The Globe-republican., 1902-10-16
KANSAS COMMENT.

~ AOA0 E'AChAC- koCFcALy
were present.
STRICKEN on TRAIN-Broder Broder-
son, chairman of the board of county
commissioners of Butler county took
the train at Douglass for Ell Dorado.
He was taken suddenly ill and was re-
moved from the train and died in
few minutes. Heart disease was the
cause.
WELLINGTON SALT.-The contractors
for drilling for. salt at Wellington
looked over the leased ground pros
Pecting to choose the place to begin
work at oEce TO build a bridge for their
derrick. Their machinery has been
shipped from Chicago and they are
preparing to go down 200 feet.
CoLoRED FEATERNAL INSURANCE.
Some of the co1ored people of the west
have organized a new fraternaI insur-
ance order for the members of their
race 1t is known as the Knights and
Ladies of Protection It's national
headquarters will be in Topeka Col
James Beck, of Lawrence, is president
Brown COUNTY CoRN.-Wil1iam Heff-
ner, of Brown county, has thirty acres
of corn that will average nearly fifteen
feet high. Most of the ears are eight
feet above ground. Seven sample ears
weigh eleven pounds. The corn, to-
taken as Kansas exhibit to the G. A
r. reunion, Washington
BLEW OUT THE GAs.-Henry Holtz-
man, a farm hand from P1easanton,
Kas., aged % years, blew out the gas
and was found in an unconscious con-
dition in his room in n Kansas Citv
hotel He was revived with difficulty
For two nights the young farmer had
blown out the gas, but an open win
dow had saved him. Monday night he
was assigned to n room where the ven
tilatiOn was not SO good, and came near
losing his life by asphyxiation-
KANSAS DIRT FOR FERTILIZER
Champaign county, Ills, famed for
more than half century as one of the
most productive in the Mississippi val
ley, is importing Kansas dirt for fer
tilizer and finding they can well nigh
double their yields of some crops bv so
doing Further, its use produces re-
suits they have been unable to obtain
by the use of other fertilizers. This is
officially acknowledged, and published
by their state experiment station at
Urbana.
CASTOR BEANS Nor GRAIN-State
Grain Inspector b. J. Northrup has re-
ceived a number of requests that he
take charge of the inspection of castor
beans for market. He referred the
matter tie Attorney General GODDARD
and the latter rendered an opinion to
the effect that he could not see how
they could in any way be c1assed as
grain; consequently Kansas raised cas-
tor beans will have to continue to go
to market without the states certificate
as to their quality.
SOME BLOOD SPIILED.-Two LAWYERS.
w. L. Cunningham and Norman Bar
l1er, came to blows in justice Dunn's
eourt room. at Arkansas City, before
court was In session, in an argument
over the divorce case of Attorney c. T.
Atkinson. The former referred to
Barker a jaclass and there was
some blood spilled before they were
separated. Barker is the same attor-
ney who engaged in fstic encounter
on the floor of a political convention
with Len Harmed six weeks ago
FIRsT WINDOW GLAss.-The first
window glass ever rolled west of the
Mississippi river has just been made in
Coffeyville- The failure of natural
gas in the Ohio and Indiana fields has
caused the Eastern manufacturers to
seek locations where cheap and plenti-
full fuel may be secured. The factory
is a twelve pot plant Seventy men
are employed and so boxes of window
glass will be produced daily All the
owners of the plant and worixmen are
from Elwood, Ind, and nearly all the
blowers are financially interested in it
BURGLARS IN PosToFFTcE.-The post
office and Cochran's store at Willard,
Shawnee county, are totally destroyed
by fire 1t is believed that burglars
looted the two places and set FIRE to
them to hide the the crime
Bic CORR IN KIowA--A. E. Hager-
man, had a load of corn in Kiowa.
The ears were all very large, of uni
form size and firmly filed Mr. Hager
man had 60 acres of this corn and hi
father has 60 acres more equally as
good He says the entire crop will
yield As or so bushels per acre.
NEW TELEPHONE CoNNECrIoN.-Neo-
desha is ready to talk to Chanute when
the switchboard for Villas is put in
The Altoona Cooperative company
owns the line into Chanute and will
pay the Chanute system 5 cents for
SWITCHING each raessaCe