The Globe-republican., 1902-08-21
KANSAS ITEMS OFF INTEREST.

rain and everybody is happy.
Grading has commenced on trolley
line from O1athe to Kansas City
John 3. Richardson. of Kansas. has
been appointed consul at Utilla, Hon
duras.
Travelling men have started fund
to appeal the case of Jessie Morrison,
of Ell Dorado.
There has not been a called in
the Concordia police court for more
than month.
Major Hood, of Emporia, has won
his suit, the one Martindale brought
against him charging fraud
The Rock Island has followed the
Missouri Pacific in granting a reduc-
ton on packing house products.
Several districts of Dickinson county
are arranging to unite under the town
ship school plan and have graded
schools.
Clay county schools will mostly have
longer terms next winter, and the
teachers to have increase in
their pay
There are AZ farming implement
manufacturers which have representa-
tives in Wichita, who give employment
to 296 people
The Kansas university has just
ceived one of the rarest swimming rep
tiles of the old cretaceous ocean. 1t is
ten feet long.
Within short time there have been
seven men arrested in Topeka by the
United States marshal for selling
liquor to Indians
The old settlers of Reno county held
their annual picnic at Hutchinson on
the 18th, upon the Goth anniversary of
the creation of Reno county
message from Wisconsin states that
j Judge A. II. Horton is somewhat i'm
proved in condition and that he is able
to take a little exercise each day
Two men, by name Joe Bush and A.
j. Nix, have been arrested at Pao1a on
the charge of robbing the postoffice at
Wagstaff, Miami county. The office
was rified of $5os.
Judge Hook, of LeavenwOrth, grant
ed injun ction enjoining G. w Crane
and others from interfering with the
American Book company The case is
to be heard in Wichita August H.
Mrs. Rebecca Buckley Burlzet, who
has just died at Holton, was a grand
daughter of John Hart, one of the
signers of the Declaration of Indepen-
dence. Mrs. Burkett was rs years old.
Prof and Mrs. D. A. Ellsworth of
the state normal at Emporia, to
make a / 900 mile voyage along the
coast. of Labrador in the interest of the
department of geography Of that
school.
Ralph Carter Harrison, of Co1wich,
one and half years old, has to his
credit in bank So, 900 and title to S., 7o7
worth of land. The fortune left
to him by his grandfather, James
Greenfield, of Ohio
"A fire at,Parsons started in a grocery
store and destroyed So 900 stock. 1t
reached. a department store and did
much damage The second story was
occupied by offices and lodges, all of
which sustained losses.
w. w. Woodruff, a goat ranchman
of Texas, was with a carload of goats
which We're yarded at Arkansas City to
be fed In the yard a huge hornets
nest was disturbed and about 20 of the
goats died from being stung-
The Missouri Pacific depot at Clyde
was robbed by two men who held up
the night operator and opened the
money drawer They could not open
the safe which contained So, 900. Sheriff
Moore arrested the burglars near Rice.
j. T. Minniclz thneshed the crop of
wheat from So acres at Hillsdale, with
total yield of $50 bushels and an
average yield of 36s6 bushels to the
acre. The wheat was standard weight.
Four acres of this field made 17s bush
els, or 11s{ bushels to the acre, which
tested 81 pounds to the Ssashel-
Engines Charles Singleton. of the
Missouri Pacific, has Disappeared He
left the dinner table at his boarding
house and went out and has not been
seen since This occurred sometime
since. He left all his personal effects
at the boarding house
The Kings Daughters have fitted up
a room in the city building in Wichita
for the use of the working young
women to spend their noon hour and
bring their lunches The room is nicely
furnished with every convenience and
the latest magazines are provided
S. A. FIenner, for many years a mil
Ter of Abilene. and who was just com
pleting fine mill to succeed one