The Globe-republican., 1901-02-07
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The new 5000 bushe1 elevator at |
Harper is completed
16o acre farm in Nemaha county
sold recently for 81, 800.
A Lindsborg mill will ship $40 bar
rels of flour to Venezuela.
Forty Mormon missionaries are at
work in Kansas at this time
The farmers near Solomon propose to
buy an elevator at that place
a carload of poultry shipped to
San Francisco from Larned last week.
The Lyons Roller Mills, at Lyons.
are burned, with loss of SIS, 900; in
surance 81, 500.
Senator Harris. it is reported. has
sold his Linwood farm to Geo. II.
Adams, of Denver.
Another train load of horses was
shipped from Bismarl1 Grove, enronte
to Africa, on Jan 20.
When Bill Hackney returned to Win
field he was met by delegation of
citizens with a brass band.
The clerks Of the district courts of
the state met in Topeka last week.
They have salary complaint.
The government census gave Topeka
population of 33,eos; the assessors
reported that they found 36.7s2.
had the fracas with Mrs Nation lost
their all in the Galveston storm.
Geo. H. Tucker, of Eureka, respond
to the toast of honor, Kansas at the
Kansas Day banquet in Topeka.
Mark K. Powell, deaf mute, was
knocked from a westbound track, inside
of Wichita, and seriously injured
The Santa Fe has added a tinware
department to its Topeka shops and
Will manufacture its own tinware.
The snow of February 1st and end
was quite general over Kansas, and is
considered valuable for the wheat.
The officers of the Kansas National
Guard are asking the legislature for
SIS, 900 for an encampment in 1902.
The young men of a Saline county
neigborhood got together and drove the
lightning rod sharps out of the county
Rev. Pease, an aged Presbyterian
minister, of Wichita, is crazy over Mrs.
Nations doings, and is confined in
all.
Ii. Stuclkey. of Sedgwick county,
was awarded gold medal for his dis
play of white ear corn at the Paris ex-
position
An oil tank wagon at Beloit caught
fire near the Standard Oil depot. The
team and wagon were destroyed and
the driver was badly burned. The
tank did not explode.
Andrew Carnegie is to buy pipe
organ for the Presbyterian church at
Junction City a memorial to ex-Con-
gresham Anderson, who was once the
pastor of that church.
A new elevator in Wichita between
the tracks of the Santa Fe and the
Rock Island, is totally destroyed by
fire. 1t had n capacity of 10000 bush
els of grain and it was nearly full.
Half a dozen people were injured in
n SaIina barber shop by the explosion
of gasoline lamp. Rev George Ca1d-
well, a United Brethren minister, may
die. People who were passing We're
blown into the street and cut by flying
glass
Charles H Nettles, who official
court reporter when C. J. Foster was
U. s. district Judge, and later an ex-
pert stencgrapher. a city councilman
and probable candidate for mayor OF
Topeka, died at his home in Topeka
on January 2s-
Thayer, Neosho county. expects a
special train of Il emigrant cars from
Iowa to come to Thayer soon Each
car will carry the goods of one family
and coach in the rear will carry the
IL families. All of these people will
locate on farms near Thayer.
Herman Newman. of the senior. class
of Friends university. has been graz
a $500 scholarship in Havcrford college
of Philadelphia
Mr. and Mrs Eli jah Hughes. of To
relxa, celebrated their 65th wedding
anniversary. He is an old soldier ant
has lived in Kansas since 1856. H
owns much property and, although 81
years old, looks after all of his owl
business affairs.
Walter c. Stephens, the speaker o
the Oklahoma house of Representatives
~-as raised in Mitchell county, Kansas
The new Rock Island depot at Aim
was burned last week. 1t was built
few months ago after its predecesso