The Globe-republican., 1901-10-24

large extent in portions of Kansas
The United Brethren annual confer
ence assembled in Topeka with 200
delegates.
1t is said that Doniphan county leads
in the number of farmers that have
telephones
The s. Barnum Dry Goods company
ness on the same lots for 3s years
w J. Lucas. of Ottawa. Illinois, has
just bought the Ti1linghast farm OF 81:
acres near Clearwater for S2s, 600
C. j. Young, of Marquette has sold
his last years crop and his crop of this
year of broom corn for S12o ton
Congressman ". a. Reeder, of tho
Sixth district, asks the people to select
their postmasters by local elections
Ten of the twenty-five Episcopal
churches in Kansas have been built
under Bishop MiIIspaugh's Jurisdiction
While the state meeting of the Anti
Horse thief association was in session
at independence seven horses were
stolen from close by the town
The United States attorney general
decides that the settlers the Fort
Hays military reservation have no legal
grounds to hold their claims
Judge Madden, of Lyon county, SEN
fenced George Elliott. of Neosho Rapids,
to five years in the penitentiary, and
fined him $50: all for selling liquor
The Inman state bank is refusing to
receive more money on deposit because
1T has more than it can loan and does
not want to take the responsibility for
a greater amount.
BY report of Statistical Secretary
Dixon, the Friends society in Kansas
has gained 1873 members during the
past year, making a total membership
II, oo2 at the present time
The warehouse of the Fort Scott
Pottery company is totally destroyed
by fire with loss of 50, 900. There
was strong evidence that gasoline had
been used, says the telegraph report.
The last list of Kansas towns with
500 or more population which are free
from joints includes Burr Oak, Delphos
Robinson. Effingharn, McLouth and
Nortonvi1ie- There surely must be
more.
There were 80 damage suits in the
Atchison district court at its last term,
aggregating claims of about 1901 900.
The largest was S125, 900, the claim of
grain company alleging discriminat ting
freights by the railroads
Two jointists of Winfield named
Thomas, We're sentenced in police court
on 10 counts to a fine of 500 and six
months in Jail upon each count, which
means a, jail sentence of 20 years and
fine of 81, 900 An appeal was taken
The entire crop of sugar beets gath
cred about Garden City has been sold
to the Rocky Ford sugar factory The
beets tested better than the limit of 2
per cent sugar, fixed by the Legislature
O.
beets grown in Kansas
Mrs. Lenhart, te1egrap PHI operator az
Plymouth station. found augur holes
fresh bored in the floor, evidently bored
from below. She wired to Emporia for
help, and in 40 minutes an engine
brought the sheriff who crawled under
the building and caught Ernest Stout
who was taken to jail at Emporia.
Attorney General GODDARD has given
an opinion that the law requiring
county commissioners to provide for
the maintenance of destitute widows of
veterans is valid. The question was
raised in Clay county where the com
missioners refused to follow the stat
utes, claiming that 1t was class 1egisla-
ton.
Somebody wonders whether the mex
move of the doctors trust will not be
to make it crime for anybody to be
cured by an unregistered doctor
The Kickapoo reservation is having
seige of smallpox and the towns of
Brown county have put out guards to
prevent the Indians from coming to the
towns.
A house alongside a railroad track
near Atchison has sign on it which has
been there for 20 years 1t reads:
'sThis family has been wronged by the
railroad company
The state board of charities is ar
ranging to purchase winters supply
of potatoes for the various institutions
in their charge Seven thousand five
hundred bushels are required
Edward Wagner, foreman of the gov
ernment book bindery in Manila. was
born in Topeka in 1869 and learned his
his trade there He has worked in
Salt Lake City. San Francisco. and in
Guatemala, Galveston and Denver. and
in the government printing office in