The Globe-republican., 1901-05-02
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

failed to convict.
1t is now stated that the Orient road
will miss Ell Dorado account of
grades on that route.
The last list of regular army lieuten-
ants has nine Kansas names; all of
them popular at home
A telephone war between the two
telephone companies in Emporia has
reached the stage of wire cutting
Secretary Coburn is the author of
book on alfalfa which is being pub
Iished by the Orange Judd company
Topeka has had PA fires in the past
year; of which 40 were incendiary, ac-
cording to the opinion of the FIRE chief
Judge Hazen has a hard knot to un-
rave1 and has taken time to make up
his decision the mayoralty contest
N Topeka
Agents for the purchase of cavalry
horses for the British army visited
Wichita making selections They want
200 of them
Senator Burton will not interfere
in the appointment of postmasters in
sional district.
The general store at Ransomvil1e,
Franklin county. was looted of much
night. No clue.
Mrs. Wiley Trother. aged 90. of
Hutchinson, made attempts to take
her own life; first with aconite and
second with razor
Prof. Chrisman, of the Emporia Nor
NAL failed in reelection to his position
for the reason that in his lectures he
argues that man never loves.
J. NJ. Whitaker, the Labette county
cattleman came back from Mexico to
attend his daughters wedding and Will
remain at his home at Montana.
Topeka is to pave thirty-one blocks
with vitrified brick this year. That
number has already been contracted
for. Last year So blocks were paved
The Union Pacific railroad company
has filed application to increase its
capital stock from S196, 600, 600 one mil
lion dollars more. The fling fee is the
largest ever received by the state of
Kansas, being SO, 200.
II. a. Parker, first vice president
and general manager, and w. E. Dau-
chy. general engineer of the Rock ISL
and are on a trip of inspection be
tween Chicago and Fort Worth. They
worked through Kansas, entering the
state on the 22nd of April
Ex-Con gresham Melvin A Baldwin.
who killed himself in Seattle, came to
Lawrence after the civil and was
assistant superintendent of the Leav-
enworth, Lawrence & Galveston r. R.
and when j. S. Ka1loch resigned the
place of superintendent Baldwin sue
ceeced him, and held the place until
the Santa Fe absorbed the road.
VIM. Edwards, of Jewell county.
started for Hot Springs to recruit his
health. On his way he switched into
the Kansas City stocl<yards and stunab-
led on to good bargains, as he believed
At any rate he bought fine jack; also
a carload of horses which caught his
attention. While the horses We're be-
ing loaded he saw thirteen Belgian
hares and took the lot BY the time
he reached home he was well as he
well as he ever was in his life
The women members of the churches
of Topeka for colored people are start
ing a movement for a colored orphans
home.
Joseph CLANCY, near Burns, Marion
county, was run over and killed while
attempting to stop n runaway team
with two women in the buggy His
back was broken.
The State Sunday School association
is to meet in Topeka May 1416-
The program for the meeting will be
association includes all denominations.
The tax commissioner of the Frisco
line starts on Sunday after church
with all the state. officers, taking them
to Arkansas a fishing excursion.
The agatite works near Mulvane
have suspended operations because the
raw material near the surface is ex-
hausted, that is near enough to be
worked profitably-
waverley suffered from a fire on
April %, which destroyed a millinery
store. two restaurants, a feed store and
the office of the Waver1ey Gazette Loss
mostly covered by insurance
Salaries of certain of the city officers
in Wichita have been fixed as follows
Mayor, $1,000; city attorney. 81. 200:
chief of police, $1,000; FIRE marshal,
81 200: police judge. Sz2o: special de-
tectives. $40; patrolmen, S72o-
Mrs Carrie Nation had leased her
furnished house in Medicine Lodge to