The Globe-republican., 1901-08-15

paid from the Topeka agency
A Labette county man has been fined
S35 for taking fish with a net
The old soldiers reunions at both FL
Dorado and lola have been abandoned
The last 40 ACRES of government land
in Jewell county was taken last week
1t is stated that every sheriff of Nor
ris county who has served during the
past 40 years IS still alive
The crop of dwarf broom corn in the
vicinity of Sterling is reported by farm
ers to be damaged so per cent
John w Corey, of Montgomery coun-
ty, has 40 acres of corn which he eN-
poets to yield so bushels to the acre.
David cation has commenced a suit
for divorce from his wife Carrie Ma
ton, in the district court at Medicine
Dodge.
During July the Santa Fe and Mis-
souri, Pacific each handled 200 ears
loaded with the products of the cement
mill at lola.
Along the Neosho and verdigris
rivers there are corn fields that will
yield - bushels to the acre Few Will
yield under 20 bushels.
The Kansas knights Templar win go
in body to the Louisville encanpInent
August 21. Marsha1l's band of Topeka
has been selected to accompany them
The Kansas & Texas Coal Company,
q Topeka concern, has placed an order
for ten inch drills for prospecting for
oil in the sha1e district of Western Kan
sas
The new Santa Ee machine shop at
Topeka which is being stalzed out, is to
be $50 feet long and 154 feet wide.
Preparations are being made to lay the
foundations
Labor day, September ?, will be OBJ
served in Pittsburg with jubilee in
celebrating industrial peace. Thirty
thousand miners and laborers of every
craft will assemble.
John Domain, of Edwards county,
bought quarter section for $500, with
AZ acres of growing wheat. He has
threshed 5000 worth of wheat from the
AZ acres and has pastured the rest of
the quarter.
The delay in clearing the title to the
Fort Hays reservation causes a year 5
delay in planting the branch normal
and agricultural and experiment station
there. No work will be done until the
title is perfected.
o. V Gringrass, of Harvey county .:
discharged farm hand Later there
We're five of his fine steers missing. 1t
was found that the farm hand had sold
them in Newton and Immediately taken
the fast mail train east.
Reports of fine rains come from the
southwest and grass was never better
at this time of year Many cattle have
been taken there to pasture during the
fall and winter. The stocl1men seem
to pay little attention to the order re
curing the removal of fences
w. c. Edwards, ex-secretary of sta
has yvintered cattle in Western Kansas
many years. He says wheat straw is
worth 81 a ton: that he builds stacks
with alternate layers of straw and
l1afir corn He says that the saccharine
matter is absorbed from the corn by
the straw and the cattle eat the straw
first
superintendent Nelson, of the Wichita
trolley lines is figuring on an electric
line from Wichita to Geuda Springs,
down the west side of the Arkansas
NLr- Nelson says that it would make I,
sixty minute run and could be made
Trofita BILE at the rate of so cents for the
round trip.
A general conference of insurance
agents OF Kansas held two days ses-
sion at Mcpherson.
Thieves in the southern part of Sa-
line county kill cattle in pastures and
haul them away in wagons
When the picnic dinner of the OLD
! settlers reunion at Ha1stead was ovel
and E. W. Hoch was introduced as the
| principal speaker, there were 5000 PEG
pie in the park. Mr. Hoch's address
was noted by his cheerful turning OF
| the bright side of everything TO tho
| front.
! An Arkansas City carpenter claims tt
have been offered SO day to work a
/ Lawton-
G. n. Tucker raised !, PA bushels OF
/ wheat on 81 acres of his Dickinson
| county farm.
| In the southeastern counties the most
! of the wheat will be sown this year il
| August and Will begin to provide pas
! tTI ge in September and keep doing
! the same until January Nearly every
| farm has field of kafir corn, of sor