The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1899-12-29

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The Shawnee county treasury ne
ceived taxes during December, prior +
the limit date, the Goth, about $500, O0C
There is movement in Kansas ant
Oklahoma to erect monument to Ed
The new electric road from Leaven
worth to Kansas City will be opened
for traffic January /, after repeated de
lays
There are $4,000 sheep on one rancl
in Pottawotamie county. Twenty-foul
men are employed at SEQ month ant
board.
A Farmers Institute has just closed
at Wellesville. 1t was the seventh an
nual meeting there and was well at
tended.
The "Twentieth" reception and en-
tertainment committee of Topeka, quit
the game with over twenty-six hun
dred dollars.
Chester I. Long, of the Seventh dis
trict of Kansas, has been appointed as
a member of the committee on ways
and means.
Money order records at the Topeka
postoffice were broken when 100 were
issued in a single day last week, aggre'
eating $1,000.
1t is reported by Mr.. Barnes of the
Horticultural society that Kansas
raises S2O,OOO,OOO worth of fruit every
year, on an average.
Senator Baker is chairman of the
committee on civil service; is third on
Indian affairs; is on invalid pensions;
District of Columbia and on the five
civilized tribes.
The designation of the National
Bank of Commerce of Wichita as a gov
eminent revenue depository became
officially in force by the completion of
the bond required.
Last winter the state teachers asso-
citation was crowded out of the state
house by the special session of the legis-
lature. This year it has both repre-
sentative hall and the senate chamber
Since July /, the Kansas Agricultural
college has taken part in 112 farmers
institutes in different parts of the state,
and arrangements for 10 additional
institutes have already been perfected.
The Topeka Wooden Mill company
received the contract for supplying the
charitable institutions of the state
with blankets, cassimeres and wooden
fannels at the meeting of the state
board of charities.
The Santa Fe has instituted new
train from Wichita to Kansas City. 1t
leaves on the arrival of the Oklahoma
train at $50 p. m, carrying through
passengers from that train. 1t will
have but little local work and can make
fast time. The Oklahoma train follows
and does the local work.
"A creamery at Beloit has sub-stations
at Scottsville, Norway, Asherville,
Green Mound, Saltville, Sunfower,
Blue Hill, Victor, Denmark, Glen Elder,
MAYHEM, Downs, Ports, Speed, Os-
borne and Stockton. The yearly capac.
ity is million pounds of butter and
so, 900 poi nd of cheese.
Colonel John Pearson, who was the
first superintendent of the Alchison
Orphans home, died in Germantown,
o., last week. He won distinction as
as an officer of the Tenth Michigan dur.
ing the war He left Kansas some
years ago to reside with his daughter
in Ohio, and had reached the age of 81
years.
Miss Lizzie Wooster, of Topeka, has
received word from the department of
Indian affairs at Washington that her
primary educational works entitled
Wooster Reading Chart" and "Read-
ing Box and Primer" have been listed
for use in the Indian schools of the
United States.
The gold medal given by Victor Hugo
and other French Republicans to the
widow of John Brown is in the museum
of the Kansas State Historical society.
With it is the original letter of trans
mission in Hugo's handwriting.
Rev. Walter Clarke, rector of St.
Johns Episcopal church at Abilene for
several years, has received a call to be
canon in the cathedral of Spokane,
Wash, and leaves this week. He will
also teach classics in the college of
Spokane.
1t is estimated by Governor Stanley
that at least 500, 900 can be saved an
nually by the adjustment of useless
offices and he is likely to advocate a re-
vision of the laws for the purpose of
accomplishing that result, in his mes
sage to the next legislature.
Governor Stanley went to Washing
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