The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1899-12-08
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

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Fourteen of the boys of company H
the Lawrence company-are yet in the
Philippines.
Wheat in Dickinson county is report
ed in fine condition, completely Gov
ering the ground.
Kansas farmers who come into town
nowadays tell very good stories con-
corning the wheat.
The monthly payroll of the Santa Fe
at Ottawa lacks but little OF reach
ing the SIS, 900 mark.
The Santa Fe railway pays about
sec, 1000 taxes on it's Shawnee county
property every year.
The Mccormick Harvester Company
has bought ground and will build a big
warehouse in Wichita.
Hiram Stevens, an old-time district
Judge in this state, died at the age OF
70 in Kansas City last week.
There are only two families in John
son City, the county clerk, who is post
master, and county treasurer.
Henry Van Lewen is called the
cheese king of Atchison county. He
has number of cheese factories.
Colonel Edward C. Little of Abilene
and Miss Edna Steele were married in
the chapel of Bethany College, Topeka.
Judge Isaac Monet died in Washing
ton recently. He was once county
commissioner and once probate judge
in Sumner county.
Baldwin has had fire which de-
stroyed all the frame business buildings
in the town. Loss about $4,000; in
surance not over IS, 900.
One year ago thirteen grandmothers
sat at a table in Galena, and the other
day the same thirteen joined again
around the festal board.
Sims Ely, well known in western
Kansas and Oklahoma, is now connect
ed with an irrigation and reservoir
company at Phoenix, Arizona.
A new Presbyterian church is being
erected near Donegal, in Dickinson
county. The Germans are building a
church in the southern part of the
county.
Special Agent Lynn of the postoffice
department has concluded the location
of a rural free mail delivery route, run
ming west from Lawrence. The route
will supply $50 families.
Judge Williams has decided that cor
porations organized outside of the
state need not report their business to
the secretary of state The law applies
only to Kansas companies.
Kansas cattlemen will get together
to devise ways and means of opposing
the action of the railroads in putting
in the system of charging by the hun
dred pounds instead of by the carload.
Mrs. Charles Lusk, of Caldwell, is
instituting suit for S1O,o 900 damages
against the city of Caldwell and the
owner of a saloon for causing the
death of her husband from alcoholism
The financial condition of all the
western part of Kansas is improving
rapidly. The cause is cattle and alfalfa.
Also the large crop of broom corn,
which brings S110 per ton in Syracuse.
The Arkansas valley is almost one
solid field of alfalfa; some of the farm
ers have as much as five hundred acres
in one field. Thomas Ford of Hamil-
ton county. has 500 acres in alfalfa and
and a large number of cattle.
Galena city's council has decided to
ask all merchants except druggists,
meat market men and bakers, to close
their places of business Sunday noon
The new I. o. O. f. hall at Delphos
is one of the finest. The building is
owned by the lodge, which rents the
lower story for $500 year The hall
is 36x1O5 feet.
The 2-year-old boy of James Hayes,
who was travelling in a wagon from
Watson, Mo-, to Coal Gate, l. T., was
killed near Wichita, Kas., by the acct
dental discharge of a shotgun.
The towns of Jewell county are now
all connected by telephone and expect
to be soon connected with the outside
world.
General Agent Chaplin of the Santa
Fe is preparing an exhibit of Kansa:
agricultural products for the Paris ex
hibition next year.
Rural free delivery service will be es
tablished at Marysville, Marshall coun
ty, Kas., on December /. with one car
ricr: length of route 95 miles; area GOV
cred, % square miles; population to b,
served, 200.
DR. Swensson, president of Bethany
college. at Lindsborg, received as 1
donation to the college, 800 acres o
land near Herington in Morris county