The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-06-11
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Barber county reports an increase of
$50 IN population since March 1st, 1896.
The new packing house of Wilke &
Co., of Leave nworth, has just been
completed.
The Third avenue school building at
Leavenworth will be remodeled at a
cost of about $4,000.
The assessors returns for Chanute
city place the population at 4,153,
gain of ala in one year.
A new establishment known as the
Security Bank, capital stock $25, 900,
has opened up in Wellington.
Alfalfa harvest broom factory and
Swimming station are bearing down
upon the unsuspecting town OF Cool
ldge.
A Cowley county young man who
was educated at public expense at the
state normal, where the teachers are
made, is learning the BARRIERS trade.
Overlook challenges any town of its
population to show more or better i'm
provements than are now under way.
Four good residences and the Farmers
State bank building will soon be COM
pleted.
A strong effort is being made to have
the salaries of the Fort Scott officers
reduced. Tie salaries now paid amount
to Ss,16O per year while the expenses
of the city are 10000 per year includ-
ing all items. The amount of reduc-
ton proposed will be over $1,000.
Dickinson county has made gain in
population the past year of s24, with
Liberty and Lyon townships to hear
from, which will bring it up to about
1000. The population of the county
is now close to 81, 900. Abilene is the
largest, with population of 1881 and
Herington next with $40.
Orlie H. Reid, publisher of the Critic
at Maize, Kansas, who was crippled
badly by disease early in life, is writ
ing and will publish his biography
He is living example of what true
grit and perseverance can do even in
the extreme of adversely. The ordin-
airy person crippled as he is would have
been an object of charity, but Mr..
Reid has earned his way at all times
by his own labor. He is deserving of
aid The price of his book is fifty cents
The Hutchinson Ladies' chorus is
contemplating trip to Salt Lake city,
to attend the musical concert which
takes place there the third week in
July. The idea is generally favored
by the ladies of the chorus and their
friends. A sum of $500 has already
been pledged toward paying the ex-
penses of the trip and there will be
little difficulty in getting as much
more. Mrs Bracken of Detroit has
consented to go with the ladies as di-
rector and they will probably give two
or tire concerts en- route.
A new automatic car coupling has
been devised and patented by Silas
Buck, who runs store at Shipton, in
Saline county. The principal features
of the device are lever and two
springs. The lever is at one corner of
the car and by pulling it down, an up
right spring is compressed and the
coupling pin lowered, allowing the
cars to separate. A horizontal spring
inside the bumper forces block in
above the coupling pin holding the
latter down. Then when the cars come
together again the coupling forces the
block back and the upright spring
sends the coupling pin quickly in
through the link or coupling
Sergeant Tom Carroll, Battery b.
Fourth artillery, Ft Riley, committed
suicide May eth by drinking carbolic
acid. The only cause suggested is de-
spOnueucy he hdu oS0h ullhh lhS
heavily of late.
The record of the Beloit creamery
was broken on June l. On that day it
received little over 100000 pounds of
milk from Beloit, Victor, Saltville,
Scottsville and Downs. Jensen Bros,
operators of the Beloit creamery and
the skimming stations named, made
1000 pounds of butter that day.
Galena has its eyes sot on a street
railway. An ordinance granting the
Southeast Kansas Electric Railway
company a franchise through Galena
was introduced in the city council re-
Gently and read for the first time.
City Assessor French's returns show
the population of Arkansas City to have
increased from 5,623 to 6,57s during
last year. The increase in population
is mainly due to the transfer of the
lAtchison, Topeka & Santa Fe and st.
Louis & San Francisco railroad crews
and shopmen to that town.
The whisky war at Indenendeuce