The Globe-republican., 1902-03-06

3eaDOdy TO dr11l TOT coal
At Wakefield the construction of a
SO, 900 flour mill is commenced.
The city of Topeka pays for sss,o5o
insurance on its public buildings
The Rock Island is going to build a
new $50. 900 round house at Herington-
Anthony is to have a cheese factory
in connection with its slximming sta
ton
The state Council of Red Men held
their state council in Wichita. opening
Feb IS
The Lee farm in sedgwick county,
$4,000.
with a capital Of 500, 900, has taken a
charter.
Winfield has been offered SIC, 900 for
a public library, his usual terms, by
Mr. Carnegie
The postohace appropriation bill pro-
vides for the continuance of the fast
mail service from Kansas City to New
ton
The city of Topeka has confessed
| Judgment for 5000 for damage done to
| a joint during the first raid by Mrs.
Nation
There is retired farmer living in
Hiawatba who recently made 81 800 in
one week by buying and selling
farm.
The Rock Island is to increase its
! yard tracks in Wichita considerably
/ and will put in a new steel turn table
/ So feet long.
/ The Kansas Society of the Sons of
/ the American Revolution holds ban
/ quets in Topeka annually on Washing
| toms birthday.
/ The validity of the law requiring
| doctors to secure state licenses before
practicing, is to go before the supreme
i court in a case from Barton county
/ Alfred Shinn, of Fort Scott, be-
/ queathed to Washburn college, two
twe1fths of his estate, which is con-
sidered worth from SIP, 900 to SIS, 900.
A row occurred over the employment
| ton of the basement of the State house,
in Topeka. The contractor surrendered
| to the union.
/ The report IF Grand Secretary Will
son shows the total Masonic member
| ship in Kansas to be 2e,3s6. with
| limitations during the past two years
| exceeding ?, 500.
| The seni-annual apportionments
among the school districts, of interest
on the invested school funds. viii be 80
| cents for each person of school age in
| the state. The amount to be distrib-
| uted is $196, $40 81
The salary of the city attorney of
| Winfield is s1e.66 a month. The city
council gave him a special fee for
certain work and one of the council
men has sued to recover for the city
| the money SO paid
The Union Pacific Land company
| has sold to certain Iowa capitalists
So, 900 acres of land in Thomas and
Logan counties The purchasers have
colonization agents at work to get
occupants for their purchase.
Judge J. G. Clogston of Eureka is
dead after long sickness He has for
many years been prominent in public
affairs of Kansas. He came to Green
wood county at the close of the civil
war in which he served. He was 81
years old
A. L. Seoclxwe1l, near Downs, bought
232 hogs from his neighbor- who sold
them because of their lack of corn. He
fed the hogs on wheat and alfalfa.
When he marketed the hogs he com
| puted the worth of the feed he had
used and says that the hogs netted
him S.. 800 He fed them four months.
Frank Ray, who was held in Jail at
Kingsley, charged with holding up the
operator at the Offerle station, broke
jail and disappeared
Kansas, with the single exception OF
Texas. has the largest permanent
school reserve fund in the Union This
fund is now more than 81 900, 900. This
money is never spent, but is invested
and re-invested in bonds of school
districts, townships, cities and countie.
: of Kansas The Kansas school FUND
also holds the entire bonded indebted
ness of the state.
w E. Wilson, of Smith county, i.
feeding rs cattle, taking care of IL
young calves and doing all his worl
| alone.
A new fast mail train is proposed t.
, be put the Union Pacific, through
Kansas. from Kansas City to Denver
: | The train is scheduled to make tn.