The Globe-republican., 1902-10-16
Kansas Events
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crowd is expected to attend and the
Santa Fe is making arrangements to
equip its regular trains with extra
coaches for the meeting If it is
thought the crowd will justify it, a
special train will be run. Speakers
from over the state have announced
their intention of attending the meet
ing and it is anticipated that the gath
ering will be a large one.
The STATE REFoRMAToRY.-Sup
tendent J. S Simmons of the state re-
formatory has submitted his biennial
report to the board of managers. Tt
shows the property of the institution
to be worth 5000, 4e1, the land being
valued at $3.50. 900 and all the rest
represented by buildings, furniture
fixtures, livestock, feed, supplies and
the like During the last biennial
period cell house having 600 cells has
been built, almost exclusively by in
mate labor.
CHURCH WAS DEcoRATED.-A service
held in the Lutheran cl1nrch at Water
vile, marks the iberalized methods
which have been adopted in modern
times The service was in the nature
of a thanks giving for the bounteons
crops of the present year. The iifce
was decorated throughout with fruits
of the farm and the orchard. Tall
stalks of corn We'd with corpulent
sheaves of wheat and other grains in
suggesting the abundance of the season
KANSAS CONNECTS. As UsUAI--Kan-
sas was bound to get mixed up in the
great Stratton will case at Cripple
Creek The judge, J. A. Orr, who ig-
nOred the terms of the will and APP
pointed a set of administrators of his
own choosing, was raised in Kansas
and formerly practiced law at indie
pendence. One of the administrators
appointed by Judge Orr was Mr.
Grimes, his brother-in-1aw, who usei
to live IN Howard county
BRAKEMAN HESS KnLED.-Brake-
man Hess, of the Missouri, Kansas &
Texas railroad, was killed six miles
south of Junction City. He was riding
in the engine and was standing in the
gangway when his hat blew off as the
engine ran onto a bridge. In his eff
fort to save his hat his head was struck
against the bridge and his body fell
nto the river below. He was about p
years old.
SECOND APPLE CRoP.-Rev. n. E.
Harmon gave reporter for the Wich-
tia Eagle half dozen second crop
apples that are curiosity. They are
IN every respect the same any other
Maiden Blush apples, but smaller
Mr. Harmon planted the apple trees
himself and has watched them grow
into producers The second crop grew
only upon one limb.
WAS ON THE OREGoN-H c. Van
Busl<irlz, who has been appointed
round house foreman for the Santa Fe
at Caldwell. was second engineer on
board the battleship Oregon, at the
time she made her memorable voyage
around the Horn Tt suggests again
that the Kansas man is ubiquitous as
we'll possessed of a wide range of
ability.
VETERAN DROPS DEA D-Robert
Hardy, of Emporia, an old soldier,
dropped dead in front of the Citizens
bank Mr. Hardy had heart disease
He was in the Fourth West Virginia
infantry, Company B. during the civil
war and had lived in Lyon county
about thirty-two years.
MIAMI COUNTY PEARs.-George Wat
son last week took a pair of pears each
eleven inches in circumference, to the
La Cygne Journal Office. Up to that
time they held the banner. A few days
later, however, Robert Bass. of Pleas-
anton, took a pear to the Herald Office
which measured fourteen inches around
and he still holds the record.
ADVERTISING FLorsAM.-A Stockton
man wants information of n large
white tank which the high water car
fied off. He might do well to adver-
tise in the New Orleans papers
SCHOOL BOND CLERk--A- ". Lindell,
bond clerk in the state superintendent
office, has been chosen assistant cashier
of new bank in North Topeka and
has taken the position It is not likely
that Superintendent Nelson will name
a clerk to succeed Lindel1 as the work
for the year is almost up in the Office
STRANDED BIZ THE EBB--A Beloit
party doing the Smoky and Solomon
rivers in q steamer would have reached
their journeys end sooner if falling
waters had not left them stranded on
the dam at Minneapolis
ANTI-FUsIoN CASE CoNTINUED-Ow-
ing to the absence of Judge Doster,
the hearing in the suit brought by w
H. Craddock, the Democratic nominee
for governor, in the Kansas supreme
court to test the anti-fusion law. was