The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1898-12-23
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

held their forty fourth reunion last
week.
The first day of the Sunny Slope cat
tie auction S34, 900 was ralied in by the
auctioneer
Lightning rod sharks victimized q
farmer near Hays City out of $500 last
week.
Six jack rabbits are selling for q
nickel in the county eat Of Lane
county.
Miss Lizzie e. Wooster, formerly a
teacher in the schools of Salina, is a
candidate for the position now held
by Annie L. Diggs in the state librar-
ian's Office
While the people all over the state
are staying awake even at night think
ing about the Collins murder case, one
of the jurors went to sleep in the box
last week.
Wellington has resumed it's effort to
secure an electric light plant. 1t had
one once, but the town went dark six
or seven years ago, and has been dark
ever since.
1t is going to be very difficult to
prove John Collins guilty, for it is diff
fcult always to get a jury to imprison
e., e. 81,
are merely suspicious.
Westmoreland is the only county
seat town in Kansas without railroad
and there is some talk of building one
from Wamego. The distance is TWEEN
miles and the roads bad
Many improvements are being made
Just at the present. Good substantial
sheds and shelters are being put up to
protect the stock from the coming win
ter. Generally, the stock is looking
well.
The supreme court of Kansas has
criticised the careless, slip-shod man
yer in which the journals of the state
are kept The court is said to be COR
rect regarding this very important
matter.
The most intelligent witness that
has appeared in the Collins murder
case so far is a girl of twilight COM
plexion named Kitty Smothers. The
ablest lawyer in the case couldn't rat
tie her.
During the recent blizzard farmer
of Barton county named Wise went
out to drive his stock, and he has not
been heard of since. 1t is feared by
his friends that he was lost and frozen
to death.
Pete Swensen reports 4 great devas-
tation among the swine in the neigh
borhood of Dwight with cholera. lie
says he has lost 100 head OF good hogs
and his neighbors have met with losses
more or less.
Chief of Police Mcfarland of Kansas
City, Kan, has instructed his men to
keep a close lookout for suspicious
characters and to prevent if possible
any visitation from those now being
ordered out of Kansas City, Mo.
George W. Rohr of Atchison county,
has returned from the Philippines,
where he served with the eighteenth
Infantry. In his case there is some
thing in name as he is roaring fear Z
fully about the condition Of the army {
put there.
improvements at the waterworlls
station at Salina are being
pushed rapidly with a view of com
oleting by January 1st Two 1OO-horsc
power boilers have been received. Sup
Bishop claims they are the S
pest boilers ever brought to Saliua. A i
lew feature in the construction is the '
seamless bottom, that is, the boilers a
ire made from two large horizontal {
heets of steel of 6O,OoO pounds tensile 7
strength. The horizontal seams are '
louble riveted above the fire iron.
There is sure to be fight in the
Kansas legislature for a new state
formal school this winter. Year af- t
er year the fight has come up and S
las been defeated by friends of the Il
PRESENT Emporia normal, aided by the L
BOARD CT regents, but this year the re- l.
-ents Of the normal in their biennial P
eport, have recommended the estab- Il
ishment of another normal school. t
md the board will go before the legis- C
ature, asking for it. Heretofore the n
egents have stood by Emporia, but \
his year they will maintain that as d
he normal is SO badly crowded, over p
200 being hived in one building, an Il
ther school is needed. Concordia and n
lotion are beginning to put up fight j
or the new institution. o
When Miss Babcock went on the
witness stand she vas closely watched a
" the reporters so closely watched, in a
act, that every motion of her eyes is \