.-THE total vote in Alabama in the re-
cent election was $50, 900 on less than
one-half that of Kansas in a state cleo
ton. Yet Alabama has nine members
of the house of representatives and
Kansas only eight
Miss Edna Sippey, of Belle P1aine,
| was chosen queen of the Sumner coun-
| ty jubilee She received 3,72O votes
while her two principal competitors
| received-Miss Maggie Barndol1ar,
| 3,462, and Miss Mabel Klein 2,31s.
The Rock Islands Homeseekers' ex-
cursions, the third Tuesdays of each
| month, are bringing a multitude of
i good citizens from the eastern states
| to Kansas, Nebraska and Oklahoma.
| They come, largely, from Ohio, Illinois,
| Missouri, Iowa and Minnesota.
a co1ored woman confined in jail at
| Pittsburg for drunkenness, had friend
| return the horse and buggy with which
| she came to town, to her husband, with
| Il message to the effect that she was
/ staying with friends and would not be
| home for a week or SO.
The i1nbeci1e asylum at Winfield now
has 2o4 inmates, of whom 125 are male
and 20 are females The state now has
S135, 600 invested in this charity.
1t is said that grafters are going
through the country with a set of
| blanks like those used by the census
enumerators- Their claim is that they
want additional information on certain
matters, and after it has been secured
the farmer is asked to sign his name
to the statement Later the signature
turns up in some bank on the business
end of prO1nissOry note
| There are four rural mail routes in
Jewell county and some more in con
temptation Burr Oak, MankatO, jew
ell City. Randall and Ionia are all in
telephone connection, and many pri-
vate houses the line in the country.
All of the men who have held the
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