The Globe-republican., 1901-04-11
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.


new court house at Beloit.
The snow which fell on April 1 Gov
cred Kansas and considerable territory
outside 1t is welcomed by farmers
1t is funny, yet packing house meat
is advertised and sold way out where
cattle come from in western Kansas.
Assistant Attorney General West has
given it as his opinion that the bien-
NAL election law is valid at all points.
Effort and expense will not be want
ing to give Harvey county a fair in
September that will be a county beater.
new Baptist church has been dedi-
Gated at Abbyvi1le, Reno county. The
building is SO by 40 feet and cost about
81, 500.
The new railroad board will occupy
the old supreme court rooms in the
basement of the east wing of the state
house
The Missouri Pacific sent special
from Wichita to Lindsborg April 3,
to take people to the great Messiah
concert there
The county court house at Abilene is
to be remodeled and provided with
more vaults and n4-Ce more convenient
in other ways
Harold Chase, editor of the Topeka
Capital. must stand trial for criminal
libel for saying things about Police
Judge McGaw.
The acts passed by the last 1egisla-
ture will be out in book from about
May Is. They viii make a larger book
than ever before.
Joseph O'Byrne of Topeka, a Mis-
souri, Pacific brakeman, was burned to
death in wreck of his train between
Leroy and Aliceville.
General Funston's commission as
brigadier general dates for April L; that
of Smith, on March 80, making the lat
ter Outranx the former.
The snow caught Atwood and towns
west of there, with not enough provi-
sions or fuel. People burned loose rail
road ties, fence posts and lumber.
Capt. George Cooper of Osawatomie
claims to have enlisted 500 men to
make the run to the Kiowa lands.
Cooper is original boomer, associ.
ated with Dave Payne.
AS lawyers disagree upon the valid
fly of the new biennial election law, n
test case is to be made in Shawnee
county and pressed to an early decision
from the supreme court.
Democrats carried Kansas City, Kan
First reports give Topeka democrat
publicans. j. w. Orr, democrat, is
elected mayor of Atchison. The entire
democratic ticket was elected in Leav-
enworth. There was but one issue in
Wichita and the vets won, electing
Mclean for mayor by 1900. He was
republican nominee. Concordia repub-
1icans had dry ticket and were beaten.
Harper went wet by large ma ority.
Republicans of Great Bend ran a wet
lfal- nd oil tad \
ticket which was also republican.
Larned elected n non-partisan dry
ticket Law and order ticket won at
Eureka, and also at Manhattan In
Fort Scott the republican ticket was
dry and it won. Salina elected a dry
ticket and so did Arkansas City, also
Usage City, while Chanute went wet.
Hutchinson elacted a wet mayor. Hol-
ton beat the wet ticket. independence
went wet.
George Evans, formerly a prosperous
contractor at Topeka, is now in the
Soldiers home and in very poor health.
He has had several contracts in the
course of the building of the state
house
The mayor of Hutchinson forgot to
issue proclamation for the city cleo
ton and now the courts may be asked
80 decide whether there has been a
legal election held. There was an in
creased number of votes polled, which
shows the lack of necessity for the
law requiring a proclamation.
The Rock Islands Colorado line is
ballasted far west Phil1ipsburg,
and it is the intention of the company
to complete the ballasting far
Goodland this year Crushed rock is
used.
Atwood. some of which are 90 feet
deep, Were filled with wet snow and
frozen to solid ice. The railroad COM
pany had every man and snowplow
that could be secured, and it took
week to move trains The snow on
the Prairies was two feet deep
Jerry Black, the Santa Fe's boss tick
ct man. kept pistol to shoot burglars
and the burglars got it, not takiag any