The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1899-04-14
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

To push along the convention hall
fund Fort Scott minister donates to
the finance committee all marriage
fees received.
P. G. Phelps, living in the neignbor-
hood of Irving, has 14o tons of broom
corn-something very few men in this
country hold-which he will soon put
on the market
Major Metcalf of the twentieth Kan
sas, has been wounded. Metcalf was
a good soldier in time of pace, and it
seems he is keeping up his reputation
in time of war;
A farmer in Barton county put out
some poisoned corn for the purpose of
killing prairie dogs. A pigeon ate
some of the doped stuff and died.
Then performing dog belonging to a
show devoured the pigeon and the
show is short dog valued at one hun
dred dollars.
Archie Hogg, a graduate of the
Marysville high school, class of 80,
afterwards a graduate of the state
university, and for some time private
secretary to the chancellor Of the uni
versity, has been appointed assistant
professor of philosophy and will teach
psychology and logic at the state uni
versity.
The state board of charities has
practically decided to make Mrs. Lew
is Hanback,, of Argentine, matron Of
the Topeka insane asylum. This place
pays $1,000 year. Mrs. Hanback, is
the widow of Lewis Hanback,, one of
the loyal Kansans identified with the
early settlement and development of
the state
Superintendent Church of the insur-
ance department has admitted to do
business in this state the Connecticut
Mutual Life Insurance company which
was barred from Kansas by Webb Nc
Nall because the company refused to
settle its part of the Hillmon claims.
The company paid 1855 fees and taxes
before being accorded license by the
department.
Many of the Kansas lads in writing
from Manila speak with feelings of
mingled shame, sorrow and disgust of
the California volunteer who deserted
and was killed on the field of battle
with lot of Filipino comrades of his
own choosing. His conduct is hard
for them to understand There will
be no stain of this kind on the record
of the boys of the Twentieth.
A special from Newton, Kansas, says:
A large amount of cotton is being
transferred in this city. 1t is shipped
here from southern Kansas, Oklahoma
and Texas, and is transferred here
into empty refrigerator cars and sent
to San Francisco, where it is loaded
on the steamers and shipped to Japan
During the past winter months 4S?
cars of cotton have been transferred
here.
A fine old pioneer woman died in
Sumner county the other day at the
age of SO, after living with her hus-
band just sixty-one years Her name
was Mary Peters Pennington. She
was the mother of fifteen children, of
whom fourteen lived to maturity and
en- now survive her. She leaves in
Kansas thirty-one grandchildren and
sixteen great grandchildren. In the
war of the rebellion her husband and
three sons carried Union muskets, and |
two of the sons were left dead upon
the battlefield.
A western Kansas paper says: Its |
a queer sight to see a man on one
quarter section of land putting in
spring crops and his neighbor across |
the way threshing his last years crop.
But then, queer sights may always be
seen in Kansas.
While the members of the Sumner ,
County Horsethief Detective associa-
ton were parading in Wellington a
stranger hired a team and buggy of a
liveryman, left town with the outfit,
and his whereabouts are now I'M
known.
Mad dogs have been stirring things
up in the northern part of the state.
This is a good time of the year to kill
dogs A dead dog planted in the hole
when tree is set will really do some
good in the world.
The Atchison Globe says that al
legged fatal errors have been found in |
the city court laws, which, it is said |
will make them valid. The word |
county is used where court" is in
tended, authorizing the governor to
appoint judge and a clerk of the
county" instead of the court"
just at the poclsetboolss of the plain
people arc recovering from the inroads
made by the sky-high price of eggs. |