The Globe-republican., 1902-02-20
Kansas ITEMS OF INTEREST


Lawton, Okla, where he had gone on
business
Fire has destroyed in Lexington a
meat market. a doctors Office, and
damaged a furniture store and the
postoffice-
Records show that the first company
of colored soldiers raised for the Union
xar1nv was raised in Linn county, Kan
sas, in 1862
Superintendent Frank Nelson has a
second circular out on the consolidation
of rural schools. The first circular was
well received.
Frank b orr, a merchant of Harper,
has shot himself. He seemed worried
over his business, although he was well
fixed financially
Fire at Erie destroyed four business
places on the morning of Feb l. The
row was in the center of the business
portion of the city.
The supreme court has decided to
take up the Jessie Morrison case in full
court The case had been assigned to
a division of the court
The receipts of the internal revenue
at the collectors office for Kansas and
Oklahoma for the month of January
amounted to s54, 273-15-
Martin Reilly of st. NIarys, market
ed 81 Aberdeen-Augus and Galloway
steers of his own raising, at Sc 35- They
averaged 1,441 pounds.
A Leavenvorth, Kansas and Western
train was wrecked at Leonardville by
snow drifts and Henry j. Ortman, the
mail clerk was badly bruised
The title given the Missouri Pacific
railroad company to what is now
=. 70 n
been decided to be a good title.
The republican state convention at
Wichita will probably meet on May p
instead of the 2sth, so that delegates
may get home for Memorial day
The contract for painting and deco
rating the courtroom, ante room and
Judges chamber of the Topeka, Kans.
federal building has been awarded al
s735.
Mrs. Brooke mother of ex-President
d. NJ Brooke, of Lane University a
Iecompton was perhaps fatally burned
at her home. She is II years old and
feeble
The state Society of Labor at its ses
sion at Topeka discussed the presenting
of q bill to the next legislature fol
establishing a state board of arbi
tration-
Trainmen on the IIiovva branch from
Wichita say that almost every farme
southwest of the city has small &c
house and they were filing them will
inch ice.
The brief in the case of Kanssl
against Colorado in the matter of tn
use of the water of the Arkansas river
has been fled in the United State
supreme court
The Kansas University Phi Gamm
Delta fraternity has held a reunion a
which former members of the societ
and alumni of other chapters in tn
West We're present
There are SO railway postal clerl,
on the payroll of the Wichita distric
The amount they are paid annually fc
railway mail service through the Wicf
it; postoffice is $33, 600
Topeka has an industrial school fo
girls with 500 enrolled There is
like school for boys with an averag
attendance of 1906 Both of these wei
organized and are under the directio
eff Mrs. Thorpe, the police matron-
Young natives and the more recel
in coming to Kansas of the prese1
population do not know that ColoraS
was once a part of Kansas and that
1856 Arapahoe county voted for a del
gate from Kansas and in 1857 "
represented by a member in the IA
sas Legislature
Jesse Cook. son of the sheriff
Shawnee county, declined an -appoir
rnent to West Point, which was tende
ed to him by Congressman Curtis
A farmer in Cherokee county W
allowed a man to put lightning rods
his house for a nominal sum- in ord
to advertise them and put his sign
ture to d contrace, found out later III
the signature was on the business e
of a note for $500. After a vvranglt
compromise was effected and Mr.. II
guided Farmer got out on payment
S175.
The republican state convention "
dated by the central committee
May IS Now Governor Stanley 81
cests that the convention may exte
into the third day which would bri
it to Memorial day, and for that reas