The Globe-republican., 1908-10-22


business portion of Bonner Springs
watering resort twenty miles ives
of Kansas City, was destroyed by fir,
October 13, causing loss estimated
at $15O,OOO. Seven business house
were destroyed.
Gas Main to Emporia.-The worl
Of digging the ditch for the laying o
a pipe line from the Elmdale field tt
Emporia, to supply the latter towr
with natural gas, has been begun
The line already extends to Stront
City and will be extended here. A
ditching machine which works at the
rate of ten feet a minute Is alread!
about two miles out of Strong City
Pinned Between Cars.-Tom Lewis
a section hand, was injured, probably
| fatally, In a rear-end collision between
a freight train and a handcar in the
yards at Emporia. The car with Its
crew of five men was following the
freight at a high rate of speed, and
when the train stopped suddenly the
car collided with 1t and Lewis was
pinned to the drawbar head the iron
sticking through his right leg.
Get Ten Cents on DoIlar-The resi-
dence of Scott e. Whine, in Wichita,
has been sold by the trustees In bank
ruptcy for $4,000. Whine left Wich-
ita when 1t became known that the
Whine Mortgage company, Of which
he was president, was about to lapse.
The residence is about all the cred
itors get out of the Whine estate, and
this will not give them 10 cents on
the dollar. Whine is said to be in
Brazil.
Plague of Pigeons-A phenomenon
that is causing damage to the wheat
fields in Rice county is the myriads
of big, fat wild pigeons that appear
from no one knows. They appear
almost by millions obscuring the even
Ing sun and spend the nights and NOR
,nings In the wheat fields which they
leave as clean of Vegetation as would
a grasshopper raid. Pot hunetrs and
scarecrows can scarcely force them
to move on. 1t Is many years since
such visitation has happened before
In Kansas. They will disappear as
suddenly as they came.
Farm Product Prices.-At a meeting
of the Kansas branch of theAmerican
Society of Equity held at Wichita,
the following officers we're elected
President, L. P. King, Winfield; vice
president, L. T. Cross, Lewis; secre-
tary and treasurer, C. w. Peckham,
Haven; directors P. D. Spohn, lnman;
Frank Moore, Hayes; NJ. Chaplin, Hav-
en-; T. B. Umrich, Pawnee Rock; D. S.
Haverstadt, Oxford. This is the first
meeting of the society in this state.
The object Of the society is to fix the
price Of farm products. It does not
attempt to eliminate the middle man
as does the Farmers Union, but the
members think that there should be
unoform increase in the price Of farm
products.
Odd Fellows Elect otflcers.-In the
grand lodge of the Rebkah assembly
at Salina, the following officers were
elected for the ensuing year: Mrs.
Efie McCurdy, Larned, president;
Mrs Gertie X. Johnson, McLouth,
vice president; Mrs. Bertha Willis,
Wichita warden; Mrs. Isa e. Potter
Clifton, secretary; Mrs. c. B. White,
Hutchinson, treasurer In the granu
lodge Odd Fellows T. P. Roney of
Washington was elected grand senior
warden, the other officers having
been elected by the local lodges last
May. Wichita was selected as the
place for the meeting next year In
the competitive drill of the Patriarchs'
Militant teams Caldwell won the
prize. The only other team in the
contest was Kansas City, Kan.
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Forty Cows Under Cloud.-The gov
ernment has been making inspection
OF the cattle at Haskell institute at
Lawrence and has made some alarm
ing discoveries. There are ia cattle
IN the heard, seventy of which are
COWS. The young stock does not
seem to be affected. OF the seventy
cows examined twenty-five showed
reaction" in the tests, proving tuber
culosis. Twenty We're suspects" and
are probably the worst of all Twen
ty-five seemed to be free from the
disease. The tests were made by DR..
Barker Of Kansas City, chief cf the
bureau Of animal Industries Of that
city, and Drs. Niles and Dickinson, al
so of Kansas City. Their reports will
be sent to Washington for examina
ton, and nothing further will be dono
until orders have been received from
headquarters These cattle have been
gathered from here, there and every
where, and are of all kinds and breeds.
but all good stock The most valuable
cows are those that Superintendent
Peairs brought from the East. They
are Guernseys, and are the most deep
ly infected of any of the heard. 1t
is probable that all Of the infected
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Put Trains Back On.-Two addi-
tional passenger trains will be put on