The Globe-republican., 1902-03-27
KAssAs ITEMS OF 1NrEKEsE.

and stock raisers.
Dickinson county farmers report the
hard wheat in good condition while
soft wheat is injured.
During the month of February 4a1
cases of small pox were reported in
Kansas, but no deaths
The Western Union Telegraph COM
Pany is rebuilding its line along the
Union Pacific in Kansas
The state supreme court decides that
the search and seizure feature of the
HurreI1 liquor law is valid
Although properly classed as an ag-
ricultural state Kansas produced in
1901 over Sc, 600, 600 worth of coal.
Even politicians are, some of them.
unable to trace the lines of the con-
gressional districts of Kansas on a map
Major Calvin Hood has presented to
the College of Emporia his collection
of minerals, Indian and cowboy relics
superintendent Nelson's second cir
cular concerning consolidation of rural
schools is getting out before the peo-
pie
In four weeks time, ending March g.
1o1 farms in Osborne county have
changed hands, aggregating II, 900
acres
Coal prospectors three miles east of
Jewell City, say they have found a %
inch vein of camel coal at a depth of
16O feet.
Smith Center now has an artesian
well which gives an excellent supply of
water If is considered as important
there oil gusher.
The supreme court decides that for
elgn liquor houses cannot be prosecuted
as violatOrs of the prohibitory law for
soliciting orders in Kansas.
A carload of alfalfa seed has been
shipped from Emporia, it being the
most valuable load of anything ever
shipped from there. The load was ZOO
bushels of the seed worth 81, 200.
DR. Wilson, who was brought back
from Walxita, o. t, and tried on the
the charge of practicing illegally in
Ellis county, Kansas, was acquitted
The case is said to have cost Ellis coun-
ty $500
In case from Dodge City the su-
preme court decided that no city can
deny pupils of school age the privilege
of attending school for lack of vaccina-
ton when no contagious disease exists
in the city.
new POSTAL round house and re-
pair shop are soon to be built lat Ell
wood by the Rock Island. The E1wood
repair shops are intended for small re-
pairs; the big work will be taken to
Horton.
So much land in Mitchell county is
devoted to wheat and so much will be
planted in corn this year that the acre
age of oats will be very small. This is
believed to be true of many other coun-
ties in that section.
Jacob Horbaclx, janitor at the Santa |
Fe passenger depot in Arlxaneas CITY,
found pOcketbook containing a draft /!
for 1920 issued by the Carson, Iowa,
National bank and payable to Adam
King King cannot be located
Lightning rod sharps have been
gathering in contracts from Phillips
county farmers which turn up in the |
banks as notes The old, old story, |
but the fool farmers who do not read |
the papers are the only ones caught.
The assessors of Cloud county list |
wheat at 20 cents a bushel and corn at |
% cents. The first time in Kansas that |
corn has been worth more than wheat |
Roy Daniels, a Topeka saloon keeper,
has been held for murder by the cor |
oner's jury. He struck Frank Devlin's |
head with a beer mallet, and Dev1in |
died
Seneca has had $50, 900 fire which |
destroyed a brick block occupied as a |
furniture store The Rural Kansan |
plant and mattress factory We're |
burned out also.
Topeka drug stores are not selling |
half the liquor they did before the wide |
open disregard of law policy was adopt
ed for the saloons
Contract will be let on March 20 for
the main building for the branch nor
NAL school on the Fort Hays reserva- |
ton; the building to be completed by |
September L.
The establishment of an experiment
station by the agricultural college will |
probably cause the abandonment of |
of the state forestry farms at Fort
Dodge and Ogallah.
H. H. Palmer, a South Dakota ed
tor is visiting his mother at Irving,