The Globe-republican., 1901-08-01
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

fair to be held August 21-23-
The Civic League of Fort Scott has
all the joints there corlxed up
On August the old soldiers of Har-
vey county viii picnic at Halstead-
Milkmen in Topeka have raised the
price of milk to seven cents a quart
Colin H. Ball, of Kansas, is made a
second lieutenant in the regular army
The Osborne Woodmen took an all
night sweat in initiating p candidates
The Farmers, Grain and Livestock
association of Butler county has been
Incorporated
A Bourbon county man claims that
in three days he cut and marketed $500
worth of hay.
Texas fever is reported from Edna,
Labette county Ben. Jarboe has lost
60 head of cattle
There is complaint in Western Kan
sas that too many cattle are shipped
there for pasturing.
On July 20 there were four deaths
from heat in Kansas City, KS, and
two the Missouri side
S n Harper had Is acres of wheat
near Menol1en, Shawnee county, which
threshed out Cos bushels
The controlling interest in the Wei
John L. Stewart by way of sale.
The retail clerks of Horton struck
for early closing and the state labor
commissioner went there to fix things
The commercial club of Anthony is
is wide awake in connection with the
northern extension of the Choctaw
railroad
Some fellow figures that the crop
$3.50, 900, 900, but Kansas is rich enough
to stand it.
The influx of slot machines from
over there, is causing Kansas towns
much pi1akea.
In Topeka the cracking of the earth
under brick sidewalks drains away the
sand the bricks are laid in and dam
ages the walks.
A we'll fixed Douglas county farmer
took his first ride a railroad train
along with bunch of cattle he was
taking to market
The Santa Fe uses from 5000 to ZOO
tons of coal a month at Topeka. At
Argentine the consumption runs from
5000 to 1900 tons.
VIII r. Spillman, of Manhattan, has
been appointed private secretary to
Washington since 1897.
The Moran Herald has discovered that
TuttirS ice cream in u glass and pour
ing pop over it is right to the front to-
gether with ice crea N soda.
The News says that the strongest
temperance lecture ever exhibited in
Hutchinson was~the taking of a drunk
en- woman from a train to the Jail.
An Oakland, Shawnee county, nur-
seryman will use steam rotary pump
with his 5000 irrigation plant, for the
benefit of twenty acres of young nur-
sery stock.
Red tape killed a man in u coal mine
near Topeka He fell down shaft
and long course of rigmaro1e among
the county health officers caused him
to lie there five hours before the coun-
ty relief authorities sent out to bring
him to town.
Rev. Richard Cord1ey, of Lawrence,
married a couple by the name of Bacon
in 1859, in that city Twelve years ago
Rev Mr.. Cordley attended the funeral
of Mr.. Bacon and has now attended
that OF Mrs. Bacon.
Charles Hoffman of Lyon county. an
ex-Confederate soldier, had a brother
in the Union army. He attempted to
personate his brother in an application
for pension and is now in Jail, with a
prospect of five years in the peniten-
tiary. Uncle Sam shows no leniency
to such frauds.
The Rock Islaed depot at Lebanon is
burned Nothing was saved except
the freight bills and books. Consider
able freight was burned.
Tt is said that one Caldwell man sold
daily a carload of beer to the home
seekers The trains stopped there 90
minutes only. At Wichita the time
between most of the connecting trains
was about two hours and all that time
a daily procession of people with bas-
kets of bottled beer was vending its
way direct from beer cars to the big
Rest crowds
A Kansas farmer read about a New
York farmer whose wheat crop was
two bushels to the acre, and he at once
offered to start a helm