The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1898-09-23
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

southern Kansas.
The Santa Fe will erect a fine rock
depot at Eldorado
Some towns in western Kansas are
flooded with wheat.
A Chanute man has cut his summer
suit into bath towels.
Winfield thinks that large building
boom has struck that town.
Canton people have compelled the
jointists to beat hasty retreat.
Only ten private banks have failed
in this state during the past two years.
A Topeka man files a bankruptcy
suit saying he is ninety thousand dol
lars in debt.
Cowley county commissioners offer
standing reward of $50 for the arrest
of horse thieves.
County Superintendent Ruede says
Osborne county will be short OF home
grown teachers this fall.
Frank c. Bean, of Lyon county, has
returned from the Klondike. He says
he is glad to get back to civilization.
p A medicine outfit which is working
western Kansas is composed of an old
man, his wife, seven children and two
dogs.
There has been big lot of telephone
wire strung in Kansas this year and
the work is still going on in various
localities.
The postoffice at lola has been en-
larged. 1t had to be done in order
that its facilities might keep up with
the gait struck by the town.
Diamond Dick, the famous cowboy
who was killed at Ell Paso, Texat, last
week, once lived Abilene. He had
bushels of money in those days.
There is hot time going on in Os-
age county. The sheriff has nabbed
twenty-three persons charged with
violating the prohibitory law. Some
OF them are now in Jail while the bal
ance are out on bond.
H. D. Pratt, the Gaylord miller, has
patented force-feed wheat steamer
which milling experts say will take
the place of all devices of that kind
now in use. And of course if this is so
things will come Mr.. Pratt's way prop
er, after this.
Assistant Surgeon Louis G. Duncan,
Twenty-second Kansas infantry, W as
made happy Sept. Is by the receipt of
official information that the proceed
ings of the court-martial before which
he was recently tried in Virginia have
been set aside, and that he is restored
to duty.
Secretary Coburn of the state board
of agriculture has compiled figures
which show that the value of animals
slaughtered and sold for slaughter in
Kansas last year was SAC, 1913, SIT, gain
of $11, BAL 1899 over the previous year
che increase is 5000 per cent. The in
crease in value of poultry and eggs sold
is S249, 736, or :. 65 per cent.
The whole town of Plainville turned
out to fight prairie fire the other
dav. They worked with such vigor
that only one mans property was dam
aged, but as he lost sixteen stacks of
wheat and several of hay it will be a
long time before he forgets it. Here
is where nice broad fire guard would
have been invaluable.
A. NJ. Williams of Wakarusa, who
imaQines he has a claim of $780, 900
against the state of Kansas for having
detained him in an insane asylum, APP
peared at the state house recently bent
on fling his claim. He was sent from
one department to another, the people
at each telling him they could not file
his claim, but suggesting some other
department.
The Santa Fe management is en-
gagged in testing the big cylinder tan
dem engine just turned out of the To-
peka shops. This is the second engine
of that pattern in the United States.
The Northern Pacific has the only 9th
err one. 1t is built for heavy work in
the mountains. 1t was hitched to a
train weighing $50 tons and pulled it
fraru Wakarusa to Topeka up the big
grade at the rate of twenty miles an
hour. 1t pulled 800 tons over noun
tains on the mountain division the
first of the week and drew S45 tons
from La Junta to Trinidad, very hilly
road The engine so far has proven
very satisfactory. If it proves a sue
cess on the Ration division several 9TH
err engines of the same type will be
built.
A travelling grocery outfit recently
unloaded 81, 900 worth of goods on the
farmers of Osborne county. How sore
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