The Globe-republican., 1900-08-02

September g.
New Workers are in Kansas trying
to contract for hay.
Dickinson county is shipping water
melons east and north.
The log rolling at Ga1ena brought
out immense gathering
Expenses of Shawnee county during
the past year We're $50. 15o-7O-
The Seventh Z. s. battery left Fort
Riley on rush orders for China
The Emporia Avenue NJ. E. church
in Wichita is to have s., 900 addition
Arthur Stewart, OF Dickinson county,
had his foot badly cut with a pillow
share.
The Shawnee county poor farm has
32 people there; the smallest number in
five years
Sedewick county and the city of
Wichita both work prisoners at break
ing rock.
The twenty ninth session of the Kan
sas Grange is to meet at Manhattan,
Dec. IL, next.
Fritz the Twentieth Kansas dog,
was killed at Coffeyvi1le- His skin
was mounted.
Norton county has no physician and
there is smaller percentage of deaths
than in any other Kansas county.
August 20 is appointed by Governor
Stanley to hear applications for par
don. There are 125 cases on the dock
et
Three miles from Seneca is a $50, 900
Catholic church, and six miles from
WestnIore1and "a still finer one is being
built.
The Kansas delegates say that the
cation at Kansas City came from Mas
sachusetts.
CattIemen of Stevens county are or
gained and have offered a standing
reward of 500 for the conviction of
cattle thieves.
The Dickinson county parties who
went to Cape Nome, are returning.
One of them got 81 worth of gold by
working five days.
According to certain business di-
rectory Leavenworth leads in the num-
Der of joints, with Atchison second and
Wichita in the third place.
This beats them all. DR. Milton of
Ford county has threshed ten acres of
wheat which averaged so bushels to
the acre and tested "a pounds
Cary Aikens, a catt1enan at Hoyt,
Kas., was thrown from a horse and his
skull fractured. Physicians say that
he cannot recover. Later: he died.
The penitentiary Irvine plant Is
changing some machinery to
make Irvine suitable for binding corn
shocks, and the new product will be
ready for market very soon.
Joseph Lewis, of Topeka is 90 years
old. His family settled near where
Topeka is now in 1912. He served in
the Black Hawk war, the Mexican war
and the civil war. He, at the age of 8,
witnessed the burning of all the rest
of his fathers family by Indians He
is still strong man.
Two children of T. J. Duncan. of
Mitchell county, one a girl of 10 and
the other boy of IA. rented 100 acres
of wheat ground They plowed the
ground with riding plows, the girl
narrowed and the boy followed the
drill. Harvesting and threshing were
| hired The crop was 1000 bushels of
81 pound wheat.
VIM. Holman's threshing machine
| was burned near Lincoln Center. Loss
So, 900.
A Ford county farmer reports yield
| of 43 bushels to the acre of his field of
wheat.
w. e. Boggs, of Saline county,
L
| yielded Al bushels per acre. The wheat
| tested 621z pounds to the bushe1.
A juror at MCPHERSON boarded with
| a poor widow. He circulated a sub
scription and raised enough money to
| connect her home with the waterworlxs.
L. NJ Beebe, of Norwich. clipped
| 1920 pounds of wool from his sheep
last week. at the present price the
| wool is worth So, 117.6o.
Independence has negotiations pro-
crossing for the removal of a glass
factory to that place from Marion. In
diana The factory will employ 100
men.
Captain o. S. McAleSander, who
went to China with General Chaffee, is
a Kansas man. His wife remains with
her sister, Mrs j. D. Milliken. at Nc
| PhersOn.
The federal courts have ordered exc