The Globe-republican., 1900-03-01

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Ottawa is in the field as a candidate
for the next G. A r. encampment-
Western Kansas newspapers are
booming jackrabbit meat for mince
pies
The Hutchinson library gets 1o1
volumes as a present from Miss Heiez
Gould.
An Edwards county farmer sold thir-
teen horses to Kansas City firm for
81, 800.
Pittsburg has captured a factory for
the manufacture Of gas and gasoline
engines
The Wichita Improvement society is
agitating paving more of the streets OF
the city
Ell Dorado is to vote on the PROPOSE
ton to build a $50, 900 high school
building
Did you ever try popping Kafir corn?
1t is asserted to be better than regular
pop corn
a cattle dipping plant is to be estab
Iished at Garden City The cattle men
are to do it.
Only two states. New York and Michi-
gan, rank above Kansas in the pro
duction of salt
A cotton mill at independence makes
LOCO pounds of Irvine a day, employing
forty-fve people.
A. J. Titus says cars Will be running
on the Denver, Oklahoma and Gulf out
of Kiowa by June first.
In some of the western counties the
statement is made that English spar
rows are destroying fruit bids
Lawrence has contracted for new
twelve room school building. 1t is to
be of stone and the estimated cost is
$50, 300.
County treasures are being defraud-
ed by parties with wolf scalps. They
kill in Colorado or Oklahoma and claim
bounty in Kansas.
A great number of people attended
the twenty-second annual session of
the grand lodge l. o. u. w in Topeka;
estimated as high as 800
Secretary George w. Martin of the
Historical society is asking the help of
the women's clubs in the work of cap
turing current history of localities day
by day
In the Shawnee county court house
there are fifty radiators and number
of CRATES. When the weather is cold
it requires two tons of coal u day to
keep up heat
The executive committee of the state
Temperance Union has refused to en-
dorse the plan to have a law passed
creating the office of state temperance
commissioner.
1t cost Bourbon county S., $50 4S to
convict two Missourians of killing
another Missourian, not counting the
the price of the ropes used in hanging
the murderers.
Two sticks of dynamite We're exPlo-
ded at one side of the hall, where a dance
was going on, in Ricevi1le, a suburb OF
Galena. Everybody was shocked but
no one seriously hurt
Honest Kansas buttermakers com
plain that tons of butterine is shipped
out into the state to farmers They
buy it. work it over, make it into prints
and double their money
Mr.. and Mrs William Wright of Bar
| Der county have been married fifty
years, have raised eight children and
seen twenty grandchildren grow to
manhood and womanhood without a
death in the family or in their children S
| families.
| a GOodIand lady made a mail pur-
! chase of towels from big city She
/ compared them with stock in store
| at home and found that she had paid
| three cents each more than she could
| have bought them for at home, not
| counting express charges
b. f McMurtrie, chief dispatcher OF
| the Santa Fe in Topeka, has resigned
| He has held that position for twenty
| five years. Paul Morton. second vice
/ president of the Santa Fe, was once a
| clerk in McMurtrie7s office while he
| was working in Nebraska
The Methodists of the First church
| at Ottawa. Kas-, will build a So, oOC
| parsonage. the site having been given
| by Colonel s. b. Rohrbaugh-
A sharper canvassed Republic county
| a short time ago selling patent feed
cookers to the farmers The News
says tibet all of the cookers have
blown up
A bed of kaolin porcelain clay) has
been discovered in Crawford county
1t is twenty-six feet in depth a COM
pany is engaged in buying up all the
| land in that vicinity
The semi-annual superintendent O.