The Globe-republican., 1900-02-22

TO nave new county
jail the coming summer
Lawrence has good roads conven-
ton appointed for March 10.
Ten inch ice has been put up at q urr
Oak and II inch ice at Dispatch
Much California fruit is in passage
on the Santa Fe these cold days
A great scarcity of box cars is re-
ported on the middle division of the
Santa Fe
Seven quarter sections have just been
sold, lying south of Goddard, at So, 500
quarter.
The Santa Fe has been sending much
material into Oklahoma Of late, for
new track
Mrs Mary Stewart. of Mulvane, has
lived in three centuries, she was 100
years on February IA.
Robert Farrar, of Frankfort. has
been appointed head gardener at the
Topeka insane asylum.
Horse dealers ar& taking all the good
horses offered and at good prices and
are shipping them east.
Among new rural delivery routes an
nounced are two in Jewell county and
one in Wyandotte county.
The cattlemen and lumbermen hold
a conference in the executive office at
the state capital on Feb. %
Ottawa entertains delegates from
local knights of Pythias lodges of
twenty-five towns, February 21 and p.
John Taylor. the wealthiest resident
of Dickinson county IS dead He and
his sons owned 1000 acres of fine farms
and be had extensive realty interests
in Cincinnati.
Senator Thurston has a bill to bring
about revision of and adjustment of
the sales of the Otoe and Missouri lands
in Kansas and Nebraska. 1t is proba-
BILE that congress will take early action
Lincoln is having a building boom.
Besides the new court house there are
seven business houses being crested;
one of them to have a Masonic temple
in the second story. They are being
built of Lincoln county stone.
Effective February 20 the rate from
Kansas City to Galveston on grain for
export is 13 cents and corn II cents per
100 pounds. This is a reduction of )
and cents per 100, and the same re-
auctions will be made from all country
points.
Ten counties in the state have failed
to pay the first half of their taxes this
year and Treasurer Grimes sent a letter
to the treasurer of each county asking
him to remit. Over half the counties
have not only paid the first half, but
also good portion of the second.
Congressman Bowersocl1 is asking
congress to expend s., 600 to repair the
road leading out of Fort Scott to the
national cemetery. Nearly 1000 vet
Grams of the Mexican, civil. Spanish and
Filipino wars are buried in this GENE
terry, and it is kept up beautifully by
the government
A special session OF the legislature,
once upon a time, when there was
drouth on the western border, gave
counties out there seed grain. The
counties furnished farmers and took
their notes Many of the notes still
unpaid and the counties are talking
about bringing suits
The Kansas delegates to the nationa1
pure food and drug congress, in Wash
ington March : are: Willard Bigelow,
Gardner; w. f. Jensons Beloit; B. w.
Woodward. Lawrence; J. Z. Greenlee,
Hutchinson; Thomas D. Hubbard,
Kimball: S. d. banner, Newton; w. A
Smith. Wilson: Charles H. Beers, HOxie:
William Green, Topeka: Charles f
Keffer, Atchison-
A Burr Oak man shipped a thousand
bushels of popcorn last week 1t was
all raised by one man. The Burr Oak
dealer paid 60 cents a busheffor it.
Superintendent Frank Nelson has
the naming of three young men or vvo-
men of Kansas for free scholarships in
the Methodist law school at Nashville
| Tennessee
| All the bridge inspectors of the Santa
/ F7e proper will be relieved from service.
Their work will henceforth be done
under the direction of the foremen CT
the bridge erecting gangs
DIR. T. A. Aderhold. a graduate OF
the Topeka Capital Carrier gang, and
! at the same time, of Washburn college,
has gone to be surgeon in the Boer
army, with the rank of captain
Eight miles from Wichita is the
| Cartwright chapel When the janito1
| went to prepare the place for services
he found everything inside that could
be broken was broken. Carpet gone