The Globe-republican., 1901-03-14
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST

house and 100 senate bills
Wilder 5 AIetca1f, of Lawrence, led
one of the divisions in the inaugural
parade.
The penitentiary wagon trade bin
died in the committee on mines and
mining.
Train loads of lola cement are being
shipped to fill orders from New Or
leans.
The bill was passed authorizing
county boards to purchase and use
voting machines.
During the late snow storms a cen
trail Branch train was Il hours getting
over AZ miles of track.
Morris Fraley, of Brown county. is
still living on the 16o acre claim which
he p~re-empted in 1857
A gas has been organized
at Sedan and the work of drilling will
m immediately.
Capt Schilling, ex-senator from
Brown county, is still considered to be
in a dangerous condition.
Alfred Harrison, of Ell Dorado, usu-
ally takes a trip every year, and this
year expects to visit Hawaii.
A Spring Hill woman on her death
bed told her where to find
hCE Savings amounting 10 StOOs
Two hundred and fifty resident and
visiting citizens of Kansas attended a
reception to Senator J. R. Burton
Judge David Martins remains We're
taken to Mechanicsburg, Ohio, to be
buried beside those of his parents.
Cities of the first class are authorized
by the new law to pay them mayor $4,000
year and councilmen 5000 a year
The state board of health reports
about 1000 cases of smallpox in the
state, fully one half of them in Craw-
ford and Cherokee counties.
Judge E. b. Jewett will remain at
the head of the Wichita postofice force
at least until sometime in May, before
actively assuming his position as war
den of the p~enitentiary.
At a gathering of farmers wives at
a farm house in Riley county, fifteen
in number, near neighbors, eleven of
them had travelled abroad, through
Europe, Egypt and the Holy Land.
At the oratorical contest at Ottawa
Robert Loofburrow, OF Baker Univer-
sity, won first place, and John c. Quinn,
of Ottawa University, second. The
Baker man was only one point ahead.
The Frisco depot at Arkansas City
has been robbed by blowing up the
safe, and S5es in checks and $40 in cur
rency taken. The robbers threw the
checks away and they were recovered.
AS there are some who think the BIZ
ennial election law of county officers is
unconstitutional, a case will be pre-
pared with the view of having the su
preme court pass upon the question
before the full election.
There will occur something not alto
gether agreeable to the hoodlums who
break mail boxes on rural delivery
routes and use them as rge Severe
punishment is provided for destroying
them, by federal laws.
Under the law creating free employ
ment agencies the control of tina bust
ness is taken away from the cammis-
sioner of labor and given to a new state
officer, appointed by the governor,
with a salary of 81, 200 a year with $500
for office expenses.
G. Christensen once lived in Marshall
county. He is now a prisoner in St.
Helena, having been captured while
serving under General Cronje, the Boer
Hereafter Sumner and Montgomery
counties will have township registra
ton of voters Its success there will
likely extend the system to all border
counties.
Walter Scott, of Atchison, who was
at work at Fort Leavenvorth on anew
building, fell from the roof and broke
his neck. He died at the Fort Leaven
worth hospital
The cooperative store at Canton ha.
been broken into and burglarized bu.
nothing was missed save a few cents
taken from the money drawer, and tn,
hand car which the thieves went OF
with.
Mrs. w. d. Clay. of Wellington. be
ing affected with a disease of the heart
had been warned to avoid excitement
She wa frightened by the scatterin,
of a trash fire in the yard by the wind
but controlled herself for 4 time. bu
when about to sit down to dinner sh
fell dead.
The Legislature appropriated $3.50
to start the litigation upon the Arkan
sas river water supply for irrigation
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