The Globe-republican., 1901-05-30

The Wolff packing house in Topeka
is to be doubled in capacity this sea-
son
A steamer has been put in service
between Arkansas City and Geuda
Springs.
factory has been established in
Rice county for the manufacture of
concrete fenceposts-
The annual meeting of the Kansas
Druggists in Topeka was attended by
about 300 druggists
Atchison is said to have a man who
never laughed aloud. There is another
one running bank at Cheney.
VIM. Sharon. a Barber county farm
er, has invested $1,000 recently in an
addition of Is registered cattle to his
herd
At the debate in Emporia between
the normal schools of Kansas and Ne
braska, the debaters from Nebraska
won.
Gas has been struck near Sedan at a
depth of $50 feet which is 800 feet less
than former gas finds in paying guam
Titles.
Hail destroyed the wheat about Ba-
varia, Saline county. in a territory
about four miles square. The land
will be planted in corn.
There are successful pecan orchards
in Rice county Mrs Thomas Parks
planted the first one and she is now
getting good profit from it.
The traqeling libraries sent out from
the state library are proving to be very
popular in the neighborhoods which
have acquired the library habit -
Riley made practice march to Topeka
and went into camp there for several
days and gave some exhi bition drills
Ed King, the Santa Fe engineer who
went back to Mexico. to prison to de-
mand an immediate trial, has not been
heard from since by his Wichita friends.
The stone pavilion erected in Maple
Grove cemetery, Wichita, by the W. r.
c. No. 40, is now completed and dedi-
Gated to the unknown dead in unknown
graves.
A justice of the peace at Eureka
dered the mayor to be ousted from
Office for not appointing an old soldier
street commissioner. The mayor
gave an appeal bond
A Cherokee county man sued another
for damages from the bite of a bull
the suit by the jury The costs were
several hundred dollars.
There is one. at least. bogus deputy
marshal svindling people in Kansas.
There are but three bona fide deputy
deputy u. s. marshals in the state;
they E A Prescott of Topeka, w.
c. Mooney of Fort Scott an i c. E. Car
rol of Wichita.
The division superintendent and the
roadmaster of the Missouri Pacific
residents of Wichita, now use gaso-
line motor bicycle for their inspection
trips over the road It makes speed
of 35 miles an hour when it is desired
to make that time. In trial trip it
was five miles in eleven minutes. >
The women of Eureka have organ
lied a town improvement society. The
ladies Of the city club recently raised
money for public library and have
turned it over to the city. Eureka has
a woman doctor and two women pho
tographers-
Farm lands in Labette county have
advanced in price from Is to p per
cent and the demand for them has
raised from so to as per cent. A hun
dred residences, mostly of the better
class. have been erected in Parsons
during the past year.
The Arkansas City council has re-
duced the salary of the mayor to 81 90
a year and that of councilmen to 70
cents year.
Smith county wheat looks fine, corn
a little slow. Considerable land is sell
ing, mostly to home people Deposits
in banks of the county are a million
and half dollars
Real value in Ottawa county farms
has advanced 10 to % per cent within
IL months; valley land selling from SIS
to $40 acre; same land a year ago
held at SO to $40
\ $4,000 rectory is to be built by St
Johns Episcopal church in Wichita.
The sum of $1,000 was raised in a few
moments after the subject was preached
at the close of service on Sunday by a
member.
The state prison binding Irvine plant
sends out two or three carloads of
Irvine every day Farmers are giving
this brand the preference
Farming and grazing lands in Oss