The Globe-republican., 1901-03-21

Ellsworth is experiencing a great re- /
Isgious revival.
Wabaunsee county people fixed /
March Is for the closing of saloons
Tho county clerk of Osborne county |
has resigned to go to work on his farm |
James Goforth was found dead in his |
bed at Burden He was co years old
and respected citizen
The Excelsior water mill at Burling
ton has been sold to C. D. Parker, of
Kansas City, for S11 900
The premiums collected by two east
ern life insurance companies in Kansas
in 1900 amounted to s755,6es-
Kansas already has 1s7 rural deliv-
cry mail routes, with others being
added. Missouri has only 81
The Manhattan library association
has sold 200 shares at So each, with
which to start public library.
The annual convention of the Chris
tan churches of the Seventh district
opened in Wichita on March r.
Jerry Simpsons recent sale of cattle
amounted to s7,223-5o- and with the
exception of one small note the sale
was for spot cash
The state board of charities is expect
ed to let the contracts for the new in
sane asylum at Parsons soon. The
plans are completed.
The commissioners OF Shawnee coun-
ty have levied two mill tax for max
ing better roads; the first action re-
ported under the new 1aKx.
At a shorthorn sale at Mania ttan
Cordelia-s Knight, a yearling bull sold
for $3.50. Lady Mary SO was the high
est priced COW, selling for S2fe-
Two veins of rich coal have been
struck at Mound City: one of them is
five feet thick at depth of 300 feet,
and six feet thick at depth of $50
| feet.
a woman who formerly lived in Eu-
! rela, now in Denver, has been awarded
a 81 900 prize by a Philadelphia firm
for the best essay the medical pro-
| fession.
\ New England teacher in Kingman
county gave sentence to a class to
diagram: The COW came in covered
with sweat OF course there was
laughter.
Some cattle in Western Kansas have
not been been fed anything during the
| winter and most of them have had to
| be fed but a week and half They
! are all fat now.
a. L. Jeune proposes to plant $50
acres of potatoes on his Greenwood
county farm, 100 acres of which to
be early Ohios. He has bought two
carloads of early Ohio seed.
All of the saloons in Wabaunsee
county closed at noon on February
Is, according to the orders of mass
meeting previously held Those in
Alma were draped in mourning on
that day.
Slick Slater, the man that the moi
wanted at Topeka, and who was taken
to the Atchison Jail, Will ask for a
change of venue to Hutchinson. He
has served one four years sentence fol
pocket picking
| Secretary Swan. of the state board
of health, and his bondsmen are sued
by woman of Horton for being quar-
antined for two weeks in the same
room with a man. She asks S.. 900 tc
| quiet her nerves
James Stewart a co1Ored man vhe
was rece ntly killed by train near
| Sterling, was 81 years old and was the
father of ?. children, all but four O
them surviving him. He was twic.
married, the first wife bearing 3 ant
the second II children, the younges
being four years old.
Mrs. Nation $ brother. c. II. Moore
of Kansas City. provided a bond 70
her release from Jail in Topeka. Sh
t says she will stay in Topeka.
Mrs. Lena Elliott, of Reno county, o
rather her hens, won a prize. hig1
priced incubator, offered by the De
5 Moines, Iowa, Poultry Journal TIL
i prize was offered for the best eg
2 record made by six hens pullets il
: a period of one month Her half doze
e pullets produced 1T eggs in the mont
f of January. average of 2e3& egg
each in 81 days.
e Governor Stanley has published a re
: ward of $500 for the apprehension c
f members of the Ieavenworth moi
The reward stands good 90 days
: Law suits are becoming common bt
o tween incu1nbents and elected count
e superintendents, since Judge Thoml
5 son decided the Wabaunsee count