The Globe-republican., 1902-04-10

April 4. as Arbor Day for Kansas
Eureka is to vote in April on building
a new SIS, 900 school house. of brick or
stone
A N staait has sold his ranch of
$40 acres in Franklin county. to local
men for sI5.6
sixty-four dollars an acre has been
paid recently for 125 acres in Park
township. sedgwiel1 county
The cheese factory which burned at
Potter is to be rebuilt Local subscrip-
i tons will make up the required
$4,000
Nearly every night and sometimes in
erdaytine burglaries are committed
in the west
Lee Watson the only son of , L.
Watson OF Parsons, was killed by con-
tact with a live wire while being hazed
by his school class
John w Haughey, of Wellington,
has received his commission fish
commissioner of Kansas The place
| pays 81, 900 year.
a fractional quarter section farm
near Derby, Sedgvvicl1 county, has
been sold at $50 acre 1t is nearly
a full quarter section.
s. IL. Hoyt has sold his ranch in
jackson county, known as the Cleming-
shire ranch, to j, p. Larsh, a Nebraska
Spectator The price was S3s.
Arthur Linn, young single man,
was smothered to death while working
at the salt mines at Kingman, caused
by a cave-in of the bins in a warehouse
Roebucl1's large grocery store at Ar
kansas City caught fire and the stock
was destroyed either by fire or water
Men who had rooms over the store es-
capped.
The Continental Creamery company
expects to pay out this year in Kansas
one and half million dollars tt, farm
ers for their milk. The company pays
S275, 600 to Dickinson county farmers
alne.
Kansas contains more old soldiers
than any other state in the union and
the pension agency at Topeka disburses
more money every month in the way of
pensions than any other agency in the
country.
Mrs Jap Humid and her two children
left NickersOn, Kas., for a new home
prepared for them in Oklahoma The
first news received of them after their
arrival told of the death of all three in
a prairie fire.
John Anderson, of Sa1ina has pur-
Ot-elSON1 CAAC tS1SI11Ode exchange at LlnQS-
borg, including the copper Wire toll
line system to Hoisington. Mr.. Ander-
son is also the owner of the exchange
at Marquette.
The Mu1vane ranch, near Rossville,
has lost by fire large barn, corn crib.
1000 bushels of corn, together with
the contents of the barn. The fire was
caused by hot box on a fodder shred
ding machine.
Miss Lena Schma1e. a farmers daugh-
ter living near Garland, Bourbon coun-
ty, was burned to death from the ex-
plosion of bottle of gasoline from
which she was pouring a portion into
a boiler of hot water
City Marshal Metz of Eudora, was
wounded by shot by Clyde Hughes
whom he had arrested for ATTEMPTED
burglary, while he searching his
prisoner. Hughes got away but he
carried with him in his leg a bullet
sent in his direction by the marshal
The executive council has appointed
three assistant state mine inspectors as
follows: Peter Braidwood, of Leaven-
worth, for the Leavenworth district:
James A Orr, of Cherokee, for the
Southeastern Kansas district; Thomas
Herzog, of Usage City, for the Usage
district.
I. E Conway alleges that he shipped
cattle from Caldwell in October 'O1 to a
Wichita commission firm who sold the
cattle for S3o7- OF, of which he has re-
ceived no part He has brought suit
for the money, his expenses and for
damages
The oldest man in Wellington is L.
D. Chaddon, justice of the peace. He
was "a last Sunday His wife is rs
years He was chumny with Roscoe
Conkling and used to go squirrel hunt
ing with him.
The mayor of Cripple Creek, Colo,
was in Wellington and declared it to
be his opinion that there are zinc and
lead ores there, and that the town has
oil underneath it
Police Matron Ella Glen Shields of
Wichita. yaS elected secratar-Sz The