The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1899-12-29
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

ana election, both important.
The seventeenth annual meeting @
the county clerks of Kansas will b
held at Wichita, December 2s and 20.
The Hutchinson and Southern brancl
trains will use Wichita branch mali
track between railroad junction cas-
and west of Kingman.
o. E. Pritchett, a brakeman on thu
Rock Island road, was RUIZ over at Man
kato, and had both legs cut off. HI
died a few hours afterward.
George W. Martin now secretary Of the
Kansas Historical society, has the best
private collection of Kansas books and
pamphlets in existence.
The A. O. U w. lodge at Wamego
together with others who are not mem
bers, harvested and cared for 40 acres
of crops for a sick brother.
Merchants of Maple Hill have signed
an agreement which provides that
they will not sell any goods on Sunday
nor allow their clerks to do so.
The Kansas Retail Grocers and Gen
eral Merchandise association will ask
the Legislature to pass more effective
laws for the collection of debts.
There is no spot on EARTH so far as
+hnt rnnHc pnnD1
to those in the grea, valley of the Ar
kansas in southwestern Kansas.
The auctioneers of Kansas have or
ganized state association with the
view of securing Legislation requiring
auctioneers to have state license.
Colonel Alexander Warner has closed
his Kansas career by selling his home
place at Baxter Springs. He will re-
turn to his old home in Connecticut.
1t has been decided that when cattle
pass through this state bound for re-
mote points they cannot be examined
as it is interfering with interstate COM
merce.
Henry Shindler of Leavenworth has
been appointed assistant inspector gen
eral of the territory west of the Missis-
sippi river for the Army and Navy
Union.
The Missouri Pacific has a special
train equipped for building telegraph
lines. The company is rebuilding all
its old lines and wanted to do the work
in hurry.
newsboy on a katy" train cheated
a passenger few days ago A special
officer of the road happened to be on
the train and at the next station the
newsboy was put off.
A jury in the Shawnee county dis
trict court decided that the Master
Plumbers Association of Kansas was
trust. p. P. Elder, of ottawa, is Sec
rotary of the trust.
Information has been received by
the Santa Fe officials that from present
appearances next years shipments of
of livestock all along the system would
be larger than it has ever been.
The air shaft to the penitentiary
coal mine has been repaired and the
mine is again in operation with ca
pacity of twenty cars a week. This is
not sufficient to keep the state institu-
tions in coal.
State Treasurer Frank E. Grimes has
issued statement calling in all out
standing state warrants marked mot
paid for want of funds There are
about $500, 900 worth of these and they
will all be paid off January 10.
Calves in considerable numbers are
bought at Kansas City stock yards and
sent to ranches of cattlemen in Kansas
and Oklahoma.
The Kansas Experiment station dis
courages the establishment of beet
sugar factories in Kansas, believing
that Kansas is better adapted to other
products.
A man entered a store at lola and
asked the boy for cackleberries. The
boy had never heard of them before,
but he thought a while and then gave
the man eggs
The beautiful souvenir cover issued
by the Atchison Globe for the Corn
Carnival was taken from painting and
which is said to have been the art of
Wichita man. Whoever did it, it is the
best study in corn ever made in Kan
sas.
Mulvane is represented to be getting
to be quite business center. The peo-
pie there are quietly working to get
the Santa Fe to locate machine shops
there. Their hopes are based on the
fact that the Santa Fe has tracks leav-
ing there in five different directions.
Warden Tomlinson, of the state peni-
tertiary, has made arrangements to
start the binding Irvine plant this week.
1t is the intention of the directors of
the penitentiary to keep the plant 60
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