The Globe-republican., 1902-03-06
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

found north of COncOrdIa-
The snow of the night of the 1sth-
18th covered Kansas, and was worth
big dollars.
Prof. T. w. Conway of Sterling, is
candidate for the presidency of the
A1va, Ok, normal school
The Bell telephone central Office at
junction City, with barber shop un-
der it, have been Quilted by fire
John V Farwe1, a Chicago whole
sale merchant, visited Ottawa to assist
in conducting the revival there
Lieut.. Adna G. Clarke has reported
for duty. He is assigned to the field
artillery at Fort Douglass, Utah.
San1l. Mitchell, a Caldwell real estate
man, thought he was drinking whisky
but it was ch1oroform and ether.
The quarterly payment of pensions
from the Topeka Office, commencing
February 4, amounted to s.. 483. 74o-35-
The Kingman Journal announces
that s+since the advance in the price of
wheat, rubber-tired buggies have been
seen on the streets
DIR. W. II. Richards, of Emporia, has
purchased nine Percherons, Belgians
and big French draft horses, paying
1922, 900 for the nine.
An excellent program has been pre-
pared for the 18th annual meeting of
the State Dairy association at Manhat-
tan March 4 to 8.
Rumors are ahoat all along the line
that the Frisco will build a new line
from Wichita to Blackwell Okla, and
from there to Sapu1pa, l. Z.
The Kansas horticultural society has
just received a handsome gold medal
from Paris, a reward for the exhibit
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ton of 1900.
Henry Grice of White Rock township
has lot of 1899 corn which he held
over and which he is selling for seed
corn. It's about the same as so much
goldsmith County Journal.
j. A. Peel of Finney county recently
sold a Jersey red hog that was raised
on alfalfa ard finished with 800 pounds
of corn The hog netted him $24. so,
the profit paying his taxes for 1901.
The Grain Growers association meet
ing will be held at Hutchinson on
March 4. A rate of one and one-third
fare has been granted from all points
in Kansas, Oklahoma and Nebraska.
The free delivery service win be es-
tablished at Wellington. Kas.. June L,
which was discontinued in 1895, with
three regular and one substitute letter
carrier, and seven street letter boxes
Eugene f. Ware of Kansas, has been
appointed by the president, member
of the visitors to attend the annual ex-
animation at the National Military
Academy at West Point, in June 1902
1t is said that the extension of the
Missouri Pacific from Mcpherson to
Marquette, Kans-, about fifteen miles,
will be built the coming summer 1t
from Sa1ina north to Yuma. Ks, about
forty-five miles.
E. B. Denison, a Chicago man, pro-
poses to put S275, 900 into a sugar mill
at Independence this spring, and have
it ready to handle the sorghum crop OF
1902. He asks for a gas we'll and a site
for his mill He is asking the farmers
- make contracts to grow 1900 acres
of sorghum the coming season; for
which he will pay 81. so ton at the
factory.
=. H. Clark of Lyon county is a hero
He had dynamite in box near a stove
to thaw it. He left the room and upor
returning saw that the box or
fire. He carried it out in his arms ano
threw water on it.
Palmyra grocers refuse to buy butter
from farmers who order everything
from Chicago. The ladies of a church
bazaar of Palmyra, wrote to the Chi
cago firm which has been filing theil
mail orders for contribution, and tn,
firm replied that it confined its giving
to charity to their home town. See?
Senator Burton has been honored b,
being called to preside over the senate
The honor consists Of this having &C
CURED so early in his first term.
A Wisconsin paper. in Dragging OF
the per capita wealth of a county u
there says Not even in Kansas i
there county that can show sucl
wealth.
Dr. E. r. svitzer, of Salina, is cred
tied with being the first man in Kansa
Eas to have an alfalfa field In 1874 h
put in two acres He obtained tn
eeed in San Francisco.
The State Railroad Commission Ia