Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 February 1901 — Odds and Ends. [ARTICLE]

Odds and Ends.

Rev. Charles M. Sheldon of Topeka is writing a new temperance story. Tobacco growers are making efforts to have the taxes on tobacco reduced. A large force of graders is now at work grading upon tho Santa Fe extension from Liberal, Kun., southwest across Beaver County. Robert Eidridge, a miner employed at Raymond, nenr Sedalia, Mo„ was instantly killed by a hoisting bucket falling down the shaft in which lie was working and striking'him on the head. It is stated ttiat on the extension of the Ilock Island road from Liberal, Kan., to El Faso, Texas, there will be a tangent 120 miles In length, which will probably be the largest piece of straight track in existence.