The Globe-republican., 1901-12-19

Business men of Howard have organ
lied a comercial club
Chicken burglars are being arrested
in Sedgwick county
John Guthrie has been re-appointed
postmaster at Topeka
1t is proposed to create the office Of
city auditor for Topeka
The smeIter at Argentine is to be shut
down permanently on February L.
Sheffield Ingalls, name is on one
slate for state insurance commissioner
The Keystone -four mill at Sterling
burned on December 6. Loss about
SIS, ooo-
Henry Heitfe1t, s. Senator from
Idaho, lived at Seneca, Kas-, for over
20 years.
There We're only 1877 cases of small
pox in Kansas during November, two
of them fatal.
Wellington has contracted for an ice
plant, to be ready to commence produc-
ton on April L.
W. A. Johnston has just completed
his 18th year as associate justice of the
supreme court.
Matthias Garthofer, of the National
Soldiers home at Leavenworth, was
frozen to death.
Ga1ena reported the mercury as
standing at 1s degrees below zero at
p. n. of December 13.
Zinc ore has advanced another dollar
and Kansas men interested in its pro-
duction are jubilant.
The Methodist church at Wensvil1e
is burned. The loss is about So, 500
with So, 900 insurance.
According a new city directory
about to be issued at Topeka, the popu-
lation of that town is 40, 165-
The total of taxes paid in Shawnee
county is $729, o21.os, of which the
Santa Fe railroad pays SIT, 1oe Os.
Wallace Thompson win represent
Washburn college in the state orator.,
cal contest next spring at Winfield.
The total assessment value of proper
ty in Shawnee county is SIG, SIT $50 and
the total debt, all bonded, is S615, 900.
A dispatch from Kansas City states
that the lowest temperature reported
from Kansas was at Emporia, 16 de-
grees below zero.
Walter Bird, of Montgomery county,
who struck Harry Linton with a ball
bat from which Linton died, has been
sentenced to 81 years in prison.
brothers at Cottonwood Falls resulted
in more than 200 conversions. The
population of the town is about 500.
Shawnee county's taxes for 1901 are:
State taxes, $50, 191.61; city taxes, S17o,'
725. A; county taxes, seas, 100. 73; town
ship tax, $24 ,o7o rs; school district tax,
5000, $40. SIS; total, S729, O21.O S.
One Fredonia gas company has two
wells with immense flow of gas and
is drilling more wells. A line of pipes
was laid miles to the city and gas
furnished for fuel within 72 days from
the time the company got the franchise.
The state board of railroad commits
sioners has made a final order prohib-
iting the Katy road from crossing
the Frisco yards in Columbus Under
this ruling the Katy will either have
to use the Frisco depot the usual
terms or build a depot
A I'll. Burtis, of Garden City, special
agent of the United States land de-
partment, says that the order Of tho
department. regarding the tearing
down of fences surrounding govern.
ment land is being complied with by
western cattlemen, and that most all
the fences, to which objections were
raised, have been torn down
JOS Smith, pioneer of Norton
| county, crawled through a wire fence
with his gun which was discharged,
killing him instantly.
Representative Fowler, of New Jer-
sey, lived in Be1oit, Kansas, in the early
SOS. He is with Mr.. Calderhead, OF
Kansas, on the committee of banking
and currency
Nell Adams, young farmer of Smith
county, killed himself few weeks
after his marriage He was interested
| in contested will and was respondent
over the Will being broken in court.
State superintendent Nelson has
| called meeting of the county superin-
| tendents, at his office for December &c,
| to discuss questions relating to the inn
provement of the common schools.
Avery Turner is to go to the Pecos
| Valley division of the Santa Fe as its
superin tendent, to succeed D. H.
| Nichols, who comes to Arkansas City
| to take the place of manager of the