The Globe-republican., 1900-02-08
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST


20, 1s43.
ped into Kansas during the fiscal year
1899 was 1,65s, 544 pounds
The Citizens bank at Altoona has
been robbed of s7eo in silver The burg
lars failed to get the currency
Employees of the Santa Fe who wish
to obtain transportation must now
make application to the division super
sntendent
It is said that another milling com
pany is being organized for the purpose
of grinding gold out of the shale along
the Smoky.
Nothing has grown in Kansas in the
last year like the free library sentiment
No less than twenty towns are discns-
sing the plan
The f'fast mali made the run, re
Gently, from Emporia to Newton, dis
tance of 70 miles, in 72 minutes
running time.
Bert Cole was driving in a buggy
near COTS, and collided with a Central
Branch train at a crossing He is in a
critical condition
An ex-probate judge of Logan county
is charged with forging the names of
two men to affidavits in proving up on
some government land.
The amount of real estate mortgages
in Sedgwick county fled in January
was $64, 931.30, while releases footed
up total of S1O6, 524. 40.
Superintendent Frank Nelson has
announced three series of dates for
normal institutes, viz: Ending June
90, July 81 and August %.
Thirty-eight merchants of Abilene
have signed agreement to close their
stores at 6:3O for seven months, COM
mencing with February L.
James O'Neal Gleason, a Twentieth
Kansas volunteer, was shot and killed
recently in San Francisco saloon
where he was tending bar.
: DIR. Fischer, veterinarian at the Ag-
ricu1tural college believes the diseased
cattle Swift's ranch, near Hoyt,
were suffering from the effect of too
much cottOnseed meal instead of hydro
phobia-
The prevalence of chickenpox in
Kansas towns has cut off opportunities
to get small jobs by the poor. Fear of
contagion is the cause. Poor commits
sioners' supplies are overtaxed from
this cause.
Kansas Republicans will hold a
aouble state convention at Topeka,
May IS, to nominate a state ticket and
to name delegates to the national con
wention. There will be $50 delegates
fn the Kansas convention.
The comptroller of the currency has
declared a second dividend of 10 per
cent in favor of the creditors of the
Atchison National bank, of Atchison,
Kan, making in all 40 per cent on
claims proved, amounting to $166, 299-
Z There was shipped from the Florena
stone quarries. near Irving, in the year
Just closed, 1,279 carloads of stone,
there was such demand for this stone
that the proprietor couldn't fill all the
orders Recently capitalists from
Beatrice, Neb., have purchased several
here's of stone lands, and Will at once
open another quarry, which will give
employment to a large number of hands
Nhe most of this stone has been ship
ped to other states.
DR. Elizabeth Mcintyre, a grad aate
of the Kansas Medical college, has
struck rich find of lead and zinc in
northern Arkansas DR. Mcintyre had
an office in Topeka at one time, but
will now devote her time to her inter
ests in Northern Arkansas.
II--:.-11e1.enant Uline left Wichita with
seven more men and 80 ma, d,,r;nr
Gne last month"; recruiting Stat1OnS
have been open at Kansas City, Topeka
and two Kansas towns, and only p
b men have been secured, compared to
SO men for the Wichita station alone
Mrs. Louisiana H. De1ahav, widow of
the late Mark W. Delahay, the first
federal district judge of Kansas, is very
low, and her recovery is not expected
This venerable woman has reached the
age of ~ years and has been i'll for
some time
The State Teachers association viii
recommend that the next legislature
pass a law providing for the study of
agriculture in the common schools
should this succeed, Secretary E D.
CoburI- viii be asked to write text
book
Mrs H. A. Brown has been postnis-
tress at Homestead, Chase county foi
almost twenty-five years She is now