The Globe-republican., 1900-12-27

H416 1ueSEAOA Oh ne" COURT
house.
Glen Elder will vote on the nth of
January on going IN debt to build a
city hall
H-U. Nudge, general superintendent
of the Santa Fe, has purchased home
in Topeka
General W s Metcalf, of the T.7en-
tieth Kansas, has opened a loan office
in Lawrence
State Treasurer Grimes pays the en-
p1oyes of the state week ahead of
time this month.
During the last month the salt mines
of Kingman shipped II cars of salt
day for 2e days
A F. Casad, the new captain of the
West Point foot ball team, was born
and raised in Wichita
There are only two members of the
famous douglas House who are in
the present legislature
Tt is claimed that gold worth 81 was
taken from piece of rock the size of
an egg, found near Mound City
The Missouri & Kansas Telephone
company has put up two long cables
in Wichita, each having 100 wires
Thos- Horribly, of Morris county,
brought back SIS, 900 more from the
K1ondilne mines than he took there
Andrew Baird, state secretary of the
y NJ. C. A, has been reelected to that
position by the executive committee.
Bank note No. L, issued by the Ma
tionaI bank of Honolulu, was received
on freight bill at Parsons recently
The warden of the Kansas peniten-
tiary has notified all sheriffs that he
viii receive no prison rs until the place
is free from smallpox.
Luke Kenoslxy, and Anthony Han1ey
of Axten, huslzed 157 and 155 bushels of
corn from a.. IN. to $50 p. m. The
corn was hauled and unloaded by
others.
There is no statute in Kansas fixing
the manageable age and the common
law places the age of II for women and
IA for men, There is talk of legislation
upon this subject this winter.
1t is asserted by school architects
that there is more school room under
the single roof of the Friends Univer-
sity in Wichita than can be found
under any single roof in America.
Members of the Lutheran church of
Gaylord started a library which has
reached fair proportions. 1t is grad
ually being merged into a public Ii
brary by the application of a 81 mem
bership fee.
Living southwest of Conway Springs
are two brothers, sons of one of the
Sianese twins. Formerly two sons of
the other twin also lived in Sumner
county, but it is not known there
where they are now
There are now 5,565 books in the
travelling library department of the
state library. Tho scheme was started
with Z, 900 books. The case of so books
has the average go readers, giving a
total number Of readers of 16, 500.
Abi1ene,s business men, in meeting
assent led. have, jointly with the city
council, decided to continue to ssregu-
late the liquor business as has been
done in the past. The council says
that money must be raised some way.
eAdna Treat, aged 1O3 years, died at
Hays, Kansas recently. In 1924 he
was master OF the Masonic lodge in
Troy, n. Y, which entertained La
fayette. Mr.. Treat was intimate with
Presidents Monroe and John Quincy
Adams. He was a prominent officer in
the ceremonies of dedicating the Erie
canal
a Lawrence firm has been awarded
the contract for grading about so miles
of the Rock Islands extension from
Liberal.
The flax seed crop of Bourbon county
averages returns of S15 to SIS an acre.
There is no market for straw and it is
used for feed.
The new theater at the Leavenvv orth
Soldiers home has its first performance
a =
all times be admitted free. but officers,
employees and citizens viii have to pay
so and 25 cents
Geo b. Edgar, a Santa Fe operator,
has invented railroad ticket which
cannot be manipulated by scalpers. a
patent is applied for and offers have
been received from railroad passenger
| departments
An FL Dorado girl received a checl;
IN 1889 for premiums at the county
fair She had laid it aside and forgot
ten 1t but has now cashed it