The Globe-republican., 1901-04-18
Kansas ITEMS OF INTEREST.


been blown away.
Friends University is to have an
electric light plant of its own.
Ed c. Ellet. of FL Dorado. is chosen
chairman of the new penitentiary
board
Short change rogues are sometimes
caught. One of them is in Jail at Os-
wego on a so days sentence.
The retiring chief of police of Wichi-
ia reports that during the past year
his force made 2.211 arrests
A contract has been let for theatre
and dance hall in Coffeyvil1e. The
building will seat 500 people.
a reunion of the Twentieth Kansas
is arranged for, to be held in Forest
Park, Ottawa, on September 3-5.
1t is figured out that the refusal of
people in Crawford county to be vac
cinated has cost the tax payers SIS, 600.
The Santa Fe railroad Y NJ. C. A.
building in Topeka is considera bly,
damaged by fire. The loss is estimated
at So, 500.
Emporia is to have electric rail-
way of its own and will also furnish
electric power for running all kinds of
machinery
court is setting a good exampls to
tOyoung people by studying the Span
ish language
The acts passed by the last 1egisla-
ture viii be out in book from about
May Is. They will make a II rger book
than ever before.
The ministers of the Northwest Kan
sas conference have pledged > per cent
of their salaries to pay off the debt
Wesleyan university at Sa1ina-
SPearville, with census population
of 157, with less than G, 900 in the coun-
ty, during the month OF February
shipped s9o5-72 worth of eggs.
c. @. Chandler, of Wichita, owns the
controlling interest in ten of the Kan
banks; the last one purchased by
him is the Haz1eton State bank.
The Wellington city council has
placed occupation tax of 81 200 a
year, payable semi annually, by drug
gists who hold permits to sell liquor.
Other druggists pay So n year.
The supreme court sustains the claim
of Walter f. Anderson of So 900 for in
iuries received by a heavy safe door
falling upon him in Salina- The city
of Sa1ina must pay the judgment.
The prison binding twine plant has
capacity of the plant is o5O. 900 pounds
a month. Twine will be sold direct to
farmers at cents a pound less than
last year.
r. w. Docl1stader, of Cawl1er City,
and Miss Gertrude Rogers, of Be1oit,
married There is nothing
marl<able in this statement until an
other fact is added. The groom's we'd
ing gift to the bride was $50. 900.
Mrs. Rose May Bedford, of Cherry
vale, soon after her marriage, was sep
arated from her husband by the law
which placed him in the peniten tiary
for burglary. She secured his release
on parole and only a few days after
his returning home he got drunk and
struck her. She informed the govern
or that her husband had broken his
parole and he was taken back to Lam
sing. while his wife commenced pro-
ceedings for divorce.
r. H and Al Brown, of Manhattan,
designed and built gasoline launch
40 feet in length and feet wide. 1t
will carry about 20 persons and will
ply between Manhattan and Dipping
Springs, about miles up the Blue
river
The mill recently burned at Sedg
wick is to be replaced by a better one
The insurance was adjusted in fifteen
minutes after the insurance men ar
rived Then a stock company COM
menced to gather funds for up-to-
date mill.
Condemnation of right of way across
the farm of L. NJ. Todd, of Franklin
county, for the Santa Fe double track,
was resisted by Mr.. Todd with gun.
He was not satisfied with the sum
awarded him by the appraisers
The problem of securing enough
harvest hands this season is already
being discussed, commencing usual
with demands for cut rates by the
railroads Has anybody stopped his
think works long enough to consider
how much every interest leans on the
railroads.
The news of Funston-s feat reached
his mother on her 6sth birthday.
w. E. Blackburn an old and always
''up and dOin-' citizen of Anthony, has
made arrangements 20 procure from