The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-11-26
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREoT.

The county high school proposition
was defeated in Pratt county.
Parsons expects to burn natural gas
piped from Neodesha by Thanksgiving
day.
A man named Vaughn has been ar
rested and taken to Pawnee for horse
stealing.
Hutchinson salt will be produced by
new method and new machinery
hereafter
Two short term prisoners escaped
from the federal prison at Leaven-
worth last week.
Fairview's claim of three churches,
good school facilities and no dives or
joints entities it to clear bill of health.
Coal has been discovered near Cot
tonwood Falls 1t is twelve-inch
vein and is but four feet beneath the
surface.
The Solar Salt works at Solomon
have closed for the season. About 500
tons of salt have been made during the
past year.
Gas is piped into Ottawa from Allen
county, where there are several places
where gas escapes from the ground, so
they say.
The managers of tho Beloit lecture
association have requested that the
ladies remove their hats during the
progress of the entertainments.
A hideous looking man, with face
masked in white beard frightened
some hotel people almost to death at
Frederick the other evening and then
silently stole away.
George Case of Jewell county, form
erly warden of the penitentiary, has
called on Senntor Baker for the pur-
pose of demonstra ting how nicely he
would fit the position of warden of the
federal pen.
In the Office of the county clerk of
Washington county there is sample
of specie of Mexican corn, raised on
the farm of w. A. Hoffhine, Of Wash
ington county, the stalk of which
measures Is feet and inches in
heighth, and 81 inches around, con-
tanning two well developed ears of
corn. 1t is the tallest corn ever grown
in this county, but Mr. Hoffhine don't
think it can ever be grown successful
ly here. 1t is great curiosity to many
Kansans
Coffeyville and vicinity have been
very much annoyed for some time past
by the opertions of chicken thieves,
who have been ralding the coops with
comparative immunity. A few nights
ago at a Germans farm house one of
the gentry managed to drop his peck
etbook. The German picked it up by
the hen house the next morning and
on opening it, found that it contained
S72, but nothing by which the owner
could be found, and the pocketboolk
has not yet been called for.
Fred Arnold, of the Alton Empire,
was elected register of deeds of Osborne
county. George Ruede, former edi-
tor, is now the county superintendent
there. II. NJ. Fletcher former own
or and proprietor of the sheet was
recently appointed to the railway mail
service. Count Fred Hulanisli, who
was in charge in the early days, was
last year elected probate judge of some
county out in Colorado Another edi-
tor of the Empire, when last heard of
was handicapped in his efforts to get
along in the world by bad ease of
the Jim jams.
In southern Kansas on many trains
there are as many baggage cars as
passenger coaches. The extra bag
gage cars are needed to carry CONNER
eial mems trunks
A syndicate of eastern manufacture
ers has an expert examining the gas
fields of southern Kansas with view
of locating factories If is proves in
viting, which it no doubt will, south
ern Kansas will witness boom that
has never before been recorded in the
history of the state. And it will be a
boom to stay.
The United Presby terrain church at
Anthony, a $500 structure, is being
torn down and taken 16 miles to Free
port, where it will be rebuilt for use by
the Methodist church. The United
Presbyterian church has dissolved its
organization.
Corn husking is in full blast 10 south
ern and central Kansas. Many of the
farmers are apparently surprised at the
way the crop is turning out this year
Along the bottoms the corn is reported
to be good and far better than was
expected.
Neodesha is having big fight over
the proposition: Shall the town own
her own gas and waterworks?