The Globe-republican., 1900-02-01


water main bursted and flooded whole
block.
A Clay Center photographer e.tool1''
four newly married couples in one day
recently
February is the thirty-fourth ami
versary of the founding of Washburn
college
It cost Harvey county only sea 80 to
run its poor farm the last twelve
months.
E. B. Davenport, a farmer near Atch-
ison, sells capons in Kansas Citp at IS
cents each
Kansas towns are generally forming
is Pleasant ton
Ellis expects the Union Pacific to
spend a lot of money on improvements
there this season.
Mrs Lee Cochran was killed and her
husband badly injured at road cross
ing at Lebanon.
Lieutenant Uline took seventeen ar
til1ery recruits from Wichita He goes
to Pittsburg next
Miss Helen Gould has contributed
$500 for a library to be placed in the
Y. NJ. G. A. reading rooms at Fort
Scott.
Wichita is to have large grocery
brokerage firm. it represents the
leading manufacturing firms of the
country.
Implement dealers of Kansas have
received quotations on binding Irvine
at rate % per cent lower than few
days ago.
The senate committee on public lands
reservation to Kansas for educational
purposes
The southwest portion of Montgom-
cry county is infested with a gang of
thieves Horses, hogs, buggies, sad
dies, harness and feed are taken.
At Longton the opera house, post
Office and harness shop burned in the
night. The loss is between So, 900 and
Sc, 900, partly covered by insurance.
Jacob Dewitt, past grand commander
Knight Templars and past grand high
priest and past grand master A. F. and
A. NJ, of the state of Kansas, is dead
Kansas has had fifteen governors as
a state. Twelve have been Republi-
cans, two Populists and one Democrat.
The state was thirty-nine years old Oh
January 90
Walter Peterson, who served a term
in the penitentiary for stealing, re
turned to his old home, Ottawa, and
has since been arrested for having
stolen horses in his possession
The assistant attorney gdnera1 rules
that clerks of district courts cannot
legally charge the county a fee for
keeping the minutes of the court. Sew
eral district clerks have been collecting
fees for this work.
prohibiting 1oafers from taking up
in the state house The state
house has always been favorite loaf
ing place for a lot of Topeka toughs.
They will now have to hunt another
place
The women of the United Brethren
church at Marmaton worked three days
with spades and picks digging for the
foundation of a church. The business
men of the town then finished the work
through shame The women had
raised money enough for the material
for the church. The women had de-
termined to do the carpenter work.
but the men decided that they would
attend to that
James Huffman, a brakeman on the
Hutch 1son & Southern. was run over
and killed at Rago, Kingman coun
ty-
A stock company with a capital of
about $1,000, has been organized at
Williamsburg, for the purpose of Dor
ing for gas or oil. Williamsburg is e.
thusiastic the prospect.
The Blue Rapids Motor says: s'As
much as twenty-five years ago the Blue
Rapids wooden mill furnished the wool
en- goods for the state penitentiary and
other public institutions
G E. Ingram, formerly Rock Island
agent at Morganville. has resigned his
position and accepted the chief clerk
ship to Local Freight Agent f. L. Pea
cock, with headquarters in Topeka.
Mr. John Kyle relates that when he
first came to CawlSer in 1871, he made
a trip to the present site of Gaylord.
and while there a woman died and no
coffin could be procured Part of the
roof of a house was taken off to make