The Globe-republican., 1902-05-01
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

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Almost all of Douglas county has
been laid out in rural mail delivery
routes
A Kingman firm has already offered
s. each for the five largest pumpkins
raised this season
Two hundred out OF town NIasons at
tended the Scottish Rite annual
union in Wichita
The canyons have their Neodesha
smelter about one-half up. 1t covers
six acres of ground.
John Chromster, who has resided on
his original claim in Dickinson county
for thirty-One years, died on April IL
Albert Reid, the Topeka artist, had
more drawings at the Kansas City
newspaper artists exhibition than any
other artist
larly in his yards 25 men and four
teams and keeps several men on the
road buying junk
R. NJ. Chilcott, editor of the Times at
Wamego, was assaulted on the street
by gang of saloon people for opposing
them at the city election.
Cherokee county fruit growers are
confident of having a big crop this sea
SON The crop of fruits will be inn
mense excepting Strawberries
The Santa Fe proposes to expend
thousands of dollars upon its Wichita
& Western branch, for improving its
road bed and bettering the facilities of
traffic.
Richard Nevins, of New York, who
died in Chicago this week, was the
Inainstay of the supporters of the pro-
posed line between Emporia and
Omaha.
The old convict cemetery at the Lam
sing penitentiary, is now under SO feet
of slate and dirt dumped from the coal
mine. A cemetery has been
opened
Peter McKechnie has sold his inter
est in the Osborne Farmer to Charles
Hi1lebrandt, who will continue the
publication. McKechnie returns to
Beloit.
Sherman Harvey, who was a captain
in the 23rd Kansas, and Captain Hav-
lzins, both lawyers, have started to go
to Manila to practice law and go into
the tobacco business
A T. Sharpe, the travelling salesman
who stabbed and killed at Mem
phis, was the son of the late Amasa T.
Sharpe, for many years editor of the
Ottawa. Kansas, Daily Republican.
Mrs Isabel Worrel1 Ball, of Larned,
one of the best known newspaper wri-
tiers of Washington, has been called
home by the serious illness of her
mother, Mrs. James Purcell WorrelL
VIM. Reeue, postmaster at Willard,
was riding to Topeka in the caboose of
a freight train and had his hand on
the door jam when the train made a
bump. The door caught a finger and
took it Of
Chas- Sewers, n young resident of
Geary county, died from the explosion
OF gasoline lamp. He was regulating
the air pressure and the explosion
threw gasoline all over him. He leaves
young family
W. 81. Crane, the actor, says that he
and the late Senator Plumb were good
friends and often smoked and chatted
together. The Eldorado Republican
advises Crane to back up Plumb
never smoked in his life
The farmers in one section of the
state say that Secretary Coburn is I'M
de-estimating the crop and is SANDER
the state; the farmers in another sec
ton say he has over-estimated the crop
and is helping out the bears on the
Chicago market
The Katy has purchased the new line
from Moran to lola. The object of
building the line was to tap the gas
belt around lola. Heretofore the Mis-
souri, Pacific has had no competition
and it got all the business The Katy
connects with the new line at Moran.
Four prisoners were pardoaed out of
the penitentiary in the past year to
die, and four others died in the prison
There is one prisoner at Lansing serv-
ing his third term under assumed
names His parents live not far away
from the prison and yet they do not
know that he ever was in prison
Kansas and Kansans We're discussed
pro and con at the first annual dinner
of the alumni. former students and
former members of the Kansas state
Agricultural college, at Washington
the other night
Auditor Cole reports expenditures