The Globe-republican., 1901-07-04
Kansas ITEMS or INTEREST.

Chanute is to vote upon the erection
of another school building
The state reunion of the Or. A. R. at
Hutchinson will be held August 13-17-
Electric lights have been turned on
in Cherokee, the plant being completed.
Rudolph Spee1eier was killed by
passenger train. close to his home west
of Marysviile-
The corrected returns of the asses
sors for the city of Topeka show a pop
citation of ss.o67
J. j. Houston, formerly register of
deeds of Anderson county, has been
appointed commissioner of public lands
of oklahoma.
In 1873 Labette. coanty offered a re
ward for the Blenders and has just
withdrawn that offer after % years
The Topeka druggist who was
fused supplies from wholesalers will
prosecute the wholesalers under the
Kansas antitrust law
Topeka jointists, having lost the
backing of Kansas City men who sup
ply them and generally own their out
fits, have quit business
sedgwicle county farmers will get
about $40 am acre for their alfalfa crop.
The second crop is mostly cut and
there will be two more to cut
G. w. Brown, the Augusta banker,
is the first capitalist of Kansas to go
to the Philippines to invest in lands
He will be gone about six months
Governor Stanley has plainly init
mated that Mrs. Nation need not apply
for pardon, but that other women
who acted with her will be considered
as a scparare class
Robert Maxwell, press room fore
man of the Topeka Capital office, has
taken out another patent on his auto
matte mailing machine, which is at
tached to cylinder press
Prof w r. Carter, of the colored in
dustrial institute of Topeka, has been
rendered the principa1ship of the Flor
ida normal and industrial college, a
state institution for negroes
A French farmer, of Cloud county,
went to the home of his son-in-1aw in
the night in intoxicated condition.
Being mistaken for a chicken thief he
was shot and badly wounded.
Samuel Shoup, of Coffey county. was
surprised by a. hundred neigh bors on
his Goth birthday. He has lived in
that county 10 years, is in good health
and is active many men of 60.
Rabbits along the highways and
hedges of Sumner county are not safe
when Miss Myrtle John is taking a
buggy ride with her rifle Three rab-
bits to one drive is about her average.
Miss Louise Vandivert, daughter of
Ex-Judge Vandivert of the Larned dis
trict court, carried off the honors of
her class at Rutgers college, Bruins
wick N. j. There We're 20 in the class.
The weavers in the Topeka wooden
mill struck for more pay. An offer
was made to them but it did not salts
fly them. The manager then put "A few
men from other departments at the
looms, as they knew something about
the work. New men will proba bl Y
take the looms.
There were not enough harvesters
in the wheat belt of Kansas despite
the state and railroad labor bureaus.
Town people, clerks and mechanics
and railroad section hands all dropped
their employment to work in the har-
vest.
T. A Parks, of Caldwell, reports that
over 200 wagons left there for the new
country and that the immigrants de-
clare. they will settle in the new coun-
try whether the government likes 1T or
not.
The contract for the new infirmary
at the Osawatomie insane asylum is let
to o. G. Petty, of Olathe, for $50, 500.
II. Mortimer, who marketed the first
wheat at Winfield had average yield
of 30 bushels to the acre of his 1oo
acres of wheat, which tested Ga pounds
to the bushe1
Eureka is going to try again Its
first prospect boring was lost by the
breaking of its casing There is plenty
of faith there the subject of III
innate success.
John T. Stewart, of Sumner county,
has about 145 quarter sections of land
which he rents. His grain rentals in
Simmer county where are 115 quarter
sections of his land will amount this
year to nearly 100. 600 bushels of wheat
Mr. Stewart bagan his business life a
$50 clerk in a Wichita abstract office
J. w GILL who was secretary of tn.
treasury in John Browns provisions