The Globe-republican., 1900-06-28
KANSAS ITEMS or1NrEREsr.

Caney has had $50, 900 fire. The
Caney Patriot was in IT.
The Kaw valley is Dragging over its
prospect for a record beating potato
crop.
John O. Boyce of Kansas is one OF
the secretaries of the Philadelphia con-
vention.
a fire at Leroy destroyed all of the
city records except some of the treas
urers books.
The Woman's relief corps at Peabody
is arranging for monument to veter-
ans buried there.
C. NJ. Scott, an early newspaper man,
has donated twenty lots to Arkansas
City for park purposes.
The deposits of the bank at Randall,
Jewell county, are four times larger
than the capital stock
Barton county has ID 900 inhabitants
and not one pauper. It is among the
big four wheat counties.
William Gorhan, near Russell, has
1000 acres of wheat, from which he ex-
poets to harvest I2O, 900 bushels.
The farmers of Ness county have
dubbed together and bought large
quantity OF bisulphide of carbon to be
used against prairie dogs
Grant Belts, of Jewell county, fed
100 pound shoat with soaked corn and
buttermi1k thirty days, during which
time he gained five pounds per day.
The president of the w. C. T. U. of
Barber county charged the county at
torney with receiving SIS a month from
each of the joints, and he has sued her
for SANDER.
sub insurance solicitor for hail in
snrance who has been working in the
central part of the state, is wanted for
drawing money on forged checks. His
name is w. L. Newly.
Kansas sent for relief of India
through its general committee 10000
bushels of corn and 50, 900 in cash.
How much has been sent by churches,
etc, cannot be known.
VIM. Parker, city marshal of Galena,
was killed by a live wire. He had let
go of his little daughters hand in
slant before receiving the shock A
second or two saved her life.
VIM Marshall, of Lawrence, is prob
ably the only man living in Kansas
who was a delegate to the Pittsburg
convention which nominated General
Fremont. He is 80 years old.
During the month of May the Belle
Vile National bank cashed stock checks
to the amount of $37. 800; paid out to
employees of the Rock Island So, 500 and
cashed So, 600 worth of pension checks
AS soon as the nomination of Roose-
welt became known one town claimed
to have secured promise from him to
make stop there. It was not ten
hours before fifty Kansas towns be
seiged the nominee with invitations by
wire.
VIM. Mayer came to Marshall county
81
He now has a fine farm with an elegant
residence, with orchards and vine
yard. Not long since he gave a son a
we'll improved 16O acre farm and did
not miss its cost
Swan Blex, a Fawn Creek farmer,
Montgomery county, took a claim in
1871 and sold half of it for 5000 to be
able to get title to the other so. He
now has a fine farm, with all kinds OF
fruit, has fine horses and cattle, and
owns two other good farms.
New stucco beds have been found il
the east part of Dickinson county
President Shive of Burton state
bank lives on his farm and person all
conducts his farming and stock raising
He has private telephone connection
with his bank, which is five miles from
his farm, and is consulted about tn
most important business of the bank
He came to Harvey county in the earl,
'7os and took claim, with not mucl
but his hands to use in making a hon
OF it, and that claim has made hi
wealth.
a man was shot dead in a saloon il
Usage City kept by three Twentieth
Kansas soldiers. The dead man wa
not identified
The 100000 mortgage on Levi
academy, in Wichita is to be raised
Colonel Lewis gives SIS, 900 and tn
Presbyterian aid board for academic
will pay the rest of it.
A. c. Mcdonald has been investigs
ting the wheat for a Chicago grail
firm He says that Kansas and Okla
hona will furnish the bulk of tn
wheat supply this year.
A son of VIM Palmer near Chene,
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