The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1899-09-29
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

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The coal miners of Usage county have
had their earnings increased by an alt
vance OF 10 cents ton for mining.
The first annual runion of the Tween
ty-first Kansas volunteers VIII take
place at Kingman October 3 to 5.
At the Atchison corn carnival the
Rock Island provided for the street pa
rade an automobile, free of expense to
the city.
J.P. Pomeroy offered Mr., Waggener
S75, 900 for his interest in gold mine
at Victor, Colo, and Mr.. Waggener re-
fused the offer.
At a circus in Wichita Emma Lateau,
one of the trapcze performers slipped
and fell from rope and was picked up
unconscious. Outside of badly sprain"
ed wrist she was not hurt much.
Horton. Brown county, now city
claiming 4,00C people, being a division
station, with important shops, of the
Rock Island railroad. celebrated the
18th anniversary of its birth on Scptcm'
Der 20.
Three business houses has been to-
tally destroyed by fire at Stockston'
The postofice was considerably dam
aged. The origin Of the fire is un-
known. Loss, two thousand dollars
no insurance.
There is no county in the United
States of equal area and population
that produces annually as much food
for man and beast as Jewell county.
Moreover, no other spot on earth can
make such a showing.
This year Jewell county's crop will
aggregate IA, 5000 bushels, an amount
almost as large as the total crop of the
great state OF New York, more than
that of New Jersey and far more than
that of all the six New England states
combined.
We are more or less accustomed &c
surprises in pictorial journalism, but
the current issue of Golfers Weekly
shows something entirely out OF the
common. 1t contains remarkable pho
tographs, illustrating the trial trip OF
the new battleship Alabama. One OF
the pictures is stern view of the cruiser
Showing her heels" apparently taken
from the fighting top of the vessel, look
ing down upon the deck and the swir-
ing waters in her wake. The most in
teresting picture of all illustrates a
prominent feature of modern Journal
ism. 1t shows newspaper correspond
ents sending messages to their jour
nails by carrier pigeons thrown from
the bridge Of the ship while far out at
sea.
L. B. Gilmore, of Poala, has common
ced habeas corpus proceedings i'll the
supreme court for release from the
Miami county Jail. Gilmore entered
into a partnership with Mcbride &
Bloom, of Paola, in 1894, with the in
tention of prospecting for gas in South
ern Kansas. Gilmore sold out his
share in the company for $1,000 stock
in the new company, with the under
standing, it is said, that he was to re-
turn the stock when the debt had been
paid at the rate of $500 month. The
company paid the debt, but before it
was paid gas had been struck in pay
ing quantities, and Gilmore's stock had
increased in value until it was worth
worth $685. He sold it and was ar
rested for enlightenment.
The commissioners of Jewell county
will put in fourteen new steel bridges
in that county this fall.
Pittsburg is to have a new S35, OOO
city hall, the bonds having been voted.
The building will he one modern in
every particular.
Out in Norton county the commits
sioners have become so frightened
about the inroads of the Russian thistle
that they have ordered farmers to de.
stroy them-otherwise they will be dc.
stroyed by the authorities and the eX.
pense charged up to the land owners.
Dealers are offering $40 a ton for
broom corn, but the farmers are hold
ing out for 500. AS Kansas in reality
controls the market, it is probable that
the price will go to 500.
The Rock Island shops at Horton ex
pect to build 900 ears within a year
The force win be doubled in the store
house, saw mill and freight house. TIL,
lumber for that many new ears will re
quire 5000 sills, and as so sills make {
load, il will require 16O cars to ship II
the sills, to say nothing of the othei
lumber, trucks. castings, etc.
The Kansas colleges are said to b,
crowded.
The registration at the Kansas uni
versity has already passed the sOI