The Globe-republican., 1901-08-08
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST

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company.
The rains have been the most general
in the eastern part of the state where
it was most needed
Shawnee county returned to the as
SCISSORS the most money on hand, with
Crawford county second.
Wind and hail did damage in the
vicinity of Bavaria, Saline county, dam
aging 0Ine wheat stacks
The Santa FEES libraries for its EN-
employees at numbers of division sta
tons, contain 1O, 900 books.
Atchison printers say that the tax
list they are setting now is the short
est Atchison county ever had.
The floods injured the foundation of
a new building in Topeka, being erect
ed for wholesale grocery firm.
Emporia cannot stand the odor and
has ordered the chicken killing estab-
1ishment outside the city limits.
An Emporia man has been arrested
for killing fish in the river with
Stacked lime. He was selling the fish
E. Kirby, who has been running the
Park hotel at Dodge City, shot and
killed his wife, during a dispute aSout
property
was one of the last to register as Ell
Reno and his name came out among
the first.
Ex-Congressman John Davis died at
the home of his daughter at Topeka.
He was "A years old and had been blind
for several years
Farmers are planting forage crops
extensively; much so that they call
upon the state employment agency to
send them men.
Mrs Elizabeth Burrovves, of Garnett,
has a son visiting her after a separa
ton of % years. The son is Presby
terrain minister.
Thad Payne, formerly with the Santa
1e at Topeka, is now private secretary
to Russell Harding, general manager
of the Missouri Pacific.
Orders which the stocl<men had made
for cars to move Kansas cattle have
been quite generally countermanded
since the heavy rains.
Records kept at Kansas university
show that July, 1901, was the warmest
month during the "a years in which
record has been made
The pavement in front of the Com
mercia1 bank of Independence, is a
single block IL inches thick, % feet
long and 10 feet wide
T. NJ. Benson-s barn near Hackney,
Cowley county, was destroyed by light
ming, with its whole contents. includ-
ing a horse and mule
Three men were injured by the Civ
ing way of scaffold at the Ingalls,
school building in Wichita. They
We're: Julius Walters, contractor: Mr..
Shottle, bricklayer. and Cairo Owens,
negro.
A threshing crew spent Sunday at
Colwich and kept the place in up
roar, during the 80 or 40 hours they
We're there. They insu1ted ladies,
fought among themselves and with the
men of CoIwich.
} The Rock Island purchased 500 acres
ut Mcfarland and is building hay
barns, sheds and corrals, also a water
tank 20 feet wide and 60 feet tall; all
for place to give sheep rest their
Journey to market
One hundred and twenty-three PEG
pie took examinations at the close Oh
the Sedgwicl1 county teachers insti
tute.
j. II. Dow, the Oldest citizen of Olathe
md for years the owner of the largest
store there, was found drowned 1t Is
believed to be a case of suicide Mr.
Dow was n bachelor
James r. Woods, the young man
from Kansas, drew two prizes in the
new country: the first was a wife, ans
the next was the first choice Of 100 acre
in the Lawton land district
p. W. Zimmerman of the Santa T.
claims attorneys Office, has been ap
pointed travelling claims adjuster Will
headquarters at Albuquerque.
The Woodman's picnic at Circlevil
drew 5000 people Governor Stanle.
was there There We're two good bands
the Onaga band and the Girl band o
Wetmore.
The state board of medical registra
tion has done something 1t has turne
into the state treasury 3, 2so.T6 of col
1ected fees What their own bills ar
is not stated
Evening<dress suits fooled both Coy
ernor Stanley and Lieutenant Governo
Richter. They attended a weddin
and when they were on the trolley ca