The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-05
Northeast Kansas Notes.


It is not an assured fact that the
Hamlin business men who were burned
out in the recent fire viii rebuild. Very
few of them carried any fire insurance
and consequently have not the cash to
rebuild.
The Sabetha roller mill shipped out
a thousand barrels of flour this week
for eastern points. c. H White, the
proprietor. has more than he can at
tend to and the first of next month
J. NJ Roberts of Fairbury, Neb., who
has bought an interest viii help in the
management Last year they put in
new corliss engine, which viii save
enough fuel in two years to pay for
itself
The Powhattan Bee says that an IN
dian on the reservation near that place
beat his squaw badly and drove her
out of his house with nothing but her
night clothes on.
The Seneca Tribune is going to give
the ladies of the Congrega tionaI church
of that place full control of its issue of
March u, and they are going to work
to make it the best paper ever issued
in Nemaha county.
The Seneca COurier-DemOcrat saws:
1.-THE tabled song of the dying swan
was never more plaintive than the story
of Ed EOch, as told by himself. after
he had been run through the cOgwheels
of Cy Leland's Republican machine. =
and then publishes HOchs article in
full
A recent statement of the Brown
County Farmers Mutual Fire Insur-
ance company shows that with over Sd
600. 900 at risk. the loss was only about
Sc 600, or less than one-sixth of one per
cent.
Kansas loses another one of her old
pioneers in the death of James Newton,
who died in Nemaha county last week,
at the age of IS years. He was a hardy
Kentuckian. of the Hardshell Baptist
pioneer type, who came to Kansas in
1859. and through struggle and sacrifice
made Kansas what it is. In the early
days he ran a corn mill, where farmers
had corn ground for bread when wheat
-four was a luxury. he was vigorous
to the last and shortly before his death
walked to town and back several times
and the day of his death ate a hearty
supper, complained of not feeling well,
/ lay down on a couch and in half an
( hour was dead.
The Tribune says: There is consid-
cradle brewing, and there are no brew
cries in Seneca" Yes, and everybody
but the sheriff seems to be short on the
! product of the breweries.
Geo. II. Burkhalter, president of the
+ Opal Mercantile company at Opal,
/ Wyoming. died in Brooklyn, New York,
/ at noon March g. He went to New
i York for treatment of catarrh of the
stomach. He was accompanied by his
/ brOther-in-laW, Corbin c. Gotten, who
wired the news to his father, MI Peter
! Burkhalter. of White Cloud Deceased
I spent his early years in White Cloud,
where he received his education, grad
uating in the high schools of. this city.
He was engaged in business here many
I years before going to Opal Besides
1.-THE mercantile business he was engaged
+ in a large sheep ranch. He married
Miss Kate F'orncrook, daughter of W.
+ H. Forncrook. who was county clerk
of Doniphan county for several terms
and who subsequently, went to Wyom-
ing and locating a sheep ranch at Fon-
tenelle. The remains will be brought
to White Cloud for interment.
Damp. cool weather has prevailed
for several days rendering the roads in
bad condition and otherwise contribut-
ing 10 make business dull.
Col. Phil Kelly. White Clouds states
man. returned from Hutchinson where
he was attending reformatory councils
S. n. Perry has disposed of his prop
erty here and will move to Edgar
Neb., where his daughter, Mrs. Cox