The Globe-republican., 1900-10-25
KANSAS rrE,rs OF INTEREST.

The first day of the Manl1ato eours-
ing meet drew together 1000 people
Everett E. Sa1ser, professor of book
keeping and penmanship at the State
Normal, is dead
Adjutant Fox's report shows that
there are now !, 295 Kansas soldiers in
the Philippines
Mrs Ellis, of Quenemo. climbed
down a well and rescued the child of
another woman
The coIored Masons of Topeka have
asked for the of the auditorium
Thanksgiving day
The eolored people of Leavenworth
are making an effort to build a hos
pital for patients of their race.
While Councilman Stevenson, of Sa-
lima, was sitting near horse the ami
NAL bit off a portion of his ear.
The imbeciIe asylum at Winfield has
costly heating plant that is worthless
and a new plant is to be put in
Building and repairing in Florence
has been so brisk that carpenters have
been secured from other towns.
The burned buildings at Douglas are
to be replaced with a handsome brick
block containing an opera house.
o. e. Parker, of CoffeyviIIe, of Com
pany G, Twentieth Kansas, has been
granted pension OF $40 month.
Mexican money increases in circuIa-
ton in Fort Scott, despite the effort is
of the police to catch the swind1ers.
There was a very large attendance
upon the Eighth District Sunday school
associations annual meeting in Hutch
inson.
The second annual excursion of the
Rock Island for homeseel1ers drew
large train1oads from Illinois, Indiana
and other eastern sections Many
went into Oklahoma and a great mum
Der to western Kansas
Prof. Vernon L. Kellogg, of Leland
Stanford university whose work on
animal Life and First Book in 10
ology,' is being adopted by high
schools, is a Kansas boy; the son of
Ex- Attorney General Kellogg.
The meeting of Kansas milIers in To-
pelza, was composed of the best of
Kansas business men and their action
regarding the defense of Kansas wheat
from Minnesota mi11ers' statements
will have weight everywhere
b. w Woodward is dead. He estab-
lished the first drug store west of Kan
sas City about 1855 and afterwards put
in a wholesale drug store in Kansas
City. Mr.. Woodward is noted for his
talent in literature and love of art.
Mr.. Vaughan, of Jewell county,
cleared about 1000 from his alfalfa
crop this year. He had 100 acres of it.
Jewell county has about Is, 900 acres of
alfalfa Mr. Vaughan says the crop
pays 10 per cent on 500 an acre land.
There seems to be something unex-
plainablc in the fact that in the third
city in size in Kansas arrests for
while in the city ranking as second in
population reports of such arrests are
every day occurrences.
superintendent Atkinson of the Phil
ippine schools proposes to send young
native teachers who can speak some
English to some of the state normal
schools He has written to President
a. R. Taylor of the Kansas Normal for
terms.
November 20 is fixed upon as the
date for the special election in Sedg-
wick county on granting bonds to the
Orient railroad.
The register of deeds of Russell coun-
ty received 1875 chatteI mortgages in
one day, to be released Their amounts
ranged from S1o.75 to IS, 900; total $780,
VIM Thomas, boy who lives on the
Pawnee, h received $50 for three
donesticated antelope which were
shipped to the Smithsonian institute at
Washington.
A Chinaman who has lived at Hia-
watha for number of years, always
puts up literally when contributions
are called for anything the town is
pushing.
w w B. Darnell. a Topeka teacher
who went to Galveston six years ago
to become a principal in the schools
there, was victim of the storm. He
left some property and his 14-year-old
son is his heir Darnells friends in
Kansas have sent DR. w. II. Hudson to
Galveston to look after the boys in
terests.
Captain VIII Watson, of P;ttsbura.
has received new leg from Washing
ton to replace the one he left in the
Philippines.
The Conway postoffice and the store