The Globe-republican., 1901-11-21
KAssAs ITEMS OF INTEREST.

cubic feet of gas every 24 hours
The Southern Kansas and Oklahoma
Implement Dealers, association is to
meet at Wichita on December and 5.
The city marshal of Havensville has
been arrested for striking boys who re-
fused to obey his order to go home
Halloween.
A. c. Emmons, a mineralogy expert,
has been detailed by the interior de-
partn1ent to inspect the Trego- Ellis
gold fields.
For the first time in eleven years
there is change of one county com
missioner of Smith county in party
membership.
James Simpson, the third white man
to settle in Dopiphan county, died
his presumption claim recently at the
age of % years.
It is believed in official circles that
fully Is per cent of the ballots cast at
the late election were rejected on acs
count of errors.
Coffeyvi11e has a fire alarm which is
a piece of pipe with whistle at the
top, while the other end is connected
with gas well.
Fredonia has a gas well; calls it one
of the very best in that gas belt The
Xzain line pipe laid.
1t is quite general belief at Win
field that William Johnson, who is held
for the murder of Detective Geo. Mont
gonnery, is not guilty.
II was Twentieth Kansas man who
captured Thompson, the ha1f-breed
leader of the escaped convicts- Dudley
Keefer, of Council Grove, was the man.
4 street fakir worked Beloit crowd
for S25, but was forced to return the
money together with more cash in the
way of court costs. A good example
for other towns.
Farmers about Downs are having
telephone connection with the town
constructed. This also gives them
connection with the entire system in
that part of the state.
Two Wellington men who went to
Lamar, Colorado, have secured Offices.
l.. F. Blodgett is elected county judge
and Frank Rosecrans gets the office of
county assessor out there
e. p. Hanna, the attorney who made
the opening argument in the Sch1ey
Sampson investigation, is Kansas boy
from Sa1ina. He has been connected
with the navy department a good long
time.
Anon Youngblood, an aged negro, of
Wichita, was killed by his Jersey bull
when he went to move his picket pin in
a patch of wheat The bull had always
been kind and gentle before this at
tack.
Luther Diclxerson preempted naked
prairie land in Atchison county in 1854.
He lately cut $50 cords of wood off three
acres of it. He now has 1 900 cords of
wood on 100 acres which was formerly
prairie.
A. b. Wilkins, merchant of Medi-
cine Lodge, received serious injury
from the falling upon him of a box
when he was stacking up boxes in his
store. He was taken to one of the hos
pitfalls in Wichita.
DIR. w. III. Hudson, of Atchison, has
given good start to free school for
negro men and women. The school
already has 20 pupils, but it is such a
success that a permanent institution
Will be established.
Colonel T. W. Harrison is to be given
a big reception at Topeka on November
22. He is the highest Mason in Kan
sas. Invitations are sent out to Scot
fish Rite Masons all over the state.
Judge Thompson, of the district court
of Usage county. instructed jury that
any express agent who delivers whisky
TO any person W11Onn 1t may De {.
through his office, and receives pay for
1T or any portion of it. is guilty of sell
ing whisky This case viii probably
be made test case, in the supreme
court.
Judge Charles Lobdell and j. S Sim
mons, superintendent of the Hutchinson
reformatory, are the principal stock
holders of a new bank at Jetmore.
The county commissioners of Mitch
ell county are up against suit to hold
them personally responsible for the
costs in the suit against join list which
they had reEnitted-
A colony of nearly so old soldiers are
taking claims in Greer county. They
are members ef the colony formed a.
Kansas City to take claims in the new
counties and failed to draw them
The federal prison at LeavenwortI
contains $40 prisoners ninety-three O
these are military prisoners Thers