The Globe-republican., 1908-10-08

| French IL. OllVer CLOSED an eVdHbei-
istic meeting at Phillipsburg which has
been in progress since August 30. AS
result OF his work Asst converts were
made A voluntary offering of $996.06
was received to pay the expenses or
the meeting, and $1,04S.S3 was con-
| tributed Sunday to pay the evangelist
and his three assistants.
One Found GuiIty.-The jury at Nor
ton in the trial of Charles and Ralph
| Madden for the murder OF Sam ROW
ley, acquitted Charles Madden and
found Ralph Madden guilty of man
slaughter In the second degree, after
being out about five hours. Rowley
was killed in a fight with the Mad
den boys August /, and the evidence
showed that he made no resistance
and that Ralph Madden followed him
up when he tried to get away and
struck him number of times after
he fell.
100000 Pounds Of Oats.--Thomas
Dixon of Junction City has been
awarded the contract for furnishing
oats for the two army posts Riley and
Leavenworth. The contract calls for
100000 pounds of oats-S,O0O,0Oc
for Riley and 100000 for Leaven-
worth--to be used commencing Octo-
Der | and ending July 1. Mr.. Dixon
had the contract for last year. There
Is considerable increase in the amount
now contracted for over any previous
year. The fact that the contract is
given to a Junction City man means
much to the farmers Of the county,
as Mr. Dixon will this year, as In
previous years, buy as much OF the
grain here in the home market as he
can. OF course, the quality must be
OF the best, and for these the highest
market price is paid.
Raise Quarantine in Western Couh-
ties.-The government and state quar-
antine authorities will remove the
quarantine from seven Western Kan
sas counties at once. These counties
have been quarantined since last
spring because of mango among cat
tie. They are: Decatur, Hodgeman,
Ness, Ellis, Rush, Pawnee and Ed
wards. The first of last January there
were thirty-five counties in Western
and Southwestern Kansas that were
quarantined against on account OF
mango. Since that time the state and
government officials have been work
ing out plans to stamp out the dis
ease They have been working through
| the long summer and have driven
mentioned above. The government
and state quarantine on the balance
of the counties VIII be raised October
10 so there are twenty-eight counties
from which the mango must be stamp
ed out within a very brief period.
Big Bond Issue For Three.-Three
counties of the state, Montgomery,
Wyandotte and Sedgwick, issued near
ly half Of all the new bonds issued in
Kansas last year. The total for all
counties was $3,2S9,529 and this in
cluded city, township, county and
school district bonds, Montgomery
county issued $539,972, Wyandotte
$501 OIL and Sedgwick issued $4S9,622.
Other counties which issued a good
sized bunch of bonds during the last
fiscal year were these: Crawford
$148,S51, Labette $113,7j0, Shawnee
$92, OS9, Cowley $S9,066, Seward $685.
315, Renok $79,970, Johnson $76,676.
The total bonded debt of all the
counties, cities, townships and school
districts of Kansas is $35,625,S44. Tiis
debt Is divided as follows: County
debt $40, 769,62S, city debt $40, 161, 1886,
school district debt $4,272,327. The
county with the smallest bonded
debt of any county in the state is
Cove, which has outstanding in al
kinds Of bonds, city, township county
and school district, only $4,000.
Cleo Bennett Has Reformed. Cleo
Bennett, woman who was the terror
Of the Topeka police for years, has
been released from the penitentiary
and Ia doing evangelical work. She
says she has reformed and that here.
after she will devote her time to saw
ing hayward women.
For a Ten-Ton Alfalfa MiII.-A. H.
Hill and A. G. Collins of Wichita have
commenced the erection of a 'ten-ton
alfalfa mill at Burton. 1t is expected
that the structure will be completed
in three or four weeks. This is Mr..
Collins second venture with an al.
falfa mill In Burton. His first mill,
together with large elevator, was
destroyed by fire last April-presum
ably the work of an incendiary.
The Half Million Mark.-The half
million mark for hog receipts at the
Wichita Union stock yards has been
passed. To be exact, at the close OF
business the week ending September
25, the total number of porkers UNI
loaded at the yards from January /
was 500.460. For the same period of
1907 there were 331,S54 hogs received.
The increase for the present year is
16S,606, or so per cent.
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where sick almost to death he had
remained all summer. His family,