The Globe-republican., 1901-08-15
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The Katy ticket sales at Parsons in
July amounted to Sc, 400 10; more than
double the sales in July last year
Fredonia and BeIoit have each seven
rural delivery routes. No other Kan
town has SO many Topeka has six
w H Barnes state secretary of hor-
ticulture, is to speak on ttOrcharding in
Kansas before the National Apple
Shippers convention at Toronto, Can
ada
Miami county has sold a good many
cattle and hay is worth S12 a ton Good
crops have been the rs1le heretofore and
there viii be no new mortgages result
ing from the drouth.
Or Rafter, who was major surgeon
of the twentieth Kansas, has been re-
tired from the hospital service at Man
lila and viii return to Kansas. making
his home at Ho1ton.
Miss Julia r. Pearce a Kansas vvo-
man, has been appointed ana1ysist
OF soil IN the department of agriculture,
Washington She got the position be
cause of her experience.
There is plenty of stock feed IN Atchi-
son county. Many corn fields VIII
turn out 80 to 40 bushels to the acre,
and the crop of the county will average
10 bushels. astures are renewed
Jackson county farmers are encour-
aged as their corn viii make more grain
than was expected and abundance
of fodder. Many of them are planting
beans, kafir corn and COW peas
A meeting at Fort Scott of {, 500
people adopted resolutions demanding
that Rev Frazer and others who are in
sisting upon the enforcement of the
prohibitory law leave the city. Ar
engagements were made for a committee
of so to see to the execution of the res
Olution.
Both Calvin Titus and Albert Sonich-
orphans under the guardian
ship of the probate judge of Sedgwicl1
county. Titus scaled the wall of Pelzin
and Sonichso1- was with Lieutenant
Gilmore prisoners of Filipinos. He es-
capped and was the main feature in the
final rescue OF the Gilmore party.
Three girls OF Wellington, Terra Cor
der, Lillian ana Clara French, Were in
buggy which was into by buck
ster wagon The runaway resulted in
very danger cusly 1njuring Miss Corder,
and severely lnjuring Clara French.
Lillian French was thrown into the
eight feet but was not injured.
Harper county is expected to have
this year ,, 900 to 900 bushels of corn.
1t had a bumper wheat crop Kafr
corn and cane are largely planted. The
general practice OF grazing winter
wheat makes the demand for other
feed small This is the most profitable
year for the farmers of Harper county
of the 23 years of its history since SCI
Element
There are quite a number of citizens
of Kansas who hold some Office. who
have drawn claims in Oklahoma There
are others who took notaries' com1-lis-
sions while there and in applying fer
them declared themselves citizens of
Oklahoma. They now have to meNt
the legal opinion, which seems to be
uudisputed, that, taking such commits
sions and maintaining the required res
idence on claims, in either case ends
their citizenship in Kansas, and also
vacates their official positions.
The Wichita packing house is work
ing extra time to supply the new
towns in Oklahoma with sausage n.d
boiled ham.
The regular annual wheat jubilee at
Wellington Will occur September "a to
2s. Sumner county produced from
1850 to 1900, IS, 3S4 ,51S bushels of wheat.
For several years Sumner county pro
duced one per cent of the crop, of Amer
lea, and for the past ten years has gro
duced more wheat than any other coun-
ty in the United States, and holds tina t
record for 1901.
1t is said that lightning started ten
prairie fires in Gray county. three OF
which did considerable damage.
Butler county had only 16, 900 acres
of wheat It does not claim to rank as
wheat county. The county has Is, 600
acres of alfalfa The corn acreage this
season was 156, 900 acres, some of which
will make from Is to = a crop Then
there is 90, 900 acres of kafir corn and
10000 acres of sorghum which have all
held up well and Will make good crops
Thousands of acres of wheat and rye
will be sovvn for pasturage.
There is plenty of forage in Wabaun-
see county Farmers planted forage
crops in the dVyest time which is now
coming on
Frank AIil1iken, of Santa Fe is to be
aDDOinfed register of the DODGE Citx