The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1899-11-10
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Wholesale thieving is reported at
Pittsburg.
Lebanon, Smith county, is celebrating
the completion of new opera house.
Dickinson county is putting fur
mace and other improvements into the
poor farm residence.
The Seventh district federation of
woman's clubs will meet in Wellington
November 8, 0 and 10.
An bingham grain dealer who has
an order in for As freight cars purchased
10000 bushels of corn to fill it.
Usage county coal mine operators
have agreed to advance Usage county
coal at the mines % cents ton.
There is violin maker at Marquette,
Kansas, who will exhibit some of his
instruments at the Paris exposition.
man in cart drawn by six dogs
recently passed through western Kan
sas. He was bound for the Klondike.
Seventy-two cars of cattle were I'M
loaded at Phillipsburg in week. The
cattle are feeders, to be prepared for
market in that vicinity.
A solid train of 43 cars of steel rails
recently passed west over the Santa
Fe. The rails amount to 1000 tons
and are bound for Manila.
A number of miners from the Pitts
burg district will go to Colorado and
New Mexico. The mine operators there
offer so to 90 cents per ton.
In digging well northeast of Beau
mont some time ago, mineral that re-
sembles zine ore was discovered in such
quantities that company has been Or
ganized to see what it is and to work
it.
J. j. Whitman of Lyon county won
prize of 500 for furnishing the Mary
land state experiment station with the
best strawberry plants. There were
6S competitors from all over the United
States.
Twenty-Five tourist sleepers, two
standard slecpers and four baggage
cars made up the equipment of the
three trains bearing the Twentieth
Kansas soldiers from San Francisco to
Topeka.
Lon Gill killed an Eagle near Mus
cotah which measured feet 10 inches
from tip to tip and weighed II pounds.
Atchison milliners would have paid $40
for it's feathers, but the bird was
mounted.
The Santa Fe has adopted a new
clock dial to be put on station clocks
The minute marks are all plainly num-
bered from to GO. The change is ex-
pected to be a safeguard against mis-
readings
Jewell Republican: Robert and Will
Postlethwaite raised $500 crop on their
farm near Formosa this year, and have
Just been offered $4,000 for the place
without the crop. They gave 81, 600 for
it two years ago.
According to the report of F. L.
Brown, clerk of the United States dis
trict court, there have been 325 bank
ruptcy cases fled in the federal court
for the Kansas district since the pass
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Atchison Globe: The B. & M. Com
pany wants fifty men to work on its
track, in the vicinity of Dawson, but
cannot get them. Men will be paid
$3.50 per day. Still, the town is full
of men who say they cannot get work.
Five East Atchison men agreed to go,
but everyone of them backed out be-
fore train time.
The creamery north of Woodline is a
dead loss by fire, for which tramps are
thought to be responsible. The loss is
heavy, with only $500 insurance.
Lieutenant Haisch of the Twentieth
Kansas and superintendent of the Ma
Mia and Dagupan railway is now a
first lieutenant in the Thirty-sixth in
fantry. Congratulations Manila Free
dom.
Upwards of 5000, 900 will be spent on
public buildings in Topeka next sum-
mer. There is the auditorium and the
extension to the federal building.
Butler county commissioners make
an effort to build from three to five
substantial stone arch bridges every
year.
Miss Ethel Tucker of Ottawa is now
in San Francisco awaiting ST Gamer to
take her to Manila, where she will
marry Sergeant Irwin V. Todd, troop
A, Eleventh cavalry.
Probate Judge Allen of Beloit, regis
tiers kick because Mitchell county
boys go to some other county for their
marriage licenses. He wants them to
support home industries.
Charles f. Lobdell of Lane county