The Globe-republican., 1900-06-07
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Sedgwick county has just contracted
for four new steel bridges, costing
$500.
A Muscotah man got drunk and paid
all his debts He then sobered up and
was sorry
Rev J. P Fulton and wife. of Har-
per, recently celebrated their golden
wedding
Concordia's high school graduating
class has % young women and five
young men.
Hunnewell is to have a patent wash
ing machine factory, with a capital
stock of So. 600
There is living in Eureka a brother
of NJ Demange who was Captain
Dreyfus' attorney
Tt is said that the Stillwel1 road will
cross the Kansas line south of Corwin,
An Harper county.
Miss Flora Thomas, of Paola, was
declared the winner of the prize piano
at Mexico, Missouri
Mrs Ella Armstrong of Ell Dorado
has clerl<ship in the surgeon generals
office in Washington.
The new Street Railway in Wichita
paid during May, about So, 500 for con-
Etruction work alone.
n SuDScTlPIIOh paper Tea11ZeO S11O at
Eummerfie1d, to replace a team which
had been killed by lightning.
The sisters of St. Joseph in Wichita
viii formally open a normal school, no.
Vitiate and orphanage on June 21.
Thirty descendants of Robert New
ton Allen, of Indiana, assembled at
Chanute, the guests of R. n. Allen.
Christian Klumppf. aged 72, and Mrs
Minerva,
married the other day at Garden City.
Assessors returns in Tsedgwick coun-
ty show that during the year there had
been sold poultry and eggs for sos, ,477.
Wyandotte has passed Crawford
county in having the largest assess
xnent of railroad property among
Kansas counties.
John kitten, a deaf old man, was
crossing the Rock Island tracks at
Turon, and he and his horse We're
killed by train.
A boy in Chanute died from rupture
caused from a boyish scuff1e and two
boys have had a charge of murder
made against them
Dickinson, Salina and Mcpherson
counties had heavy rains accompanied
with local hail storms, last week,
which did some damage.
Kansas now has ninety-two rural
delivery routes for the accommodation of
farmers with the promise of a large
increase to the number.
Wind damaged a farmers fences and
buildings in Lincoln county and 100
neighbors gathered and repaired them.
They called it a holiday.
The city assessor, IS returns show the
population of Sa1ina to be 6,5O1. Sa-
4ne county has a population of 1891,
a gain of s31 over last year.
The passenger department of the
Santa Fe has issued circular in co1ors
telling about the Chautauqua assembly
at Winfield June 21-Ju1y 2.
Colonel A. P. Forsythe, a farmer of
Liberty township, Montgomery county
Kan, presented the county high school
with a wagon load of books for the
school library
The special election in Mitchell coun-
ey to authorize levy of $4,000 to
erect court house carried by a large
majority
A farmer near Inman sold his farm
and went to Barber county and bought
$40 acres for IS, 400. He also bought
large Hereford herd, hogs and imple-
xnents. The ranch has fine buildings
Superintendent Church. of the State
Insurance department, in his report
says that in reduced fire insurance
rates the people of Kansas have been
saved in the last year S249. asa.
A writ of mandamus was served on
the commissioners of Sumner county,
ordering them to canvass the vote on
the county high school June Is.
Decoration day was observed at more
places in Kansas and by more people
than ever before At least the multi
tude of reports that appear would
show this as true
Surveyors for the Orient railway
have reached Wichita, having finished
work on almost air line from Bur
Gngton o. r. coming through Harper
county, Kansas.
The railroads running into Wichita
report greatly increased business at
that point The wholesale houses are
sending out unusually large shipments
and the retail merchants are putting