The Globe-republican., 1901-09-19

summer thunder showers visit much
OF southern Kansas frequently now
, TIE Rock Island is puteng heavy
steel rails between Wichita and Herring
ton
Two Santa Fe employees at Emperia
were discharged for smoking in the oil
house
The heavy showers of Friday and
Saturday, September 13 and Il. were
general in Kansas
Catt1emen at the Wichita stock yards
pay 50 ton for prairie hay Alfalfa
is held at S12 a ton
New York men propose to sink shafts
and build a power house at Little River
to work the salt mines
The new law requiring prescriptions
for morphine and the like seems to be
easily evaded in Kansas
Curtis Monical succeeds Chas. J. Webb
as chief clerk for superintendent Nc
Le1lan, of the Santa Fe.
]. w Robson a Butler county farm
er, has 600 acres of alfalfa and intends
to make it 1000 this year
superintendent Nelson suggests
changes in the school tax laws to make
them more equitable to the smaller dis
tricts.
Major J. w Bolus, of Fort Scott, is
| dead He had remarkable war
record. Major Bolus had lived at Fort
Scott since SOC
T. K. Thompson. of Dover. Shawnee
county. took 13 of the Is first prizes
awarded at the Nebraska state fair.
He had cattle in the other five
| clesses-
Miss Amanda O'Conner, formerly of
St Marys, has accepted the place of
first assistant in the piano department.
of the territorial university at Norman,
Oklahoma.
A bridge being built east of Caldwell
collapsed from the action of a rushing
! flood Several men who We're strength
ening the false work fell among the
twisted timoers 35 feet, below and were
| injured.
! Judge Henry c. Sluss, who has been
| judge of the United States court of
| private land claims, will have served in
| that capacity for ten years next July.
He will probably resume the practice
| of law in Wichita next summer.
/ VIM Bastain and Chas- Roth, two
| Santa Fe water service men, We're over
come by gas while working in an oil
tank at the Topeka shops and death
suited before they could be helped, or
/ even before their predicament was
! known.
The pipe organ presented to the
Presbyterian church of Junction City
by Andrew Carnegie in memory of Col
Onel John b. Anderson, was recently
set up and recital conducted. Mrs.
Anderson heard the recital at her home
in Manhattan by telephone
A young soldier of the Kansas
| Twentieth named Miles, whipped a
! Topeka socialist who was bavvling
! against the government. The next
| day Secretary Hawk, of the socialist
| organization, got out a hand bill calling
| Miles anarchist. Miles went to the
| Capital office for a reporter to go along
and get the straight scory of how he
was going to lick Hawks. The licking,
went off according to time card.
1t is noted that General J. G. CaId-
| well, who has been consul in a port of
the Gulf of Mexico for four years, has
never sent home "a piece to be printed. -
The general has record as a leader in
the battle of Gettysburg, succeeding g
Hancock in command when the latter
was wounded, and is best liked by his
closest acquaintances, yet he does not
parade before the public. General
Caldwe1ls home has been in Topeka
for many years
The city schools of Wichita opened
with enrolment on the first morn
ing OF 1864 pupils OF which mum Der
there Were 342 in the high school
Attorney General GODDARD decides
that county clerks must turn over the
81 taken for registering doctors GER
, tificates. into the general funds of the
county.
!, After celebrating their sixty-second
wedding anniversary. Mr. and Mrs J.
II. Spicer, of Neosho Falls started to
. see the sights at the Pan-American ex-
position
State Superintendent Nelson favors
: adopting the savings bank system in
the schools in this state which some
I other states have found valuable.
Prof Landson, of the Fort Scott
{ schools says that in 25 years but one
boy addicted to the cigarette smoking
habit has graduated from the schools
, of Fort Scott
DR. E. NJ Wood. who has been al