The Globe-republican., 1901-03-14


Fredonia on March 10.
The E1ks' circus at Fort Scott Melted
lodge almost 81 00O.
Judge Theodosius Botkin denies that
he is going to Utah to live.
The Santa Fe ice house at Florence
is urned 1t was full of ice.
The Leavenvorth postonce sold S7s,-
worth of stamps in February.
An Osborne county has a team or
mules that has served him for "a years
Topeka is having one of t he dirtiest
tricky municipal campaigns in its his
tory.
John Seaton will again be a candi-
date for governor on a resubmission
issue.
The law to provide seats for women
clerks viii be in force as soon as pub
1ished-
A Kingman miller gets orders for
flour from Philadelphia in three car
load lots.
The Wichita mattress factory re
ceives its supply OF cotton in lots of
five carloads.
Warden Jewett says he started with
the Office of police judge and landed in
The p-enitentiary.
The mill at Halstead took in $4,000
ush of wheat in four days, paying
50 cents a bushel.
An elevator of 10000 bushels ca
pacity at Clearwater will be ready for
use in a short time.
An end was burned out of a Touring
mill at Hope. which caught from a hot
box in the machinery.
Chicken farmers in Ness county get
IS cents for capons in Denver, when
ordinary chickens sell for half as much.
The first reported prosecution under
the Hurrel1 law occurred in Sa1ina. A
saloon was raided and Il considerable
stock was co~nfiscated.
Farmers find that the written per
mits they give range to hunt on
their premises are liable to turn up as
promissory notes in some bank.
The Hutchinson school board has de
cided to provide a truant school,, to
which to transfer unruly scholars, and
to gather in young loafers on the
streets
Heavy rains and hail are reported to
have occurred on March Q 'a1l over
Kansas" amounting in some places to
almost a c1oudburst. This sounds
strange in Kansas.
An administrator of an estate in
Cow1ey county made settlement there
of recently and divided among the
heirs more money than the estate in
voiced when he was appointed.
A drilling outfit has commenced
sinking a hole at Ottawa near the Syl-
van Springs If gas is not found at
that place the Ottawa gas Prospecting
company will try a number of other
| ~11ooS onofro1in~ tho kown
The legislature provided for an agent
in every county of the state to hunt
homes for children of the orphans
home. They are appointed by the
state board of charities, and are to re.
ceive SO a day for time employed.
Among Mr.. C~arnegie's latest is the
promise of s25. 900 for a library build
ing and a new library for Lawrence
In all his library contributions there i.
a provision for the receiving city tc
provide we'll for the maintenance O
the library.
Two highwaymen held up six mer
in one store at Olpe, Lyon county, ant
robbed them. The six men were ther
marched to another store and guard ed
while two more men were robbed
there. The eight men and four other
were then marched to a bridge at tn,
edge of the town and told to git"
Judge Theodore Botkin, of Hu1chin
son, is said to have decided to remov,
to Utah and settle either in Ogden o
Salt Lake City
f. NJ. Rea, postal clerk on the Engle
wood branch of the Santa Fc. wa in
jured while switching at Ashland H
will have to lay off for some time
The high winds which were genera
on March 4 was a hurricane at McPheI
son, where the new round house jus
completed by the Missouri Pacific wa
demolished, its large timbers bein
twisted and broken.
Mrs Grant Gillette is in Kansa.
She says that the recent stories abou
her are untrue; that he is nc
expecting to come back to Kansas soor
that he has charge of a mine in Mexic
and is doing we'll
The $4,000 appropriated to pay tn
Quantren raid claims win all go to :
persons who have bought up the p
claims