Kansas Notes A Curio Room of Local Anecdotes
A collage of brief Kansas items from various towns notes resignations, editor changes, odd quotes, a Fourth of July plan in Linn County, sugar beets in Larkin, a Salina convention hall, and jokes about rail and river life. It mentions bank troubles, industry in Garden City, and the cottonwood tree crusade, plus stray quips about Mount Pelee and beehive politics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Russell Record
Coons
Canton
McPherson County
Winfield
Champaigne
Linn ‘County
La Cygne Jonn _Cannon
Larkin
Topeka
Mount Pelee
Kansas
Salina
Seville & Shaw
Tobey
Miss Carlson
Lindsborg News
Smith County
Garden City
Emporia Chautauqua
Howard
State Agricultural College
Manhattan
Frank Tyler
Emporia. Gazette
Hutchinson News
poriaGazette
Dodge City Globe- Republican
Leavenworth
Iola
Parsons
Olathe
Goodland
Lyon County
Enporia
Marquette Tribune
J. I. Mulligan
Seneca ‘Tribune
Franz Josef
Austria
Tom Anderson
Jewell County
Bunco
Old Mexico
Wichita
Kansas News Reports Fewer Delinquents This Year
Tax records show Kansas property owners paid or will pay 1901 levies totaling 13,996,303.36 dollars. Wyandotte and Shawnee counties top the list with over 700 thousand dollars each. Sedgwick and Leavenworth follow. City taxes in these counties reach into the hundreds of thousands.
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Kansas
Wyandotte
Shawnee
Sedgwick
Leavenworth
Allen Peewee
Anderson Suse Steer
Atchison
Ewer A
Barber Fop
Barton Bourbon
Brown Pree
Butler Pee
Chase So
Pete
Cherokee
Ed Clark
Clay
Cloud
Coffey
Douglas Hae
Linn
Logan Crewe
Lyon
Meade Eet
Rush Ee
Russell
Saline Wemees Peeeeetans
Bcott
Sherman Ee Tee
Anne
Smith Wanton Ea
Stafford
Stanton
Stevens
Wallace
Climber Restores Flag Raising by Fixing Pole Rope
H. H. Miller ascends a 110 foot steel flag pole at Hiawatha and threads a new rope through the pulley top. The previous rope broke nearly a year ago and prevented raising a flag.
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Hiawatha
Witnesses Caught In Dexter Herold Murder Case
Abilene authorities detain two boys claiming to be sons of G W Dexter from Armourdale. Kansas City police notified they will be subpoenaed as witnesses in the Dexter Herold murder trial set for next week. Dexter's hearing was delayed as the state sought the missing youths who fled Armourdale to avoid witness sanctions.
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Abilene
Dexter
Armourdale
Kansas City, Kan
Kan
G. W. Dexter
Henry Herold
E. A. Enright
Wyandotte County
Dexter-Herold
Will-Rush Wheat Cutting Dickinson County Harvest Ready
Dickinson county farmers expect rapid wheat cutting this week if weather holds after a week of rain delayed harvest. Many new machines bought, top lands heat damaged, bottom lands scorched, and overall yield projected around half of last year with steady work anticipated.
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Dickinson County
Wedding journey Afoot in wheelbarrow trek tale
Harry Adonis of Dowagiac Michigan plans to push a wheelbarrow to San Francisco by December 24 to win 500 dollars and marry en route. He will complete a part of the contract in Topeka where Miss Jewell Smith of Argentine has arrived from Kansas City and a marriage license is secured.
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Harry Adonis
Dowagiac
Mich
San Francisco
Topeka
Jewell Smith
Kansas City
Miners and Operators Fail To Reach Concession Pact
In Pittsburg the miners and operators conference on Saturday accomplished nothing. Neither side offered concessions. Miners show willingness to compromise but would likely oppose a general strike even if ordered by the national convention next month.
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Pittsburg
Rancher Greathouse Looks West for Grains and Land
D G Greathouse a Kansas ranch owner from near Syracuse at the Kansas City union depot shares his western Kansas opportunities. He recalls starting in 1886 with $200 now owning 5440 acres 400 horses 200 cows and 56 tons of broom corn ready for market He notes broom corn yields about a ton per three acres and prices around 80 per ton.
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D. G
Greathouse
Syracuse
Kan
Colorado
Union Depot
Kansas City
Kansas
Death of Prof Henry Worrall Pioneer Kansas exhibitor
Old-Time Kansas death notice reports Professor Henry Worrall dying at his Topeka home at 77. He led the Kansas exhibit at the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial World’s Fair and created the famed large landscape "Droughty, Kansas" from field products. A Liverpool native, he is remembered for his contributions to Kansas agriculture and display.
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Kansas
Henry Worrall
Topeka
Professor Worrall
Philadelphia
Liverpool
England
Kansas Frosts Hit Abilene With Record Low Noted
Abilene dispatch reports Friday night temperatures dropping to 34 degrees above zero with light frost in low areas. No damage reported as crops are well advanced, while damp, cold weather delays wheat ripening and harvest approaching quickly.
Philosophic Maunderings on Work and Uncertainty
A compact column muses on winning through forgetting money at the poolroom, work as a distraction, the chimney sweep’s blackness, Morgan not standing on the world, banking on uncertainty, and a general hesitating in battle. It questions conventions for ex convicts and marks.
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Atlas
Mr. Morgan
Freight wreck on Rock Island near Thomson injures many
A west bound Rock Island freight derails on a curve near Thomson at Hubbell station. About twenty cars plus engine and tender leave the track scattering merchandise. One tramp dies or is mortally injured and ten tramps are aboard with two bodies found. Conductor Alcott is lightly hurt as crews clear the line overnight.
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Rock Island Railroad
Thomson
Belleville
Alcott
Arbor Day Memorial seeks Morton statue in Nebraska City
The Arbor Day Memorial association calls for funds to erect a portrait statue of J Sterling Morton known as father of Arbor day. After Morton's death on April 27, supporters in Chicago and Nebraska City urged a monument in his memory with inscriptions. The Nebraska City site will house the memorial statue.
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Arbor Day Memorial Association
J. Sterling, Morton
Arbor Day
Chicago
Morton
Nebraska City
Death follows carousal Charles D Warner found dead
Charles D Warner son of Major William Warner United States district attorney and former grand commander of the G A R was found dead in a Kansas City rooming house Friday afternoon. Morphine bottles were on the dresser and he had been drinking. He had been dead for several hours. Warner aged twenty four leaves a widow and one child. He had been studying medicine.
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Charles D. Warner
William Warner
United States
The
Kansas City
Warner
Charles Warner
Rain Drenches Kansas Floods Reach Wichita
A heavy soaking rain spread from Wichita to the Missouri line over Thursday night and Friday, with nearly two inches of water at some points. Wheat loss and harvest delays reported as small streams flooded, and winds caused crop damage in several areas.
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Kansas
Wichita
Missouri Line
Topeka
Kan
Hereford to Surrender After Perjury Conviction
The Illinois supreme court sustained the circuit court in the case of E. I. Hereford a Peoria druggist found guilty of perjury. He appealed and now is believed to be en route from California to surrender, having aligned the perjury to obtain a divorce so he could marry Cora Strubel.
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Illinois Supreme Court
Circuit Court
E. I. Hereford
Peoria
California
Hereford
Cora Strubel
Fire in Levington Causes Large Losses
A serious blaze in Levington Illinois began Friday morning in the rear of M. W. Buckle’s dry goods store. Suspected mouse access to matches started the fire. The building and stock were burned with an estimated loss of 15,000 dollars. Sutter’s grocery and adjoining property were ruined, bringing total losses to about 20,000 dollars.
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Levington
Ill
M. W. Buckle
Sutter’s Grocery
Union Leaders Fired in Street Car Strike Threat
A street car strike threat looms in St Paul Minnesota after six union leaders were discharged for allegedly betraying preliminaries to the company. The workers demand reinstatement by Sunday or they will strike.
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St. Paul
Minn
Surrender total climbs to eighteen thousand five hundred in Cape Colony
Report from Calvinia Cape Colony records a Thursday surrender of seven hundred men, mostly rebels, raising the total surrenders in the war to eighteen thousand five hundred. The situation remains unsettled as Boer forces continue in the field.
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Trondon
Calvinia
Cape Colony
Cape
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Philosophic
Maunderings
Tramp
Rock Island Road
Alabastine School
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Grand Rapids, Mich
Defiance
Mfg. Co
Omaha, Neb
E ‘House
Libby
Blavor
McNeill & Libby
N. Y
Lincoln
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