The Globe-republican., 1901-09-12
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.


cessive ci rarette smoking.
S. P. Woodson, Jr-, the Caldwell
hotel keeper, raised $4,000 bushels of
wheat THE year on the side
The Newton public schools opened
with enrolment of 1,193. of which
1s2 were in the high school.
A man at Preston was on top of "a
windmill tower and counted thirty
three steam threshers at work
tt K. Thompson. of Dover, Shawnee
county, won three prizes on his Short
horn cattle at the Iowa state fair
All difficulties between Cottonwood
Falls and Strong City over the route of
the Orient road have been adjusted
Mrs Morton AIbaugh was injured in
a runaway in Kingman- Mr. A1baugh
had left after the cattlemen's picnic
Pittsburg claims to have had 30, 900
working men there on Labor day.
There We're 6, 900 miners in the parade.
old settler reunions have followed
the reunions of veterans and there has
been about as many of them in the
state
The missionaries under the American
Sunday School association in the cen
tral west spend a week in conference at
Topeka.
Mrs. Sherman NIcKinnis, of Republic
county, has four pairs of twins, all
living, the eldest pair not yet eight
years old
The attendance at all the veterans
reunions in the state was larger than
usual, with the exception of the state
reunion.
An excursion from Emporia to Fort
Riley took $500 people. There Were
four sections of six cars each. No stops
Were made.
The Katy officials have notified Par
sons that they will establish big car
shops there at once, with $50 men to
start with.
\ party of so Nebraska farmers came
to look over Sumner county and attend
the wheat carnival, and with a view of
buying farms
John II. Cram, a Fort Scott attorney,
had a fight with James Burton, ed
itOr of that city. 1t arose from saloon
license disputes.
c. B. Combs, of Reading, married
Miss Rose Vicl1ers, of saltwater, Okla,
Immediately after she had filed on a
claim at LawtOn.
Adjutant General Fox has issued a
revised edition of the rules and regu1a-
tions for the government of the Kan
sas National Guard.
Difficulty is experienced at Baxter
Springs in the selection of a location
for the postoffice to take the place of
the building recently burned
Mrs Stansbury, of Coffeyville, has
sued the liquor sellers of the town for
$50, 600 damages, alleging that they
made her husband drunkard-
Larkin Heron, whose home is at
Oxford, was playing as pitcher for the
Arkansas City Grays, when he fell dead
1t is thought he burst a blood vessel
while sliding to a base
d. R. Gordon, of Dickinson county,
offered a 25-acre field for $40 an acre
He raised alfalfa on the land and took
two cuttings of hay and one seed crop
from it, the whole bringing $50 an acre
S45 acre after paying all expenses
There will be still another light hay
crop.
Another large number of non-union
miners arrived at Pittsburg on Labor
day to work in the Big Four mines
The companies posted notices offering e
their old employees the same wages and
the same conditions which have been
in force heretofore
Labor day, September ?, was mad
vertently set for the award of contracts
for work the state house, but Gov
ernor Stanley decided to observe his
own proclamation asking everybody to
rest on that day and the opening OF
bids was deferred
A NJ Sagar, aged 81 years, whose
home is in Cherryvale, was stabbed
and killed by Riley Sma1wood in a
saloon in Tacoma, Washington
The recruiting station at Salina,
since it was established on May Is, has
examined 127 applicants and enlisted
- of them; 25 of these We're enlisted
during August
Pastures of Reno and Kingman coun-
ties recovered after the dry weather
but stock water is scarce and in some
places not to be had This causes re-
mova1 of herds
A lot of people of Parsons got scared
and put in their winter hay at SO and
and S13 a ton Soon after loose hay
was worth 81 and baled hay Ss there.