The Chanute times., 1899-12-01
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

b free public library.
The farmers have not more than half
finished husking their corn.
The Melvern bank has been dyna-
United and its cash carried away.
Leavenworth high school girls are
organizing company of cadets.
II. S. Barr, mayor of White City,
Kas, died suddenly of heart disease.
Wellington gets more good shows
than any town in the state of its size.
The Rock Islands taxes in Shawnee
county, just paid, amounted to Ss,994.-
90.
The University of Colorado has chal-
ienged the Kansas State University to
a joint debate.
Near Clyde, Kansas, the young cattle
are dying off with something which
resembles black-leg.
A Silver Lake man is selling many
frogs to Topeka hotels. He gets 6o
cents dozen for them.
The Wichita Pump company Will
erect new building for their business
19Ox30O feet and probably two stories
high.
The stamp department of the inter-
nal revenue Office at Leavenworth dur
ing twelve days of this month received
S16,575. "a for stamps.
The name of the postoffice at Koch
ester, Kingman county, Kas., has been
changed to Zenda, and Eseoredore c.
Holcomb appointed postmaster.
Atchison has always been noted as
badly troubled by theatre gallery hood
lums. John Seaton, the owner of the
opera house has declared war against
these pests.
While national banks fail occasional
Nv with disastrous results, not a single
dollar has been lost to depositors in
Kansas state banks during the last
three years.
In Topeka the city federation OF
clubs, composed of ladies, are decora-
ting the rooms of the public schools
with pictures, and otherwise beautify-
ing them.
The Topeka city council has decided
to employ only union labor in the erec-
ton of the new city hall and auditori'
um, and to work the men only eight
hours day.
The comptroller OF the currency has
authorized the assessment of 100 per
cent on the capital stock of $4,000 of
the Atchison National bank of Atchi-
son, Kas., to be payable December A.
The corn crop in Brown county makes
from forty to eighty bushels to the
acre and many farmers have sold at 25
cents bushel Some state that the
corn has netted them $14 to the acre:
Judge Dale of the Sedgwick county
district court has sentenced a girl to
the Hutchinson reformatory. This is
the first, Judge Dale ruling that girls
can be admitted there the same'as boys.
County Treasurer Phillips of Shawnee
county has two gold pieces one of $40
and the other of S., coined in $780, be-
fore the gold of California was discov-
cred. He also has 'war greenback'
of the issue of 1868.
Joe Hall, hoisterman at the Ethel S.
mine in Cooper Hollow fell ninety feet
into the mine, striking the water. He
received only small wound in the
back of the head, and climbed the pump
back to the surface before the alarm
was given.
! On November 20 the engineer of the
Shawnee county court house had used
two tons of coal. Last year 20 tons
had been consumed at the same date.
One fifth of the worlds product OF
zinc is used to extract gold from South
African ores. The war has caused a
falling off of SIS to So ton at Galena,
Kansas.
John B. Carey, former mayor Of
Wichita and always a much esteemed
citizen, whose leaving the city some
years since was deeply regretted, is
dead.
State Superintendent of Insurance
W. v. Church denied the application OF
the tribe of Ben Hur, fraternal order
for license to do business in Kansas.
The postoffice department has re
pewed the lease of the present location
of the Pittsburg, Kas., postofiice foi
five years from January 10 at the pres
eht rental.
Sam Virgins, of Sheridan count.
was off to the hospital on election da,
having his leg amputated, but hi
friends elected him register of deed
Just the same.
Twenty-Five contractors out of Tope
ka have sent inquiries about the plan
for the new city building. which woul'