The Globe-republican., 1900-11-01

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The Usage City council has purchased
a new $500 fire engine
The Atchison coal. lately found, is
said to be similar to Weir City coal
Reports indicate an increase of the
wheat acreage in Western Kansas this
fall.
little live turtle in a bass he was
cleaning
A 5, 600 900 foot gas well has been
struck IL new field seven miles from
COfTeyvi1le-
Iingame and there is work there for
80 more miners
The Marion Record has IN its Office
l<afr corn ten feet high; the product of
Marion county
proposes to build a 500. coo elevator
in Topeka at once.
A Mcpherson county farmer had a
broom corn crop this season which
Melted him se2 an acre.
Bob Torrington, of Wichita has been
advanced to the position of tourist
agent of the Rock Island
The asylum contest between Parsons
and Clay Center comes before the SUI
preme court on November :.
That seven pound sweet potato in
Ed Greer-s Office may well wilt
Wichita has one weighing II pounds
One Wabaunsee county firm shipped
from Alta Vista within three days
thirty-t2vo cars of cattle. billed to Chi
cago.
Delegates to the Young Women-s
Christian Association convention filed
most of the pulpits in Topeka Octo-
Der %.
The new hospital at Winfield is com
pleted- It has 24 rooms, including
two bath rooms, and is heated by
steam.
Montgomery county has four cities
of over 1900 inhabitants. They
independence. coffeyvil1e. Cherryvale
and Caney.
in Scott City and carried away S165 and
valuable papers, but the latter have
been found in the stock yards.
Secretary Barnes says that the re-
port that blaclbirtls are damaging the
apple crop is ridiculous, that he never
heard OF apples being touched by black
birds.
The Kansas court of appeals for the
northern department has decided in a
case from Topeka that no city had a
legal right to pass Il search and seizure
liquor ordinance.
Elk Secretary of state William IIig-
gins. recently the publisher of a daily
newspaper in Ga1ena. has been APP
pointed an appraiser of Indian lands
in Indian Territory.
Mary Voelher, an employee of the
Manhattan hotel in Wichita, is going
to Germany, having been notified that
she has fallen heir to one-fourth of an
estate there. valued at 1920. 900.
There are held in the state treasury
bonds belonging to the Agricultural
college, $500, 900: to the normal school
1928. 900; to Kansas University $3.50, 900:
to the permanent school fund 81 o0O,-
600, and to the Stormont library fund
! $4,000.
The farmers of Montgomery county
have finished putting in their wheat
and are busy huslzing Early
corn is turning out well, but late corn
| is failure. scarcity of corn husl1ers
| exists there and teams are also in great
demand. The same kind of statements
! come from several places in Southern
Kansas and over the border
1. P. GrisvTold, a ranchman of West
ern Kansas, reports net profit of $21
an on his alfalfa crops of hay and
t seed, this season
Mrs Margaret Brown, aged 9s, died
| on October p, at the home of her
daughter, who is the wife of Justice
/ w A Johnston, of the supreme court
! of Kansas
Rev. Don s Colt, former pastor of
the first NJ E. church of Wichita, is
now in charge of Grace church, Ba1ti-
more, one of the finest and largest in
| the land
A county reunion of the Twentieth
Kansas and members of the Eighth
army corps was held at Girard on Oc-
| tOber 27-
The Rev. DR.. John w. Roberts died
! at his home in Oslxaloosa. October %,
thirteen days after the celebration of
his golden wedding He came to Kan
sas in 1850 and founded the Oslzaloosa
| Independent the same year.