The Globe-republican., 1902-08-21

stem winch measures Ie0I.
Congressman Calderhead has all his
life taken only five hours sleep out of
the "A.
all cut out the premium stamp from
their business.
Assessors returns give Geary county
10, 625 people: over half of them living
in Junction City.
Miss Bertha NJ. Rowley, of Topeka,
has been appointed typewriter at the
FL Reno land office.
President Harris has appointed Craig
Harris, son of Senator Harris, as a
cadet at West Point
A shirt factory in Wichita has built
up trade of between thirty and forty
thousand dollars a year.
And the Santa Fe has also done
away with class rates between Wichita
and the Mississippi river
Kansas was well represented at Coun-
ell Bluffs, Iowa, at the reunion of the
army of the Philippines
Governor Stanley has issued the
usual formal proclamation for observ-
ance of Labor Day, September 1.
The eight acres of potatoes grown at
the industrial school for girls will turn
out about 800 bushels to the acre.
A portion of Captain John Seaton's
foundry at Atchison is burned. The
fire did not stop the work at the foun-
dry.
Prof. c. NJ. Brink, of Kalamazoo,
Mich, has been elected to the chair of
literature at the state agricultural col
1ege-
]. L. Jones. of near Lane, lost two
cows by lightning. They were lying
with their heads almost under wire
fence.
Ex-Spea1zer and ex-Judge Steve J.
Osborn has left Sa1ina to become law
partner of Henry C. Dooley, OF Coffey
Vile.
In the Marshall county Republican
convention Coroner Boyalzin, who iw'96
years old, made a speech He has held
Office for 80 years
During July there were issued in
Reno county three marriage licenses.
There were nine petitions for divorce
filed during that month.
Manhattan held a special election
upon the issue of $4,000 of bonds to
build city hall. The proposition
carried by a majority of 113. There
We're $50 votes cast.
President Ernest r. Nichols, of the
AdnSdS oCdIS COl1e9o, mas
been selected for the position of presi-
! dent of the Rhode Island College of
Agriculture and Mechanics Arts at
Kingston.
Miss AIDA Billings and her sister
| Pearl, were struck by lightning while
in bed at Cawker City. Pearl was
killed instantly and AIDA died within
a week. The rest of the family escaped
injury but the house and contents were
a total loss
The new Friends church near C1af1in
! was dedicated free of debt. The church,
supplied with the necessary furniture
and seats, cost about 81 400, and is a
neat structure. The Friends society
is quite a strong organization in that
| part of Barton county.
| Roland Wiley, the father of Mrs.
| Castle, who was killed by Jessie Nor
rison, is travelling man. and this fact
is lining up large percentage of the
| travelling men against the subscri ptions
| by members of that guild to raise a
| fund in Miss Morrison's interest
Expert workmen who came from In
| diana to the Independence glass factory
say they were induced to come to Kan
,sas by the assurance that there would
be no open saloons to come in contact
with, and that they would have first
class school and church privileges.
A Reno county alfalfa raiser says
that Ia acres devoted to that crop will
| bring in better returns than 16O acres
OF prairie hay land
A Wichita man proposes to sue one
of the tele phone companies of the city
| for running trees which he set out years
| ago and had cared for with love for
| them
| Colorado officials held a meeting to
| prepare to fight the ease of Kansas
| versus Colorado in the matter of the
| use of irrigation water. 1t was de-
| eided to contest the case to the last
j. H MeMahon- the originator Oh
| the Independent telephone system in
| Kansas, died at Alma of creeping par
alysis- He was AZ years old He
started the independent telephone
| business about seven years ago
Col J. c. Gordon. proprietor of the
! Copeland hotel, was painfully injured
| while on his way to Topeka from St.