The Globe-republican., 1902-04-03

Walter $ Culver, formerly of Topeka.
died on March 10 at Circle City, Alaska
Ottawa is to have street fair, or, as
it is called there. a May festival, on
May 3 to 9.
Western Kansas school districts and
towns are clamoring to pay off their
bonds that are not due
John r. Hamilton, of Illinois, has
sold to s. s Findley, of Wichita, 800
acres of land east of Wichita for S13.-
CAS-.
s A. Deel. of Baldwin, has been APP
pointed superintendent of the United
States magnetic observatory at Homo
lulu.
sing He sold his claim at Lavvton for
S7oo and has not been seen since Christ
mas.
a Lawrence banker says that there
are twice many notes paid before
they due there are walls
asked for
Concordia has in use a revival tent
with capacity for 16, 600 people, and it
is regularly filed; so a dispatch from
there asserts.
Within a few weeks s75, 900 worth of
Geary county lands have changed
hands, and practically all of it has
been taken by home people
A s14,O 900 fire at Wal1eeny swept a
lumber yard. three dwellings, two
blacksmith shops, livery barn, and
damaged several other buildings.
The State Fair association has levied
a SO per cent assessment on the ca pitaI
stock to be used to erect a new grand
stand and make other improvements
Sumner county commissioners have
given the use of lots the county has
bought for taxes to be used for gardens
| by people who have none of their own
The register of deeds of Sedgvvicl1
county says that so per cent of the more
valuable property sold in the county in
the past ten years was bought by home
people.
Mrs Sarah b. Adams, mother of
James Barton Adams the verse writer
of the Denver Post, died at her home
in Topeka, on March IS. She was %
years old
The Winfield city council has accept
ed Mr.. Carnegie's proposition to give
SIS, 900 for a library there conditioned
upon the city's giving 81 800 year for
its support
The Rev. Mr.. Soderman, of Linds-
borg, who has been missionary in
China for several years, supported by
the church at Lindsborg, died in the
Orient recently.
Oscar Saunders, a farmer near Downs,
found his pocket book in his hay field
with two five dollar bills in it, in good
preservation. He lost his poclzetboolz
year and half ago.
Editor Hanna, of the Salina Repub-
hcan, has started movement for the
construction of an auditorium at Sa-
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popular subscri ption.
Former Lieut.. Gov. A J. Felt has
been given a pension of S24 a month,
and Geo. II. Evans, the Topeka con-
tractor now at the soldiers home, gets
$50 month pension.
J. L. CLANCY. a veteran eroceryman
of Fort Scott, died from hiccoughs, the
attack lasting for several days, All
sorts of doctors tried to give him re-
lief and failed to do so.
There are ST appeal liquor cases on
the docket for the April term of the
Shawnee county district court, and
Judge Hazen has set apart three weeks
of the term for hearing them He also
declares that every case will be tried
by jurors drawn from the jury box no
substitutes to be allowed the panel.
A Clearwater doctor wanted skull
ana secured a human mead from a med
zeal college at ST. Louis The doctor
buried the head in manure heap to
effect its decomposition, where it was
forl1ed out by a man who was hauling
out the manure. A sensation resulted.
A Topeka truss manufacturing COM
pany now has c, 900 agencies in the U nj
ted States and last year shipped their
goods to Canada, Mexico, New Zealand,
and the Philippine Islands Their
trade covers every state and territory
in the union.
Phillips county assessors report the
acreage of wheat larger than ever be-
fore and that all of it is in fine shape
except the volunteer wheat They say
the prospects for large yield We're
never better in March
Western Kansas is handicapped in
the production of sugar beets by the