The Globe-republican., 1902-05-29
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

the Ere is unknown.
The May term of the district court of
Norton county did not have a single
case the docket
The Santa IFe ice house at Argentine,
destroyed by FIRE on May /. was the
second largest on the Santa Fe system
The Santa Fe ran a special train
from SaIina to Emporia for the benefit
of the Commercial Travellers gather
ing
training school for nurses has been
esta blished by the state board of chart
ties. Tt is located at the Osawatomie
asylum
The Barry brick yards at Atchison
are completely destroyed by fire, at
loss of $50, 900. About As men are
thrown out of employment
Commencement exercises at Baker
university Will be held June s.
There are IL men and fourteen women
in the graduating class
n. B. Burge, a state house stenogra-
pher, in Topeka, has, on his Kaw bot
tom farm, IS acres of cucumbers, esti-
mated to contain 45, 900 hills.
From 1883 to 1900 the Third district
of Kansas never gave a Republican
majority, and in 1900 the Republican
candidate for congress was beaten.
John Everett was washing a window
on the third floor of building in To
pelza. and slipped fell to the alley, and
received injuries thought to be falal-
Two thousand of the Santa Fe-s shop
men in Topeka have joined in a boy
colt of the beef trust, pledging them
selves to buy no dressed beef for 80
days.
j. It. EnterIine and II. D. washburn,
OF Downs, have returned from their
trip around the world. Their expenses
during the four months of their absence
was about 81 500 each.
Martin Garvin, a farmer of Nemaha
county, while drilling a we'll, struck
25-inch vein of soft coal IT'S feet under
the surface. A company Will be formed
to open up coal mine.
Major E. R. Powell an old and much
respected citizen of Wichita, died six
hours after being in jured in runaway
accident. Mr.. Powell would have been
To years old in June of this year.
The state board of assessors has fixed
a basis for the assessment of all tele-
graph lines in Kansas. The first wire
and poles assessed at Sos a mile, and
each additional wire at SO a mile.
State superintendent Frank Nelson
National Teachers association meeting
at Minneapolis, MINI, on should the
State Teachers reading circle work be
made compulsory"
eThe Emporia electric light plant,
which is owned by the city, cleared
1880 last year Emporia recently
voted bonds to the amount of $50, 900
with which to enlarge the present plant
or build new one.
The courts are Systematically provi-
ding boarding places in safe places for
managers of joints run as branches of
the Kansas Utopian association; the
latest instance being reported from
Plainvi1le, Rocks county.
Four complete pack trains have ar
rived at Fort Riley from Cuba. Each
train is complete with packmasters,
packers etc, fifteen men in all There
are sixty-seven mules with each train.
and the entire equipment was brought
with them.
Rain fell in every county in Kansas
during last week, varying from three
tenths of inch to two inches and
over The lightest rainfall was in
Morton county and the heaviest in Elk
county
There are six candidates in the field
for department. commander of the 6.
A. R. of Kansas-Co1one1 Anthony of
Leavenworth, Charles Harris of EN-
poria, ]. B. Remington Of Osawatonie,
Colonel Loon1is of Winfield, L. c..
Weldy of Galena, and r. A. Campbell
of Hutchinson.
Thirty years ago Major Powell, of
Wichita, was given a valuable watch
by the Masonic fraternity, which he
was wearing at the time he met death
inn RIM he 4ah haS
been found
Talk in group in Topeka the other
day turned on the question of the
'swe1l-fSed' men of Northwest Kansas
1t was finally decided that Elmer Ames
of Norton leads in the treasures of this
earth, with Joe Burrow of Smith Cen
ter, second, and 7. A Rodgers. of Be
lott, third
The town of Ames. in Cloud county.