The Globe-republican., 1901-07-18


The farmers elevator at Sa1ina is
burned with $4,000 bushels of wheat
Browns general store at Alien, both
building and stock, is a total loss from
fire
that wheat in Western Kansas ripened
too fast
The railroads have gangs blowing
wheat belt.
Colonel E. c. Little. of the Kansas
Twentieth, has been given a pension
of $50 a month.
The Dold packing plant at Wichita
has been Incorporated with million
dollar capital.
The wagon trade for truck market
ing at Atchison is suspended for lack
of a local supply.
The opening interfered with thresh-
ing. as the crews all wanted to go to Ell
Reno and register.
pearl delared to be worth $500 or
$500 has been found in the Marmaton
river near Fort Scott.
VIM. Archer, of Ellinwood, was one
of the many losers by fire in the wheat
fields. He lost a threshing outfit
The Topeka mi1lcrs have commenced
their fight to compel the railroads to
esta blieh the old milling in transit
rate
Wichita wholesale shoe house
shipped in one day 4.33e pairs of shoes;
more than car load There were sci
cases.
hundred acre wheat field in Riley
county was destroyed by spontaneous
combustion The crop was valued at
ST 600.
The excursion from Wichita to Buff
falo. which had been posted for an
earlier date, has been put off until
September =
The We1ls-Fargo company are to
erect a large two story brick building
for their use just south of the Santa
Fc depot in Wichita.
Douglas county has shortage OF
about 20 teachers. Only ~ out of 70
who took examination secured high
enough grades to secure certificates
John Warner, a Riley county farmer,
was thrown from his moving machine e
and had both feet badly cnt by the
sickle His right foot was amputated-
4 Kansas contractor. J. A. McGoni-
gle, of Leavenworth has the contract
for building a twelve-story, fire-proof
brick building at Uniontovn, Pa, for
500, 900.
a goodly portion of the sympathy
felt for farmers the burning of their
wheat is more properly due the rail
roads which pay good values for the
most of it
Kansas town people unite in telling
the farmers how to save their stacks
from Gre. OF course the dry goods
box roosters would have had every
thing safe long ago.
Barton county farmers lost another
10 900 acres of wheat in second wide
fire There were buildings burned
also Many losers at this fire had
taken insurance after the first big fire
DR.. Barth. Of Wichita, has been made
the head of the meat inspection at
Topeka with six people in his force
The government has also made him
chief OF the quarantine division. with
headquarters at Topeka.
The last new addition to the Dold
| packing plant al Wichita hos floor
capacity of 1T2,s72 feet, nearly four
acres 1t is for the cooling depart
mcnt and is as by 16s feet. Six stories
| of the building are completed
/ greater than that of any tame grass,
and this crop never fails from drouth-
| Miss Rosa Preston, of Fort Scott,
has been awarded a years scholarship
| in the Chicago university valued at
| S120. There We're about 900 contest.
ants
Wyatt Stanley last spring bought
| the Treadwell ranch in kingman coun-
| ty for 800, 900, the 1000 acres of grow
ing wheat on it being thrown in. He
| harvested the grain to the value Ss5,-
| 900.
OF tie first $4,000 bushels of ~hea,
| bought by the Enterprise mills there
was none that tested less than CT
| pounds
Sheffield ingalls,. the youngest SOC
of J. J. Ingalls,, is u candidate foI
member of the next legislature from
I-ehe country district of Atehison cour
ty.
A gasoline tank used to initiate I