The Globe-republican., 1900-02-22
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST

The Santa Fe has transferred five
train crews from Topeka to Argentine
The Highups of the Santa Fe are on
an inspection tour of the road west of
Topeka.
Burton Fl. Hartmann, whose home
was at Oswego, Kan, was drowned in
the bay of San Francisco
E. Bierer. of Hiawatha, is visiting
ibis three sons who are in the govern
ment service in Washington
The January receipts OF the Lansing
penitentiary were So. 4s2 more than the
expenditures for the month.
The new poor farm in Butler county
Is equipped with piano and is the
scene of many entertainments
Senator Harris has introduced a bill
appropriating 500, 900 for the public
building Pittsburg is asking for
The assembly board of the Ottawa
Chautauqua proposes to erect boys
building, 3ox6o feet to cost 81 200.
The Kansas agricultural college has
S25, 900 on call in Washington, being
the eleventh annual insta1lnent-
An Atchison school teacher has set
the multi iplication table to rag time
and the children learn it in week.
A site for the Cherokee county high
school has been located and the board
thinks the school viii be ready for use
by September 1st.
The state treasury was about to be
swamped by the amount of Quantren
raid scrip and the treasurer has quit
receiving it for taxes
George A. Hancock, master mechanic
of the Santa Fe has been appointed
superintendent of machinery Of the st.
Louis and San Francisco.
Window had a church social. and the
social used a gasoline stove, and the
stove started a fire and the fire en-
dangered the whole town.
Three lawsuits have grown, in Ne
maha county, from the planting of
mischief seed by school boys. One of
the boys was ridden on a rail.
Kansas and Oklahoma mill owners
held meeting in Kansas City to de-
wise means of raising the standard of
hard wheat raised IA their sections
! John Heustis and Nels Linden We're
killed by an explosion of u locomotive
boiler in the Santa Fe round house in
in Topeka. Three others We're injured
of whom J. L. Beards1ey may die.
State Superintendent Nelson esti-
mates that at nearly 2,4oo different
there We're public celebrations of the
DIST anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's
birth.
Express messengers and agents of
the Rock Island have a movement to
Climb together and start rancho Forty
mon propose to invest $500 each and
put $40 a month each into an expense
fund.
A Wichita special policeman was
watching a building that had been
4ampered with. He saw some one
there and gave chase: dropped his
voIver which went off sending a bullet
through his leg.
a gang of horse thieves has been
captured in Cowley county; supposed
to be Same that have been guilty
of extensive horsestealing along and
each side the Kansas state line Three
horses wers stolen IN Wichita in one
night last week
Reno county farmers. some of them.
grow two crops of potatoes on the same
land Thomas Eerles marketed his
second crop in january and February
Rural free delivery is spreading
rapidly in Kansas On the 18th of
March service on n 25-mi1e route run
ming out of Lawrence will be COM
menced.
As soon as Nelli- George of Yelling
ton became of age she brought suit
against her stepfather for So, 900 dam
ages, charging him with having beaten
bruised and disabled her.
80 Shawnee county Will have the largest
delegation in the repu blican state con
vention-3I- Wyandotte comes second
with p, and Sedgwicl third with FL.
\. Kelley. of bingham received a
5000 check from the National Tribune
of Washington. 1t was the capital
prize of a guessing contest put up by
that paper.
1t is becoming pretty general senti-
aEent that there is no other way te
Improve the moral tendencies of the
state reform school boys except by
giving them something to do.
Liberal is now connected with Hans
ford, Texas, by telephone Rancho.
on the line have telephones and from