The Globe-republican., 1902-07-10
KANSAS ITEMS OF rsrEEEzr.

20 acres; over &c bushels to the acre.
The Winfield Chautauqua assembly
is said to have been successful to a re-
marlxable degree in all departments of
the work.
The rate of taxation in Biovva county
is SO. AZ on 500: the highest in the
state. Cove county has the lowest
rate-s2. TO-
Clay Center is now about rid of the
cotton bearing trees The battle to ex-
tirpate them has been going for
some years
Excessive rains are doing much dam
age to crops. Over 700 acres of har-
vested wheat is under water in Potta-
watomie county.
Captain and Mrs. B. Rockwell, OF
Junction City, with their daughter and
Miss Chaffee, have gone to Manila for a
visit to friends.
Mrs. Peter Boysinger, of Ga1ena, has
died from the sting of scorpion.
When stung she became unconscious
and never rallied
The state convention of the Univer-
salist church of Kansas was held in the
Plymouth Congregational church in
Wichita last week.
On July 1, g. So inches of rain fell at
flooded and several bridges on country
roads We're washed out.
Mrs. c. A Scott, of Busby, Elk
county, lost her house by fire with $3.50
of money in it. She had a narrow es-
cape with bad burns
Third Vice President Kendrielz, it is
announced, will remain with the Santa
Fe, declining the position of European
agent of the Westinghouse company.
Mrs w V church, wife of superin-
tendent of Insurance Church, was
thrown from her carriage while driving
and probably quite severely injured.
The horse ran away.
The 11-cent differential rate on
wheat shipped from Wichita to Calves
ton has been restored; making the rate
from Wichita to Galveston a half cent
less than from Kansas City.
The Pacific Express company has put
on an extra ear on it's west bound
routes out of Wichita over the Missouri
Pacific r. r. This was made neces-
sary by the heavy business
Larned Is prosperous Several good
buildings are being erected. A new
telephone exchange building is com
pleted, with toll line connections be-
tween all the neighboring towns.
Little River township of Reno county
is still making efforts to get its s23, ooo
= 6 per cent bonds. The township
wants to pay the bonds which the
county holds and will not give up.
= G. A. r. officials, department of Kan
sas, now in Washing ton preparing for
the national enoampment there in Oc-
tober, told reporters there that Kan.
pie.
All Kansas railroads made hall
fare rate for the state fair at Hutchin
son Septem Der 1919 The premium
list foots over SIC, 900, of which So, oOt
is to be given in the cattle depart
mcnt.
One of the governments keenes
scientists is Miss NJ. E. Pierce, former
ly of Manhattan, Kansas Miss Pierre
is chemist of high repute, and is tn
soil analyst of the department of ag
riculture.
Parsons lodge, A. O. U. w. No /
the first lodge of the Worl1men organ
lied in Kansas, will celebrate its 25tl
anniversary August TO-
John C. Lowe, who shot his wife a
the reform school near Topeka. is he'll
for nrder by the coroner Mrs. Low
was natron there and Lowe was a
employee.
Barber county has furnished tv
Kansas congressmen-Long and Siml
son, and Representative overstreet, {
Indiana. and Delegate Flynn used I
live in that county.
The solar salt works at Solomon
which was for a long time the 1eadin
salt plant of the state but which h
been closed for two years, is to be in
proved and put in operation IT
wells are to be deepened-
Captain A S. Rowan. of the Min
teenth infantry, who carried the me
sage to Garcia has obtained a lea
of absence and will be in Atchison in
few days to visit his family. CAPITA
Rowan has been in the Philippin
during the past three years and is no
at Angle island off the California coas
Two men We're fighting in Ell
poria park and J. H. Bryant, San