The Globe-republican., 1901-07-25
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

local team and team from Nevada,
Mo, ended with a general fight
VIM Archer, of Ellinwood, was one
of the many losers by fire in the wheat
fields. He lost a threshing outfit.
One recent mail brought to the col
1ector of internal revenue at Lcaven-
worth POS applications for liquor deal
ers' stamps
Kansas City Grain merchants agree
in the statement that the Kansas
wheat crop never was so large nor the
grain SO good
The Chautauqua assemblies in Kan
sas have not been successful as
usual this summer; probably on ac-
count of the heat
The district court of Lyon county
has suit brought by the Santa Fe to
restrain the Orient road from crossing
its tracks in its yards
Misses Blanche Casey and Mary Bel
lew, of Wichita, left home in the morn
ing, registered at FL Reno and reached
home the same night
The Cudahy packing house employed
n large number Of men of the burned
Dold plant at Wichita, including sew
era1 of their travelling men.
Claude Hamilton, of Topeka, sue
ceeds Mr., Tracey ia Attorney General
Godard's office when Tracey takes his
place as u S. district attorney
1t may prove that the rush of stock
to market has come from panic rather
than from existing conditions. People
are scared at the conditions they ex-
pect.
Topeka did not get any of that big
rain most of the state blessed
with the other night. The rain came
within 40 miles east and southwest.
Topeka had dry thunderstorm only.
a second edition of Secretary Co
burns biennial report is ready for dis
tribution. This edition is of :, 500 vol
umes; the first edition was of Is, 900,
and it was exhausted within 80 days.
Copies of the new state school laws
have been sent from the office of the
state superintendent to each of the
80, 600 school officers in the state. There
was about nine tons of these books
sent out.
A prairie fire north of Larned de-
stroyed 40, 600 bushels of wheat in the
stack. Frank Junod, while fighting
fire, inhaled flames and was reported
dying. Several buildings were burned
and many tons of prairie hay.
The State Board of Charities and
Corrections will go to Parsons next
week to make arrangements for secur-
ing site for the new insane asylum
which will be built at that place The
site selected by the people at Parsons
is held at S2s, 900, but if this is taken
by the board the price will have to be
considerably reduced. The last 1egis-
1ature appropriated 500, 900 to pay for
the purchase of a site and the con-
struction of necessary buildings. The
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amount on buildings and ask the next
legislature to make further appropria-
ton to provide for the furnishings.
The asylum will be the cottage plan.
No large buildings will be erected but
the different W ards will be housed in
separate buildings of comparatively
small size.
Captain Hawkins served in Cuba
with the 23rd Kansas colored regiment
and then went to the Philippines. He
remains there and has bought two
farms and stocked them with 1000
sheep. He also has tobacco planta-
ton.
.u--zas
Captain VIM. H. Floyd, of Topeka,
who was killed in wreck in Missouri:
was a messenger of the Wells-Fargo
express company He entered the
service of the company at the close of
had been with the company ever since.
The interior department. nas ordered
the boarding school at Great Nemaha
reservation in Kansas to be abandoned
as the Indians have outgrown the con-
ditions under which the school was
necessary.
Henry Hardin, Bell telephone line
man, was climbing a pole at Colony
carrying wires when lightning struck
and he was instantly killed
The rain at Winfield was a deluge-
At 10 p m. the telephone exchange
could not send out messenger it
would be dangerous for him to go out
county convention has been called
in Montgomery county to choose q
candidate for sheriff to hold Office dur
ing the year preceding the biennial
election. The governor Will be asked
to appoint the the convention
selects