Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 95, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 July 1904 — Sparks from the Wires. [ARTICLE]

Sparks from the Wires.

The Seaboard Air Line is having ten locomotives built at the Baldwin works. What is known as the Santa Fe system embraces over nine thousand miles of track. A daily paper at Rapid City, S. D., is managed and edited by Mrs. Alice R. Gossage. Her husband is an invalid. Potato growers in the Kaw valley, in Kansas, will have only from a third to a half crop this year, owing to the excessive rains. The Comptroller of the Currency has authorized the First National Bank at Moline, Kan., to begin business, with a capital of $25,000. The Comptroller of the Currency has authorized the First National Bank of Plainville, Kan., to begin business with a capital of $50,000. F. Harwood, formerly assistant general freight agent of the Illinois Central at Evansville, has been appointed coal traffic manager for ths company at Chicago. The headquarters of William J. Leahy, assistant general passenger agent of ths Chicago, -Rock Island and Pacific, have been transferred from Chicago to St Louis. Immigration and industrial agents of Southwestern railroads look forward to a heavy movement of homeseekers toward Indian Territory and Texas -gup. ing the summer and autumn month*.