The Globe-republican., 1901-04-04
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Holton registered ,os3 voters. about
one-third of them women.
The registration at Atchison beat |
the record, being ;. 2s2-
Registration books closed at Leaven-
worth with 9,275 names.
Nathan Jones, city attorney of Sa- |
betha, was found dead in bed
Kingman Methodists have paid off |
the last cent of church Indebtedness.
Salinas registration counted out |
2,331, of which number $40 We're wc-
men.
Ten thousand pounds of fresh meat
goes weekly to Fort Riley from Kansas
City.
More Russians are expected in Ellis
county to arrive in time for the wheat
harvest.
Senator Burton is asking for several
consulships to be assigned to his APP
pointing.
The state supplies 800 tents for the
use of the G. A. r. in their reunions
this year.
The Registrations in SaIina was 1881,
a slight increase although registration
of women fell off 176.
The name of Emporia was taken
from that of a Greek colony just south
of Carthage in Africa
The women of Kingman whispered
around and gathered S35 to buy cow
for the mother of triplets.
DIR. w. T. Armstrong, who recently
died at Louisville, KY, left So, 900 to his
two grand children in Salina-
Major L. j, Beam, who early
settler in Shawnee county, and served
in the Fifteenth Kansas, is dead
There were thirty names list
IF fsan didafRS for
the Office of railroad commissioner.
The state live stock sanitary board
has appointed John H. johnson, of
Ho1ton, inspector at Fort Worth, Texas
a new theory of the creation is the
modest motif of new book just pub
lished by George Campbell, of Oswego.
The $40, 900 library building is com
menced at the College of EmpOria.
Andrew Carnegie furnished the funds
A new law authorizes county COM
missioners to deposit county funds in
any bank in the state in case banks of
the county refuse to pay interest.
There are enough cases filed on the
supreme court, to keep its seven Judges
busy for two years, without touching
current business during that time.
The Fort Hays reservation will be
utilized for experiments by the Kansas
agricultural college; especially in find
ing ways to make grains and forage
plants resist drouths, and to find new
grains and forage thai will do well on
the plains
1t is all right for Kansas to get a bit
crazy over General Funston's successes,
but it is silly to mix up politics in it by
commencing again to talk about giving
him a high up office outside the army.
The general would run away from that
he did before.
The Masonic order of Bellville, Re
public county, and the State Historical
society will unite in Fourth of July
celebration at the site of the Pawnet
village, when the corner stone of the
Zebulon Pike monument will be placed
on the spot where Pike hauled dowI
the Spanish flag and swung the Stars
and Stripes.
There are now los children in tn
Orphans home at Atchison- AS sool
as one reaches the age of 10 a home i
found.
A 13-year-old boy of Florence wa
killed with rifle not supposed to b
loaded. The boys were playing .pris
oner' and when the prisoner tried t.
escape he was shot
Lieut. Mitchell who was with Ger
eral Funston in the capture of Aguir
aldo, was formerly a lieutenant in tn
Twentieth Kansas He is Genera
Funston-s nephew
Department Commander w. w. Ma
tin, of the g. y. r. of Kansas, hs
about completed arrangements for til
encampment at Junction City in Apri
Oil has been struck nine miles sout
of Cawl<er City. @. L. Hudkins, WI
owns the 900 acre ranch where tt
oil is, is trying to lease % adjacent Sc
tions from Topeka parties.
Ernest Derby writes from the Phi1i
pines to his relatives at Peabody e.
planning why he did not start hon
with his regiment He had accepted
place the civil service at SIS mont
Three G. A. r. reunions are a
nounced; at Washington, August 2s-3
Phillipsburg the same days: Ell d
RADIO. second week in September.