The Globe-republican., 1900-08-23
KANSAS 1rEats OF INTEREST.

Inc Union Pacific depot IS erecting a
new passenger and freight depot at
Rossville.
Kirvvin has about 700 people. yet it
is reported that 10000 were in town
Oh circus day.
A Lawrence man who breeds Poland
China hogs, received an order for one
from South Africa
Niles Wiseman, of Ford county, has
pasture fenced with wire Some one
cut the fence in 4s1 places.
The Rev. DIR. F1oren, of the Swedish
Lutheran church of Salina. accepts a
chair at Bethany college, Lindsborg-
F'orty-three trains, with a total of
about 200 cal $, went through the
Memphis roads yards at Fort Scott.
in one day recently.
A young lady of Council Grove has
painted the house in which she and
her mother lives and has done as good
a job as could have been done by any
painter in the town
A contract is closed for the erection
of a new court house at Clay Center. at
a cost of 500, 700. No bonds. A 3 mill
levy raises $40, 900 a year until the
court house is paid for
Joshua Keene, of Montgomery coun-
,
men raised and harvested :, 200 bushels
of wheat, 1880 of oats and expects to
have 5000 bushels of corn.
L. D. Thompson of johnson county,
marketed his crop of flax seed from a5
acres and received 1912. so cents for it.
He does not claim to have had the best
crop in his neighborhood.
The war department has decided to
f.1,-
sas National Guard to replace the s2o,-
600 worth carried from the state by re-
cruits for the Spanish war
Arkansas City's smallpox expenses
amounted to s., 600. Winfield paid out
Just half that sum. The towns have
asked the county commissioners to re-
imburse them for the money thus ex-
pended.
j. w. Robinson, president of the
Kansas Catt1emen's association, says
shat their picnic at Kingman was the
biggest affair of the kind on record
On two days the crowd mum bered about
IL 1000.
A neighborhood herb doctor at Gree
ley concocted some medicine by boiling
some jimpson weeds in a kettle which
she afterwards cooked roasting ears in
for supper. The combination caused a
very sick family.
Miss Grace Gilbert and Mrs. blanche
Miller, who were SO dangerously in
jured in a runaway some days since in
in Riverside park, Wichita. have SO far
recovered that they are able to move
about in their rooms.
VIM. McLe1land escaped from the
penitentiary II years ago, having then
IA months to serve. He recently pre-
ted h 10 n 4<0l, \
his story His record was examined
and found to be true. Governor Stan
ley has granted him a pardon.
Judge Stephen j. Osborn has returned
from England, where he went to in
vestigate the Rev James legacy.
Judge Osborn states that that there is
nothing there at present to show that
there is a fortune in store for the Oak
ley minister. Other heirs had posses
sion.
Florence has six regular passenger
trains daily each way on the main line
of the Santa Fe; four trains daily 1eav-
ing there the Mcpherson and Ell
Dorado branches, and several freight
and accommodation trains
John E. Frost, formerly land com
missioner of the Santa Fe, has been
chosen president of directors of the
hanSaS exposition com pany- The OBJ
ject of the association is to hold an ex-
position in 1904 in celebration of the
semi-eentennial of the formation OF the
territory of Kansas
The new Missouri Pacific aepot at
Wichita is to be completed November
in spite of strikes by stone masons.
The brick work is begun
Bartlett, Neosho county, is nearly
swept away by fire The Presbyterian
church; a storage hay barn, two eleva-
tors and other buildings We're de-
stroyed.
A citizen of Rosalia township. Butler
county, says he has resided there p
years and that there has not been a
fist fight or lawsuit in the township
in all that time
1t is said that the wheat raised in
Ellis county, Kansas, this year Will
amount to enough to give every voter
in the county 81, 500 in cash
Union Pacific railroad land limits