The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-25
Mayor of Burr Oak Offers a Re-
ward for Liquor Convictions.
Carload of Osborneites Will Visit
Seattle Exposition.
NEW BANK FOR HOXIE
Osborne Co. Farmers Turn in
Mortgages for Taxation.
Train Load Shipment of Live
Stock From Hill City.

Stock From Hill City.
A reward of $50 has been placed in
the hands of Mayor Hawley, of Burr
Oak, for the arrest and conviction of
anybody in that town for selling any
form of alcoholic liquors that will in
toxicate.
Osbornites to the number of a car
load or more are figuring on visiting
the Pacific coast this summer, and will
take IN the Alaska-Yukon exposition at
Seattle.
A Trego county quarter section close
to Wa-Keeney. sold for $4,000 cash.
ana Irego is county wayout west,
where good crops are usually raised,
and the towns all growing some.
Sherman County Is Prosperous.
The population of Sherman county, as
returned by the 1909 statistical alb
stract, is 4.511. The population of Good
land, the county seat and a Rock Is
land division, is 2,074. During the year
there were lob births in the county re-
ported, rs deaths and "a marriages.
Despite the unfavorabIe crop condi-
lions for the last two years and the
financial furry year ago, says the
Goodland Republic, Sherman county
stu represents a prosperous house
hold, and will continue to increase in
of valuable information furnished by
the assessors are to the effect that
Sherman county has 247, 607 acres I'M
der fence, 110,031 acres not fenced, the
value of all farm buildings is $3.50, ITO
and the value of the farm imple-
ments is $68, 226 The Sherman county
cows and the women's helpful hens fur
n1Shed an income aggregating $64, 767. so.
Mrs. Anna B. Moorish. of Oberlin, was
elected associate grand matron of the
ack~ % 1,@sr- +s-,-r
in Hutchinson. She is a worthy lady,
and deserving this handsome recogni-
ton.
Frank Lockard. of Goodland, one of
the commission appointed by Governor
Stubs to select 1880 acres of Kansas
to the state as its final endowment for
the State Agricultural college, has con-
cluded his work and the commission
has made its report. OF this land,
the following is in the Sixth district:
Cheyenne county, 1,120 acres; Sherman
county, 207 acres; Rawlins county, 800
acres; Cove county, 800 acres. The
balance is in Greeley county, LIB
acres, and 1000 acres in Morton county.
Regarding the public lands in the
Sixth district unclaimed. the following
figures are about correct: 22,500 acres
in Cheyenne county; 1000 acres in Wal
lace county; about 5000 acres each in
the counties of Rawlins, Logan and
lTONt, Willie sherman ana
Thomas counties have a few rough 40s
and sos tracts and undesirable at that,
which Will aggregate about 1000 acres.
Large Increase in Personal Property.
The personal property increase in Os-
borne county over last year will reach
about 1 million dollars. This increase
it is said, comes mostly from mort
cages which have heretofore been COW
cred up. The population of the county
will show healthy gain of about 300
Osborne, Downs and Natoma are the
three big towns of the county, the lat
ter town winning third place over AL
ton.
In the old days of boom times Hoxie
had three banks. A few years later
the boom fell through. and for years
one bank has been doing the work. Now
Hoxie is going to get second bank,
with a capital of $25.00O The promo
tiers of the new State bank are S. Lar
rick, banker of Lenora. Congressman
w. A. Reeder A. L. Daugherty of Lo-
gan, who is interested in several banks,
J. E. Larrick, banker of Edmond, A.
Newman, formerly of Topeka, now
and others. The new bank will be a
strong one.
The friends of Chan. Perdue will be
glad to hear that the postoffice depart
ment has given him a deserved 1ayof.
He is assistant postmaster in the Be
lott office. Part of his layom will be
devoted to gardening, as he is making
a speciality of raising tomatoes. His idea
being new and novel, is worth a trial
He plants the seed in tin cans, and
daily irrigates them with enough water
to rust the cans. In this way he will
avoid the labor Of transplanting the
plants. The above will consume one
half of the time of his layoff. The.
balance of the time will be used Wis
iting old time friends in Gilbert and
Waconda Springs. -
Many Handsome Homes in Oberlin.
Oberlin is a city of handsome mod
ern houses. That is, there are num-
Der of residences in that town which
would be a credit in the older and
thickly settled east John P. o. Grady,
cashier of the Farmers National bank,
has let the contract for a $4,000 mod
ern house. It will be a. IL room resi-
dence, those on the first floor will be
oak finish. 1t will be heated with hot
air and lighted with electricity.
Mr.. O,Grady is one of the younger
crowd who has worked for Oberlin and
Decatur county. He is deserving this
lovely new home, and his friends will
wish that he and his pleasant family
will live many years to enjoy it.
1t pays to keep the sidewalks in re-
pair On account of defective side
walk the city of Oberlin had to pay
Miss Esther Stowen the sum of ST.
72225 for injuries sustained. And the
Oberlin papers say it is righteous YER
dict.
W. L. Howe, one of the progressive
business men of Alnena. who was the
originator of the Alfalfa carnival in
his town some years ago, is doing all in