The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1899-11-03
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

took home with them fifty ponies ant
large amount of calico.
Carlyle intends to go after gas. E
II. Funston is member of the company
that is pushing the matter
In the Labette County district court
there were during the first week, ter
convictions and pleas of guilty.
One firm in Muskogee last year paid
$1,1OO tribal tax for the privilege OF
doing business in the Creek nation.
The Exchange bank of Stockton has
gone into liquidation. The owner
claims that banking is not profitable.
Another new electric light company
is after franchise in Kansas City, Kan.
The promoters are James A. Blair and
James II. Frost.
Norton county is having a warm
campaign over the location of county
high school. Every town in the coun-
" is q canuluate.
Cawker City Ledger; "Twenty-one
months ago w. R. Oliver purchased a
SOW for Sl2 For the SOW and increase
he has realized $172.SO.
Fred Roberts of Wellington attends
college at Norman, o. T., where all his
expenses are paid in order to secure
his services on the foot ball team.
1t is said that a Kansas man who
used to make money operating a rock
quarry in this state went out to Colo
RADIO and went broke on gold mines.
Since the legislature established the
Irvine plant at the penitentiary the
price of hemp has gone up 100 per cent.
This is due to the war in the Philippines.
The shipping of cattle has commenced
in Washita county. The Rock Island
has been promised 200 carloads of cat
tie to be shipped over that line from
Mountain View The cattle are look
ing fine and will command top prices.
A Barber county farmer whose home
was totally destroyed by fire is now
scratching about in the ruins trying to
recover $3.50 in gold which he had
stuck away in the house. He has sue
ceeded in recovering portion of it, some
-, ,,;oooe ,e e,,,o1l &c che,
The Cherokees and Delawares are at
outs over the title which the Delawares
claim to their 100000 acres of well i'm
proved land The land is underlaid
with vast deposits of oil, gas and coal,
which fact is causing trouble, as the
Cherokees want the revenues from
leases.
The Kenton Cimarron News speaks
of the increased interest in the rich
copper leads in Beaver county. Men
with capital are testing the leads and
veins. The Carrico mining camp is
swarming. The camp is s5 miles from
Lamar, Col, and the building of a troll
lev line from Lamar is talked Of The
mines are IL or Is miles north of Ken
ton.
Annually in Kansas when the asses
sors of the various townships arrange
the basis of assessment there is roar !
Oh account of the glazing inconsistent
cies in the taxation scheme of the state |
A great stir is kicked up, and the de-
mand is made that this Great Evil be
remedied. Then the kicking dies away,
soon it is forgotten, and the old yell
sleeps for another year, to break out
with the same old vigor and the same
old result. Capital.
Elmdale has race problem. A |
teacher refuses to stay with her school
If colored girl is allowed to attend,
and patrons are threatening to boycott |
the institution. The board is trying |
to make peace.
The townsite appraising board at
Ardmore has discovered that the streets
were badly laid out and the surveyors
were compelled to run streets through
residence and business property. The
Episcopal church is squarely in the
middle of a street, and will have to be
moved.
The Territorial university has
greater number of students in its fresh
man class this year than it had in the
entire university last year. The phar-
macy school has trebled in number.
There is more green grass in the
Rock Island lawn in front of the Good
land depot than any other place on
their Kansas system. 1t is kept clean,
given plenty of water and has become
a pleasing sight to sight-seers on the
Rock Island. The grass is as green
now as it was any time during the
spring and summer.
There are 252 students in attendance
at the Oklahoma Agricultural and
Mechanical college. Every county in
the the territory, except two in the ex-
..o,,,a ,,-art ;e rarroee-,tad and students