The Globe-republican., 1901-07-18
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.


about So, 600
The commissioners of Atchison coun-
~ want a t'tax ferret. and are asking
FOR bids from experts
In oase from Russell county the
supreme court decides that barber is
q professional man
The state forestry farm at oganah
has been run over by a ire which
nearly wiped It all UP.
One squadron Of the 18th cavalry is
TO leave Fort Leavenworth to go to the
department of Colorado
\ drug store, barber shop and a har-
ness shop at Richmond burned, with
total Ioes of about S., 600
The Parsons Catholics claim their
new pi Pr organ is the largest between
Kansas City ard Galveston
I3-year-old boy of Fort Scott died
of locltjaw produced by a wound on
his hand while firing toy pistol.
A Touring mill and an ice house at
Blue Mond left terra firma for the
clouds in 6he same column of smoke.
Samuel A Deel, Of Baldwin, has
been appoint ted d magnetic observer in
the coast survey office in Washington
a tourist sleeper filed with Epvvorth
Leaguers left Ottawa to attend the
national convention at San Francisco.
Z l.. McKecver, of Topeka, is slated
for assistant u =. district attorney,
when District Attorney e Z. Tracey,
of Wanego, is appointed
Two threshing outfits were destroyed
by Ere in Lincoln county. fires catch
ing from sparks from the engines An
other in Pawree county; both fires
reported on the same day
Many county fairs in Kansas, here
tofore announced, are being abandoned
on account OF the prevailing dry and
hot weather Like action is probable
in the case of she state fair at Topeka
The walls of the state library and
of the office of State superintendent
Nelson, We're damaged ST, 900 by the
carelessness of some one in leaving
water faucet running all night in
room the floor above
About all the travelling men in
Southern Kansas towns, wnen the
opening proclamation issued,
found shat FL Reno would be appro-
priately entered on their route sched-
nle for the next round
Whom Jessie Morrison was starting
TO go to the penitentiary several hun
dred people congregated at the rail
women A large number crowded
into the train TO stare at the prisoner.
6. J. Peterson claim agent of the
Union Pacific, says that :, 600 acres of
wheat has been burned along the road
in Kansas The road runs through
100 miles of solid wheat fields, and
Patterson thinks the railroads loss is
comparatively small
ir$x aero (.anaT.l
Is. Ha1en commanded some troops at
Wichita While SO employed he played
poker and won out. In sguaring the
deal the loser, named Bancroft, decided
Hazcn some city lots, rated at $4Oo
Hazen never paid any taxes, and now
a suit is started against Admiral George
Dewey and his wife, Mildred Dewey,
(vvho was General Hazen's widow be-
fore her name was made Dewey to
secure from them a quit claim of the
lots to J. o. Davidson, the holder of
the tax titles
Sam Radges, Topeka city directory.
compiler and publisher from vvay-baclx.
says that So per cent of the people of
that city live in their own homes.
There are 40 DEGREES of divorce in
Shawnee county in which the costs OF
the case have not been paid BY Judge
Hazen's order no record OF Judgment is
made in the journal until costs are
paid So there are forty couples who
probably think they are divorced while
they still married Some of these
are liable to prosecution for bigamy,
having married again
The state board of charities esti-
mates that there viii be S35, 900 great
expense in providing food for the
inmates of State institutions this year
than usual on account of the failure OF
their vegetable gardens from drouth-
Corn in large sections of Kansas
commenced shriveing up July 6
Up TO that date the crop had generally
xvithstood the heat The oat crop is :
general failure and grass to make hay
is vez@ scarce It is not SO serious If
Western Kansas and considerable stocl
has been shipped there
Carloads of young and middle aget
men. with grips, blankets aud sho
guns. pass through Kansas from far
Their east, bound for the newly opened