The Globe-republican., 1902-01-16
KANSAS ITEMS OF rxrERnsr.


Work has commenced with sonae en-
ergy on the coal hole at Atchis0R-
J. c. Beatty, of Ottawa. has aSoaaghr
600 acres of farm land near Solomon
for ST., 500 cash
Dickinson county farmers are al
ready worrying about where their seat
corn will come from
Out of $50 so-ca1Ied cases OF szaa11poz
reported in Kansas in December theirs
was but one fatal case.
Peach growers of Douglas county say
that the peach crop never was none
promising than just now.
The health officer of Mitchell county
has forbidden all public meetings ON
account of small pox scare
dispatch from Holton declares that
500 conversions have occurred at the
great revival just closed there
Glen Elder is reported to have 20
cases of smallpox The mail is furai-
gated before it leaves the town.
Kansas wheat tops all markets,
thanks to the new seed wheat imported
by the State BIillers' association
There is beautiful natural park at
Wamego and preparations are going on
to put it in the best condition possible.
The school children of district 49, in
Barber county, Numbering A pupils,
sent in s7.e5 to the Mckinley memorial
fund.
David Duncan, of Doniphan county,
declares that b44shel of wheat is
equal to two bushels of corn for fatten-
ing hogs.
The.executive council has contracted
for the removal of the horrid ssdecora-
lions OF the rotunda of the state house
and for re-frescoing it,
Judge Smart, of the district court at
Ottawa, fined the police judge of OF
tawa for not appearing in court when
summoned as a witness.
The Cottre1 Bros, of Marshall coun-
ty near Irving, are Hereford breeders.
They have recently purchased more
land and now have 900 acre ranch.
Many Kansas towns are forming com
merciaI climbs just in time to have
representation at the Reciprocal con-
vention at Topeka on January % and
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L. W. Kabler bought Kingman
county farm for $500 a few months
ago Recently an Indiana man offered
him SO, 600 for the farm and Kabler re-
fused it.
A Leavenworth furniture company |
has contracted for convict labor in the |
KANSAS penitentiary at SO cents day |
of ten hours, with power, heat, shop |
and storage room included. i
Judge Hazen of the Shawnee county |
district court. has decided that the
sheriff has right to send papers to
an out of town officer, by mail, and |
then charge mileage for serving them.
Superintendent Nelson's report shows
the average of term of public schools
Cherokee county averaged 80 weeks.
The average school district tax levy for
schools of the state is ten and nine
tenths mills.
Reuben Weeks, Pottawatomie
county farmer, kept cattle in a corral
without water, his windmill having
failed. The cattle broke out and rushed
toward the Kansas river half mile /
away. There were 60 of them and they
went in a body overEa high bank and
at least 40 of them were drowned
A double criminal was arrested at
Emporia on two charges, one for an at
tack upon 13-year-old girl and the |
other for peddhng obscene literature.
The young villain got off with one fine
of s25.
JOurneymen plumbers of Wichita
have struck without previous notice,
and demand one hours less work a day |
and so cents per day more pay. They |
will get neither. The master plumbers
would have considered the demand if |
notice had been given in time to make
contracts to lit the new terms
Money is coming into the state treas
ury at the rate of SIS, 900 day from |
county treasurers, but it is expected
that before the middle of January it |
will be coming in at several times that
rate
The republican state convention is to |
be dated by the state committee on jan
nary 20, when they meet with the Kan |
sas Day club
Clay county's handsome new court |
house stands in the center of a block |
500 by 400 feet which was planted with |
forest trees 25 years ago
= Ben johnson sold a hog at Alma that |