The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1899-09-15
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

cOttawa is considering the advisable
ity of building market house.
The Wichita ASSOCIATION of Congre-
gational churches and ministers held
it's semi-annual in Sedgwick Septem-
Der and 5.
The state superintendent Of public
instruction in Kansas actually had to
be taught how to carry his new baby
without dropping it.
The Twelfth Kansas infantry will
hold its annual reunion at Paola. Out
of the original ! 200 members OF the
regiment but 400 remain.
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 Scandal councilman recently sent
in his resignation and accompanied it
with check for SIS with which to pay
Vie tApeuStS VI an SiSClioh W Ill lhN
vacancy
State Fish Warden George W. Wiley,
says the prospects of his securing two
or three carloads of young fish from
the government hatchery for the Kan
sas streams are very fattering.
The Union Pacific claims 5000 acres
of the Fort Hays reservation on the
ground that the fort was located one
year after the railroad had fled its
charter in the general land office.
The board of regents of the State
Agricultural College has practically de-
cided to let E. R. Nichols. the temper
airy president of the college. run the in
stitution this coming school year
B. E. Kies has sold his interest in
The Commoner, at Wichita, and, it is
said will remove to Michigan. The
purchasers, who with Jerry Simpson
will continue the business are two
Wichita attorneys, Knightswanger
and Babb.
1t is claimed that B. D. Williams. the
banker of Highland. has established a
sewerage system which pollutes the
water and the people want the system
abolished. Williams refuses to abolish
it and the state board of health has
been appealed to.
Wichita Eagle: The amount of mort
cages released during August was
nearly twice the amount of mortgages
fled. The record kept by II. NJ. Du,
Bots, abstractor, shows that the
amount of mortgages filed was $40, 0s3.
while the amount of mortgage releases
was $50, 5SG61.
The people of Ottawa have erected,
at an expense of 81, 600, a stone gate.
way to Forest park as memorial tc
the officers and privates of Company
X, Twentieth Kansas. The gate has
seven large stone pillars and is by far
the finest thing of the kind in the
state. On one of the pillars will be
placed tablet defeating the gate to
the company.
Judge Hook, of the federal court at
Fort Scott, has issued an order re-
versing the ruling of C f. Cory, referee
in bankruptcy, iI the Angel Mat
thewson case and, generating Mr..
Matthewson of the charge of perjury,
as preferred by the referee in his re,
port TO the court. The recommenda,
tion of the referee that Mr.. Matthew
son be not discharged was overruled,
and he was granted a final discharge
in bankruptcy.
At present not enough coal is being
taken out of the penitentiary mines to
supply the state institutions and Chief
Clerk Barnes of the penitentiary says
that the state will have to buy coal
this year for the state institutions.
Mayor Ross of Wichita, has received
word that his letter to the war de-
partment concerning the Spanish can
non that has been given to Wichita
by Governor Stanley through the Sec
Rotary of war, has been received and
approved and that the cannon will be
shipped at once
Kansas broom corn crop is promis-
ing well while the crop of Illinois will
be only half of an average yield.
The Hiawatha World says that NJ.
A. Low pays a man named Keats 81, 500
a year to look after and drive his race
horses
Grant Hornaday, president of the
State Board of Charities, recently I'M
loaded 16 car loads of sheep at Fort
Scott, which had been brought from
western Colorado and Utah. He will
feed them on one of his farms near
Fort Scott.
II. I. Parsons, graduate of North
western University, has been elected
professor of oratory at Washburn Col