The Globe-republican., 1900-03-15
KANSAS ITEMS or INTEREST,".

The ladies of Downs have taken the
initiative in organizing an Improvement
society
Pleasanton may have a sailing sta
ton for enc of the great picking com
Panies.
Public libraries are increasing Ster-
ling is greatly interested in the matter
just now
Western Kansas farmers are shipping
baled alfalfa to Texas at the net price
of SO per ton
The 32e state banks and Ga private
banks of Kansas had on deposit on Feb
Tuary 10 s27. 229, 517-47.
There is talk of calling grand jury
in Sumner county, where there has not
been one for thirteen years.
The establishment of the binding
Irvine plant at the Kansas penitentiary
took 100 men out of the mine.
The State Normal Mandolin club is
negotiating for five months service at
@Manitou Springs this summer
The largest in Kansas is owned
by Dick Clacl1, of Gaylord. She weighs
1900 pounds and is six feet high
The management of the Hutchinson
free library has received one hundred
volumes from Miss Helen Gould.
The penitentiary officials have fixed
the price of binding Irvine at 10 cents
a pound; sold direct to the farmers
Frank Harvey. one of the gang that
robbed the Citizens bank at Altoona
has been placed in the penitentfary on
a ten years sentence.
Horses are stin being shipped from
Dickinson county Buyers are paying
25 per cent more for horses than 4 year
r
Fred Now, living near Emporia, held
a piece of iron to Il track to see the
passing train cut it in two. The wheels
also appropriated two of his fingers.
. The state bank commissioner went
to Edgerton, Kas.. to superintend the
opening of a new bank, the State Bank
of EdgertOn, with capital OF s., 900
George Thompson. of Atchison who
has been planting wheat in Kansas for
forty-fve years, thinks crop is certain
this year. He says that wheat was
killed after March l but once in this
state, ia 1873.
I The Chanute Prospecting and Brick
Manufacturing company have struck
both gas and oil in their first well
southwest of town. The strike is con
sidered unusually important as the field
is entirely new one and heretofore
thought to be several miles a way from
both the oil and gas belt Chanute
now has good, paying wells both
sides of her. Several other companies
that have been waiting for results now
intend to commence prospecting at
once
= w Robson, PRESIDENT of the Kan
sas CattleInen.s association. has in
the cattlemen of the state expect the
suit now pending in the supreme court
to test the validity of the court OF Wis
station law to go on to q finish, not
vvithstanding the recent read justnent
of the rates by the railroads Attorney
General GODDARD had heard that the at
torney for the cattIemen, Z. Z Carver,
had said that the REIMBURSEMENT carried
with it Il dismissal OF the case. and he
wrote to President Robson for direct
information
Frank Cooper, of Jewell county, re
Gently bought :. 600 head of sheep in
New Mexico. He drove them to Kan
sas, fed them a few months and dis
posed of them the other day at Il profit
of So. 600.
Building associations are thinning
out somewhat. bJlS there are 81 doing
an 1ctive business in the state, with
more organizing
a quarantine on dairy and breeding
cattle has been established by Kansas
against most of the eastern states The
idea is to keep tuberculosis out
Money orders from the Philippines
reach Kansas postofficcs quite often
The helpful hen nets Lincoln county
an income of $4,000 a year The out
put of eggs aggregates two carloads a
week or Io4 carloads a year. Each car
load contains 400 cases, which means
the laying shipment and ultimately
the consum ption of 1900 cases l.
24s,ooo dozen eggs The average price
of eggs the year round is about cents
n dozen, which means annual in
come from Lincoln county hens OF SIS,
900.
Butler county produced corn alone,
last year, amounting to nearly s6,ooo,-
600 Its lands are in great demand
this spring