The Globe-republican., 1902-04-17
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Abilene had but one city ticket at
the spring election The registration
was very light
The Sunday fire at Hutchinson de
stroyed the Martin dry goods store,
the stock being valued at S1IO, ,Ooo-
There was $50, 900 insurance stock
and fixtures
Geo. Buckner, notorious negro at
tackled Mrs j. w Bell and robbed her
of $40 on the street in Topeka His
wife is now in the penitentiary for
highway robbery
Recitations at Midland college, Atchi-
son have been suspended on account
of some cases of smallpox. Prof. Dorm
blazer and several students have a mild
form of the disease
Mrs, William Small has given $50, 900
to establish old ladies' rest in Leav-
enworth, which is to stand as a memo
rial to her late husband, pioneer
merchant of Leavenyvol-th
VIM. BristOw, father of Joe Bristovv
fourth assistant postmaster general,
has resigned the position of clerk of an
Indian school in New Mexico, and will
settle down at his home in Baldwin.
Eastern capital is being invested in
Rush county and adjacent territory, in
large amounts The wheat crop is in
fine condition there and the ground is
wet down deeper than the roots grow
The car repair force of the Santa Fe
at Florence has been reduced leaving
only cleaner. Several engine men
have been laid off also, and the depot
and round house forces expect a reduc-
ton
Mrs Martoa Smith, of Pao1a, in her
r. ~
PaOla free library and reading room.
After the bequests and expenses are
paid it is estimated that there will be
$40. 900 left for the library. Mrs. Smith
made the bequest "a memorial to her
late husband John Ulrich Smith.
Fred Smith and his bride of week,
with Edward Smith and Minnie Mainey
who were to have been married on Sun
day, were driving home together from
WOodman dance at st. Marys. At
crossing between St Marys and Ross
vile they We're struck by a train and
three of them instantly killed. Fred
Smith may not recover. The team and
vehicle are a complete loss
a. Lambotte, of Sa1ina, has two old
violins which will go to the ST. Louis
worlds fair. One of them bears the
date of 1913, and so far as he knows is
the oldest violin in the world. Mr..
LTmbotte will also send to ST. Louis a
violince1lo made by himself. A soloist
from Chicago came to Salina to see
this instrument and he pronounced it
the sweetest toned cello he had ever
put a bow on.
The bureau of forestry of the depart
ment of agriculture has sent men to
measure the growth made by the ca
talpa trees on the Yaggy farm in Reno
county The catalpa forest on the
farm consists of 44o acres, planted close
enough to shoot the growth upward.
The first posts were cut last year;
SO-acre tract was thinned out and
thousands of posts were sold from it.
The great railroad companies are
watching this forest, being deeply in
terested in cata1pa culture, and
pecially interested in Mr.. Yaggy's
grove it is the most noted catalpa
forest III the United States.
A Topeka greenhouse man has been
shipping asparagus to New York City.
For little punches about the size of
your wrist, he receives 81 a dozen
Miss Cole Mira Three Fingers,
daughter of a Kiowa chief, is visiting
the smaller towns of Central Kansas
on a lecture tour A principal attrae-
ton which brings out the people to
near her is her dress of buckslzin
trimmed with 435 elk teeth, which is
said to be worth $500. Miss Three
Fingers is well educated and accom-
plished.
Mcpherson is chosen as the location
for cooperative wholesale grocery
house, organized by retail grocers of
that district. dividends to be paid them
in proportion to their purchases
J. L. Norris, who was visiting his
cousin near Furley, Sedgwicl< county,
having come with his brother from
Harris Ill, in the hope of qufeting his
de1uSSn developed insanity and was
to snthu been taken in cbarge. When
PROM went to his room for that pur-
a5ginnie ier sbo+. bi,,,slIf ,5e..d
put t. a,...,- -
ty, h been suspended for negIecting
to l<ee- certain accounts, a cash book