The Globe-republican., 1902-05-22
KAs4sAs ITEMS OF INTEREST.


So, 1921 during the past year in pay
ing damages to individuals
The Hotel Hamilton at Severance
burned down with narrow escape of
persons on the second floor
The thirty-eight building and loan
associations doing business in Kansas
have assets of over 81, 900, 900.
Concordia papers are confident that
the north and south railroad line
through their town is sure GO
Two boys have been promoted for
good conduct from the reform school
at Topeka to the Orphans home at
Atchison.
An old army comrade of the father
of Fred Bradford, of Concordia, who
died recently in Pennsylvania, left
Fred $780,
The United Commercial Travellers of
Kansas. including the Oklahoma City
council, have a good time at Emporia
May 9-1o-
A Larned widow has been arrested
for cruelty beating an adopted daugll-
ter, an orphan child ID years old. She
was fined 500.
A wholesale egg and poultry COM
mission. house in Topeka is burned 1t
the largest one between Kansas
City and Denver
The mi1lers of Concordia decided to
bring suit against Nebraska for divert
ing the waters of the Republican river
into irrigating bitches in that state
a Great Bend young lady who is
gathering the autographs of her friends
tells the Tribune that there is orig
inal poetry in her album, but that it
does contain a great deal of original
spelling.
The Universalist State convention
which to have met in Wichita
May 27, has been postponed until the
latter part of June, because of the Re
publican state convention named for
the same date.
Contracts have been let for the cree
ton of Library hall at the state agri-
cultural college The winning bid
SO, 955, which does not include the
heating and lighting fixtures. The
building is to be finished by Sept. l.
The fOrty-eighth annual session of
the general associa ton of Congrega-
tional ministers and churches of Kan
sas, and the Woman's Missionary So
cieties of the state hold their annual
meeting at Manhattan, May to r.
The New Jersey Zinc company, one of
the oldest and probably the richest zinc
smelling company in the world, has
bought two smelters at Gas City, near
lola, and will add more. The company
has extensive purchases of gas lands
An expert coal miner says that there
is coal in Smith county He suggests
that d tax of few mills the dollar
be levied for the purpose of prospect
ing, and declares that it would be the
best Investment ever made by the
county
Tho Santa Fe special train which
took the Foresters to Los Angeles to
their annual meeting was composed of
one baggage car, two diners, one tour
list sleeper, and nine Pullman s1eepers;
thirteen in all. This train. with
weight of $50 tons, passed over the 4s5
miles from Chicago to Kansas City in
10 hours and SIS minutes It was drawn
by tsse kind of engine that don't
seerN to know when they are carrying a
1oad.s
The River Brethren missionaries
who went from Dickinson county to
India, have had their mission at Decca
destroyed. They escaped with their
lives.
Miss Orbie Wonderlich. the daughter
of an Osborne county farmer. won the
Ottawa university scholarship offered
the pupil making the best grade in the
Alton public school, standing first in a
class of pa Miss Orbie walked six
miles to school every morning. and was
neither absent nc tardy during the
term
Carnegie gave SIC. 900 for library to
Newton, asking the city to appropriate
81 900 year to run it. Newton APP
propriated 81 800 and Carneoie at once
added So, 900 to his proposition
The lola Register voices wonder
nent which is noticed in other towns.
every month there is shipped to lola,
from st. Louis. usually, $500 in
specie. more, to provide for pay day
Where does it go? Remittances from
the town are made by draft money
order; the banks do not accumulate
specie
Dickinson county farmers are doing
well in the matter of supplying mill,
to the creamery In spite of dry