The Globe-republican., 1906-11-01


Mayor w. w. Rose, Of Kansas City,
Kan, has written a letter to the
clerk Of the Kansas supreme court,
stating that he is ready to pay his
$1,000 fine assessed for contempt and
take the $500 costs in the case as
soon as the bill Is presented to him.
Vie will be called upon for the
money as soon as the mandate Is re-
ceived from the United States SUI
preme court.
To Run Solid Train Of FIour.--Ar-
engagements have been made to make
daylight run over the Kansas City
Southern from Enterprise to New
Orleans, with train Of thirty cars
of flour to be delivered to H. T. Law
Ter, who for thirty years has been
agent for the -four in that city. The
train will be hammered and marked,
advertising the -four being transmit
ted, and will no doubt attract much
attention.
Work on Ice Cream Samples
The pure food law recently enacted
by congress is giving the chemical
department of the University of Kan
sas considerable additional labor. In
the food analysis laboratory the stu
dents are now at work upon samples
OF ice cream secured at different
places, to determine whether or not
they contain adulterants of preserva-
tives. The result Of the investigation
will be published in the next bulle-
tin OF the State Board of Health.
Studying the Kansas Method. A.
Filcher, secretary of the California
Agricultural Society, was in Topeka
to study the methods of F. D. Coburn
and the Kansas board of agriculture.
Mr. Filcher says that 1t Is the desire
of the California agriculturalists to
make their board as valuable to the
farmers there as the Kansas board
is in this state. He says that the
agriculturists Of California like the
methods of Mr.. Coburn and his
board.
Gov. Hoch Paroles. - Paroles were
granted by Gov. Hoch to Frank VIII
son. and Charles Shultz, both of
whom were sent to the penitentiary
from Harper county, April 20, 1904
for burglary. Their paroles were
recommended by the prison board
The prison sentence of w. H. Hart.
colored prisoner in the state peni.
tertiary. was committed by the gov
ernor Hart is said to be dying of
consumption and the prison physi-
clans recommended that he be re.
leased
Three New Officers for X. N. c.
Governor Hoch has issued commits.
sions to three new officers of the
Kansas National Guard. Abraham
c. Woodruff, of Yates Center, has been
promoted to first lieutenant of Com.
pany L of the First infantry. Henry
B. Rogers of Eldorado has been made
brevet captain of Company K of the
Second regiment for term of six
months. Frank L. Travis of lola has
worked up from the ranks to the
place of battalion quartermaster and
commissary of the First regiment of
infantry.
To Have Soldiers Monument =
Joseph Cook, of Bronson, has been
circulating a subscription paper for
funds for the erection of a monument
to the memory Of the old soldiers to
be placed in the Bronson cemetery.
In the few days that Mr.. Cook was
at work he secured $3.50 on the pa.
per. Several Fort Scott and other
out-of-town people subscribed liber-
ally and only one Bronson man that
Mr.. Cook had asked, refused to give
any amount.
Bird Feet Wide; Feet High -
Pode Pearce of Chicopee, demon
strated his ability with rife in
bringing down large sand hill crane
as 1t was flying over the camp. Pode
had a Winchester and fired several
shots before he landed on one of the
/
birds. The bird killed was one of the
largest seen In this vicinity for
years. 1t measured six feet and two
inches from tip to tip of its wings
and stood over four feet In height.
The bird will be taken care of by a
texidermist.
Reservoir VIII Cost 8 Millions. =
Work has commenced ON the large
storage reservoir at Lakin which is
being constructed by the United
States Sugar and Land Company at a
cost of over 100000. The contract
was let some weeks ago to the firm
If Egelston & Mathews. In the past
week they have been unloading car
Dad upon car load of machinery !
wagons and supplies. The outfit con. /
lists Of about $50 men and teams,
This force, 1t is expected, will be
loubled within the next ten days. {
rhe reservoir will be cemented. Il
o-5rlen Kansas Champion. - I'D
)-Brien. Of Florence, won the teour-
)'Brien. Of Florence, won the tourna.
nent shoot at Hutchinson and now /
laims the Kansas chamnionsh;n He Z