The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1901-09-05
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

gathering in Lawrence
Senfnnonthly pay days at the fac
tories and srne1ters at lola call for 49,
900 each time.
oChecopee, Cherokee county. has six
joints and when The sheriff called on
them they put up $13s- s. each
Each Institution of learning in Kan
sas has a baseball team stronger than
ever this year according to the local
papers,
If there are any Kansans who feel
badly over having had a dry spell they
ought to get pointers from Texas. and
feel better -cOntented-
Although Kansas has $1,000 more
men than women, three of that large
majority were covvhided within one
week by members Of tbs minority
Miss Beatrice Baker a graduate of
Paramount college, Wichita, this year,
has been elected to a professorship IN
Proctor academy at Provo. City Utah
Fort Scott claims to have the largest
cider mill in the state. It is worked by
steam and turns out 5000 gallons a
day. Bourbon counHy's apple crop is
immense.
Instead of obeying the .---(1s-r- to take
down fences which enclose government
land in Western Kansas, five ra11chmen
are building SO miles of fence in
Geeeley county
The Santa Fe let the contract for
building their new pattern house in
Topeka, for IS, 600 1t is to be 40 by rs
feet three stories high, of brick, and
well protected against fire
Hereafter in Kansas under the new
election law, when ballot is not
l-eAf1- l1xx 1.n
thrown out, whether it shows the in
tentiOn of the voter not
BENZ WalIacl1, of bingham. sixteen
years ago gave his eight children each
81, 900 in money, and since has given
them various sums each year. Last
week he gave each one $780,
Allen N. Cameron, of Kansas, has
been appointed marshal of the United
States consular court at Hankau, China.
He went from Lawrence as a mission
airy to China several years ago.
Mat Bennane a bachelor of Garden
City, who lived alone, was found dead
There We're evidences murder On
the last day he was down town it was
known that he had $500 which has not
been found.
Here's a record worth displaying to
the gaze of the world. Atchison ooun-
ty, with a large population and city
OF l ), 600 people, has but criminal
case for the September term of the dis
trict court
The bridal dress worn by Miss Clara
s Glenn, of Wichita, was made entirely
of a cloth manufactured in the Philip
pines from banana fiber She went to
Manila with her sister, the wife of
Major w. II. Bishop, of Salina.
In Ellsworth county, where there are
several consolidated school districts the
board hires man to gather the pupils
who live two miles or more from the
school, and the people are pleased as it
gives them the benefit of graded schools
Thirty neighbors, after the death of
G. w Graham, of Cowley county, cut
the hay the Graham farm and
stacked it, put the corn in the shock
threshed the oats; all without charge
and because the crops needed attention
with no one to give it
The school population of Topeka in
creased % in the past year. According
to the school census just completed the
total school population is II, $50.
Prairie chickens are more plentiful
than usual in Western Kansas and par
ties from eastern cities are quite fire.
quent in counties along the Union Pa
cific
The steel strike in the east is respon-
sible for delays in the completion of
Obout 500, 900 worth of improvements in
additions to the Rock Island shops at
Horton.
The first Sunday of the camp meeting q
at Riverside park, Wichita. the street
car company counted their passenge
after O'Clock and there were :, 1s5.
Fourteen of the 154 school district
clerks of the state failed to re
port the tax levy TO the county clerks
before Aug 25, the limit, and are liable
to fine.
Rains continue plentiful in Decatur
county and some corn will make thirty
bushels to the acre Andrew Simpson
has $50 acres that he thinks will bring
him 4, 900 bushels.
Two boys rented 81 acres of land near
De Soto and planted it to potatoes
Their sales reach about 81 ESQ. 1t is
estimated tnat if thew had held for a