The Globe-republican., 1900-10-18

benefit OF Galveston realized $500
Harper is to have 1o,o 900 bushe1 ele-
vator. and wants another lumber yard
too.
Sheep feeding is becoming one of the
leading farm Industries of Atchison
county.
Feeders are being placed among
Kansas farmers, a carload or two to
each buyer.
The next meeting of the Commercial
clubs of Kansas will be held in Topeka
in January
Duck hunting in the Cheyenne bot
toms is said to be the best in Kansas
this year.
Everett z. Salser. professor of book
keeping and penmanship at the State
Normal, is dead.
Dr. Alexander Lewis. aged 81. who
was brevet brigadier general in the
civil war, is dead
Frank GiIstrap, of Linn county. was
killed by Memphis passenger train
He was very deaf.
The Rock Island has asked for bids
on twenty new compound Locomotives
for the freight service.
Davenport, st. Louis and Fort Scott
men propose to rehabilitate the Fort
Scott street service
The Kansas penitentiary. for the
month of September, had balance
over expenses of 81, 491.
R. T. o1iverson, OF Abbeyvi1le, Reno
county, tried to jump a moving
train and was killed instantly
Clay Center has not quit; another in
junction is asked for to operate against
in the 11rx1
Warranty deeds have averaged %
daily, coming to the Office OF the regis
ter of deeds of Sedgwick county
The five barrels of apples sent by the
Kansas horticultural society to Paris,
was awarded the first premium.
Marion county's poor farm consider
ably more than pays its own expenses,
including the support of inmates
Theo- Richardson, aged So, of Wei
1ington, is dead. He located there in
1879, and had been merchant for over
forty years.
The official ballot in Kansas will
cont in five state tickets-Repub1ican
Democratic, Peoples Party, Prohibi-
ton and Socialist.
Erastus A and Rhoda A. Pollard, of
Harvey county, have celebrated their
sixtieth wedding day. They were
married in Vermont, October II, 1870
Blue Mound lost four frame buildings
on its main street by fire and the plate
glass windows in the opera house block
across the street were broken by the
heat.
State Labor Commissioner johnson
has been instrumental in settling the
miners strike in Leavenworth. The
miners are given an advance in pay.
Other matters are to be arbitrated.
Robert Higgin botham, of Montgom-
cry county, died leaving no heirs. He
left $500 more than enough to balance
expenses and liabilities and that is now
in the state treasury according to law
The plant for making Irvine at the
Kansas Penitentiary, which has been
closed since July. resumes operations
this week. 1t is the intention to man
ufacture several hundred thousand
pounds.
Among the first of the postoff1ces es-
tablished in what is now Kansas, was
Kennelulx, on the old overland route.
1t was established in the 4O's, but is
rural delivery.
Carl r. Gray, formerly of the Frisco
Office in Wichita, has been appointed
superintendent of transportation of
the Frisco system.
One of the oldest Odd Fellows who
attended the grand lodge in Topeka
was Capt VIM Mathewson, who came
to what is now Kansas in 1919. He
had a trading post at Great Bend for
5-years-
The Salina city council did not ac-
cept the offer of the Barnard Manu-
featuring company to remove there
from Enterprise.
A farmer in Logan county cut his
wheat early in July and volunteer
crop came up and it headed out; racing
with the frost season to produce an
other crop of about 10 bushels to the
acre
a. T Olson, of Marguerite, was to
have been married, but is in Jail ac-
cused of forging notes to raise money
for his honeymoon
a letter has been received from, nr