The Chanute times., 1899-09-22
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.


25-26.
Atchison has brewery which has
been running night and day for thirty
years.
Republic county is to have. corn
Jubilee at Belleville the first week ID
October.
The whistle of nail factory will
sound before long at Lawrence, 1t Is
promised.
Beloit has four veterans of the MeXl-
can war. They hold reunions every
little while.
) There has been considerable talk
about cellulose factories for Kansas, but
none has appeared yet.
y The Friends University at Wichita
has opened its second year with three
times the number of students 1t had
last year.
The bonded Indebtedness of the ELS
worth county school districts has been
reduced in the past four years from S4s,-
ego to Ss,7O0
The book of Kansas biography which
Hill P. Wilson and Frank c. Montgom-
cry are getting mp will be published
about January /.
Central and northern Kansas is be
coming a net work of telephone wires.
Almost every town has its exchange
and is connected with all the surround
ing towns
The board of regents of the State
Agricultural College has practically de-
cided to let E. r. Nichols, the tempor-
d, ary president of the college, run the in
stitution this coming school year.
Jacob Fl. Close of Phillipsburg has
discovered what he believes to be a
rich deposit of fire clay and emery
near that place and is making scien-
tific investigation concerning the min
.eral.
1t is claimed that i. Williams. the
banker of Highland, has established a
sewerage system which pollutes the
water and the people want the system
abolished. Williamsrrefuses TO abolish
it and the state board Of health has
been appealed to.
The Twenty-frst Kansas regiment
will probably invest in a tablet bearing
the names of the dead of the regiment
and place it in the state house. The
regiment has 5000 left of the funds con-
tributed by the people of Kansas for
the sick of the regiment, and this mon
ey will probably be used for the tab
let.
The returns of assessors to the Kan
sas board of agriculture show the acre
age of kaffir corn to be 47,152 acres. OF
about per cent greater than last year
Milo maize and Jerusalem corn, non
saccharine sorghums near kin to lliffil
corn and of no mean value, have for
four years past steadily declined in
acreage, the former about one-half and
the latter from 80, 900 to 3,715 acres.
c. w. Southwark is a heavy sheer
feeder. He will feed 10000 head this
year near Derby. During the six
months when feeding will be in pro
gress he expects to use the immense to-
tai of between 10000 and 10000 bush
els of Sedgwicl1 county corn. In addi-
ton he will feed fully 500 tons of hay
kaffir corn and sorghum in fattenine
his sheep. In March he will market
them at Kansas City and Chicago.
The commissioners of Jewell county
will put in fourteen new steel bridges
in that county this fall.
A Scandia councilman recently sent
in his resignation and accompanied ii
with check for SIS with which to pay
the expenses of an election to fill the
vacancy.
When the Boyd cadets of Topeka re-
turned from the Philadelphia encamp-
ment, they were met at the Rock Island
depot by 1900 people and escorted TO
Lincoln post hall, where a reception
was held.
In 1876 Judge c. w. Smith of Stock.
ton graduated from the State Univer
sity. Last week he was at Lawrence
arranging for the admission of his
son.
A. L. Bell of st. Marys has been ap
pointed teacher at the Hockbury In.
dian school, in Arizona.
Twelve counties produced one-third
of all the beef cattle in the state last
year. They were Butler, Chase, Green
wood, Jewell, Lyon, Marshall, Nema-
ha, Usage, ottawa, Pottawatomie, Wa
baunsee and Washington.
Superintendent Williams of the Kan
sas institute for the education of the
blind, with a corps of mechanics, has
been at work for month making re-
pairs to the institute. The grounds
and buildings have been put in first
class condition. The sanitary condi-