The Globe-republican., 1902-02-06
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

with capacity OF 20, 900 a day.
All cottonwood trees have been taken
out of the city park at Clay Center.
The Union Pacific is to erect new
$4,000 depot in Topeka next summer.
State Printer w Y Morgan has been
elected president of Hutchinson bank.
He retains his newspaper.
Arrangements are being made to re-
open the Solomon salt wells which have
been shut down for two years.
Morton Albaugh has sold his home in
Kingman and will reside in Topeka
during his term as state bank commits
sioner-
The biennial election law was argued
in the supreme court on Jan. 27, in a
case affecting the appointment of
judges
Contracts amounting to more than
$1,000 have been let for the compile
ton of the ground floor of the Kansas
capitol
The democratic state convention in
Wichita May 20 will consist of 776
delegates with like number of al
ternates.
General Funston has named his boy
Arthur Macarthur Funston. The boys
mother naturally wanted his name 70
be Frederick.
Mrs. Mary Battey, wife of postmaster
d. c. Battey of Florence, died from
blood poisoning caused by the prick of
a pin on her finger
The travelling section of the Kansas
state library contains s,274 books
There are now 153 travelling libraries
from the state library in use in the
state.
The board of directors of the Kansas
49,
on the plan for new dormitory and
so report to the grand lodge which
meets at Topeka on February 49,
The boy found frozen to death near
Winfield has been identified as Frank
Jones. of CedarvaIe. He had left home
to go to a brothers home at TisdaIe
The boys blind mother lives in Vich-
tia.
The Coffeyvil1e Window Glass com
pany has applied for a charter 1t is
composed of capitalists of Muncie, Ind,
glass manufacturers and has a capital
of $4,000. The factory will employ 70
men.
The alfalfa acreage of the state last
year is given at $40, 142 acres, alfalfa
now being the second tame grass in the
state, considerably exceeding clover
and blue grass and but Sigh tly behind
timothy.
C@Gses brought by Shawnee Indians
for possession of fine farms in johnson
county for which parties have held deeds
for 25 years, approved by the interior de-
partment, are meeting with success
in the courts
The four hay and fodder plants,
sorghum, ni1let and Hungarian, kafir
corn and alfalfa, increased in acreage
in the state from 9Os, ss5 acres in 1895
to 1, s64, ISL acres last summer, or more
than 100 per cent in five years
Geo. N. Goddard, of Nortonville, has
just paid Judgment of Sc, 900 in
breach of promise case, with 5000 in
terest and $500 costs He is on old
and these payments nearly ex-
haust his income for one year
The big engine at the penitentiary
machinery broke down, causing a prac-
teal suspension of work. The engine
has been use for twenty-one years
and this is its first breakdown
Book publishers are notified that
copies of their publications, with bids,
must be sent to the school book com
missioners, not later than April L, and
that no bid will be received later than
P M of May g.
Kansas has next to the largest soap
factory in the United States. 1t, like
the packing houses, brands its export
products From Kansas City, q. S. A =
while all of them come from Kansas
City, Kansas. Are these manufacturers
of soap and packers of animal products
ashamed of being located in Kansas?
Ed J. Herring, a Santa Fe engineer,
has married Miss Nora NJ Stone at
wellington They will make their
home at Hutchinson
An Indiana corporate company has
promoters at work upon plan to Sc
cure gas leases within 100 miles Oh
Wichita and to pipe the product into
the city
Harry Donmeyer, of New Cambria
took 40 2-year-old native steers tc
Chicago and sold them for SO. 95 pei
cvt. The steers brought an average
of sos head
Welcome Wells has died at his home
in Manhattan, aged 90 years He wa: