The Globe-republican., 1901-11-28
Kansas ITEMS OF INTEREST.

John Wager a Wichita baker, caught
his arm in the machinery and it was
terribly ~mang1ed-
1t is stated tina there is more gin
shipped into Phillips county than OF
other liquors. There are many Hol-
flanders there
o. f. McElfresh, has resigned his
position as postmaster at Usage City.
and has been appointed inspector of
free rural delivery routes
Major C. w. Young, of Newton, sent
a well worded acknowledgement of the
assistance given there by the Wichita
fire department, at the recent fire in
his city.
Seven miles west of Winfield an old
miner claims to have discovered gold in
aging quantities. There is quartz in
a ledge and gold in the sand along a
creek
Warden Jewett says that the records
of the PeDitentiary will show that the
longer a judge serve the more merci-
full he becomes toward the ofender of
the law.
The Kansas State Grange Will hold
stH annual meeting in Topeka on De-
cenber 10. Governor Stanley and Su-
perintendent Nelson have agreed to
mike addresses.
Topeka has opium dens and in the
absence of a city ordinance the police
cannot disturb them Chief Stahl has
prepared an rdinanc which he sub
mfts to the city council
A Wisconsin man offers to rid Kan
sas of prairie dogs for 500. 900, payable
xvhen a majority of a committee of 25
prominent citizens of the state says he
has performed his contract.
h school population of Kansas is
$685. 1854, which is greater than the com
bined school population of North Da-
kota, Montana, Rhode Island, New
Hampshire, Vermont and Connecticut
Forty Dickinson county farmers have
had telephone connection with all the
towns in the county circuit, and be-
yond, for some time, and there is no
doubt that the number is doubled by
this time
Gen. VIM. Crozier has been appointed
chief of the ordnance bureau with rank
of ~brigadier general General Crozier
grew up in L-eavenworth, Kas- He is
the son of Robert Crozier, ex-United
States senator.
Two hundred of the convicts in the
Kansas penitentiary take daily papers
and many weeklies are received there.
The news of the escape of the &c from
the federal prison caused much interest
in the state prison
One advantage of telephone connec-
ton among the farmers is the opPor-
tunity given to spread the news of a
new graft to the neighbors. Lightning
rod, grocery order and indre swindles
can be headed off in that way.
A soldier, supposed to be from Fort
Riley, killed two men in the street at
Junction City, with no p-rovocation.
He met E. L. Cooper in the middle of
the street and put Il bullet into his
right temple. City Marshal James
White was near by ana started toward
the scene but the soldier cut an artery
in his neck with a bullet before he
came near the soldier White died i'm
mediately. The soldier emptied his re-
volver but hit no one else; while
doing this he yelled and repeated 81
want to die He disappeared and
posses were sent out to find him.
Wellington decided by a majority of
500, in a comparatively light vote, to
issue SIS. 900 in bonds for a city electric
light plant. 1t is proposed to run the
plant in connection with the water
works system recently purchased by
the city.
First Lieutenant Fred R. Fitzpatrick
has been elected captain of Company NJ.
Kansas National Guard, to succeed
Captain c. T. Milton. retired. Fitz-
patrick is about % years of age, and is
probably the youngest militia captain
in the state
T. a. McA1ister, a farmer of Osborne
county. has kept tab on his wheat crops
for five years. During that time he
has raised 1906 bushels of wheat on
100 acres of land. or an average of &c
bushels an acre for each wear.
a local paper tells of an assault by a
woman in a church at Harper, at the
close OF the service. a young lady
laughed and the old lady thought she
was the party laughed at; 50 she slapped
the yonng lady and stuck a hat pin
into her a couples OF times The wounds
came near being serious
A head aud collision occurred al
Pavnee south of Fort Scott. ON the
Frisco and seriously injured two ladies
Mrs u s. Pnrton being one of them