The Globe-republican., 1901-12-19
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Franklin county has commenced
preparations for fair next year
a contract has been let for a county
high school for Norton county, for S12,-
600
Barton county jail at Great Bend has
leaked prisoners four times within four
month.
'sStone's Folly $40. 900 residence
near Topeka, erected during boom
times, is burned.
Syracuse has 22 charter members in
it's commercial club, All expects to
triple the number.
The postoffice at Empire is discon-
tinued and sub-station of the Ga1ena
postoffice ia kes its place
There are 70 gas and oil producing
wells around Chanute and there are
10 drilling outfits at work.
The state association of comfy clerks
will hold it's annual meeting in Hutch
inson during the holidays
The Norton Golf club has purchased
40 acres adjoining the town for their
links The price paid is So 600
Douglas county is receiving propo-
sails for a site upon which to build an
$4,000 court house in Lawrence
A man supposed to be Edward D.
Mccoy, laid down before a train at
Wilmot, Kansas, and was killed.
The poIicemen's ball at Wichita
raised enough money to buy each man
a regulation overcoat and then some.
Smith county is preparing to cele-
brate the day on which it will be thirty
years old. 1t occurs in February, 1902.
Representative BowersocIz, of Kan
sas. was a member of the committee on
euIogies to the late President McKin-
ley.
During five years ending with 1900,
Kansas harvested S37s, 433, BAT worth of
wheat and corn, outranking all other
states
Shawnee county casts more votes
than the state of Nevada, which has
two senators and a representative in
congress
A branch of the Southern Stock and
Grain Company, of St Louis, at Salina
closed account of the failure of the
company Several Salina traders may
be losers
Garden City, Ks, furnishes about all
of the employees of the Indian agency
at White Rocks, Utah. H. P. Myton,
of Garden City, is the Indian agent at
White Rocks
Ex-U. s. Senator Martins long time
home in Topeka, occupying nine lots
facing the state capitol, has been sold
for 50, 800 1t is proposed to place
city school on this property.
Edwin II. Brown, of Girard, dropped
dead while visiting his sister in Kan
sas City. He was one of the promoters
of the Union Pacific railroad and built
the Joplin line from Joplin, Mo-, to
Girard.
The district court of Finney county
took the responsibility of changing the
punctuation of the law concerning the
appeal to the supreme court of misde-
meanor cases, that it would give the
right to appeal.
D. A. Valentine, clerk of the supreme
court, is calling the attention of law
yers to the necessity of their paging
and indexing records filed in the SUI
preme court and making the proper en-
dorsements on all papers presented.
Many lawyers now fail to do this
Joseph L. Speer, a pioneer of Kansas
who has lived at Chandler, o. T., is
dead. He was killed by the wagon he
was riding in running off a bridge.
The remains were brought to Topeka
The state board of charities turned
down all bids to supply the state in
situations with -four, on account of the
advanced prices. Contracts for all
=
were distributed about equally among
Topeka. Salina, Leavenworth, Atchison
and Wichita houses and the agents of
Kansas City houses.
The town of Moran, over towards
Fort Scott, the Missouri Pacific, has
women in several public positions, in
GLIDING a school teacher, a telegraph
operator, postmistress, rural mail
carrier and the pastor of the only
church in the village
The state school fund commissioners
have at last compromised the Scott
county bond case. which have default
ed IN interest for several years. The
case had gone to the u s. Supreme
court twice and was its way there
again.
Ladies are to be admitted to the gal
1eries at the next meeting of the Kan
sas Day club, which is to be held in
Representative hall at the state house.