The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1900-06-01
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.
KANS.

from seneca last week.
Smoky Hill river has become dan
gerously swollen again.
Assess ocs' returns show population
of $500 at independence.
Seneca claims to have had no small
pox case since December, 80.
The association of registers Of deeds
of Kansas met in Wichita last week.
Lone Tree township, Mcpherson
county, produced Al babies last year.
A Masonic temple is to be erected at
Osawatomie to cost not less than $751;
600.
o. d. Barnes, of Oswego is in Jail for
giving mortgage on stock not his
own.
Kecl & Young, at Batesville lost
their hay barn and 700 tons OF hay by
fire.
OF 6s teachers who took examination
in Cherokee county only Is were given
certificates.
The G. A. r. reunion for that sena-
torial district will be held at Corning
in August.
Holton is receiving bouquets for its
happy handling of the G. A. r. en-
campment.
The Hessian fly seems to be damag-
ing the wheat in the north side of Nc
Pherson county.
1t is announced that the Rock Island
will run excursion trains to Geuda
Springs this summer.
Judge Hazen, of the Shawnee coun-
tv district court decides that the city
poll tax law is invalid.
Kansas University was beaten by
South Dakota University in athletic
contests at Sioux City, Ia.
The Lawrence World says Lawrence
has not yet recovered from the closing
of the wire mill by the trust.
Claude Saunders was drowned in Fall
river, near the town of Fall River,
while fording that stream.
The daughter of Rev. Wilkinson, OF
Marion, aged IL, died from the effects
of catfish barb in her hand.
The Ottawa Herald says that %
Franklin county school ma'ams are to
be married during the summer.
A st. Louis syndicate is taking oil
and gas leases in the sand-hill district
between Abilene and Solomon.
The Rock Island store room at Hor-
ton was entered -by~a.gang of burglars
and the police captured seven of them
and one got away.
Harry Brandleys trial at Emporia,
on change of venue from Chase county,
resulted in acquittal from the charge
of murder. He proved an alibi.
A picture attracting attention in
Paris is a landscape by Alonzo St.
George Huntington, young man who
was born in Leavenworth in 1868.
A Kansas branch of the Conference
of Charities and Correction has been
organized and Prof. F. w. Rlackman
of Kansas University, elected presi-
dent.
Athletic field day exercises occurred
In Beloit at which Joe Davidson, of
Glasco took first money in nine of the
contests and second money on three of
them.
The Topeka Industrial Institute
graduated its first class of eleven. May
%. The students and teachers, inclu-
ding Superintendent Stephens, are all
colored.
A Kansas City man is purchasing
residences in the outskirts of Wichita
for renting purposes.
Governor Stanley has refused the
application for pardon of Pool Grin
stead, the Wathena editor, who has
served lao of the 240 days in Jail for
libel.
Labor Commissioner Lee johnson
persuaded the Leavenworth planning
mill, which let out its men because
they belonged to union, to take them
back he showed the mill men the
state law.
The drummers for wholesale under
taking houses say that the death rate
IN Kansas is very low, compared with
former years.
Silverdale stone quarries are active
In putting in new machinery. The
quarry has s25, 900 ontract with the
state for stone for the Hutchinson re-
formatory.
Florence Robins, aged 10 years, was
caught by her foot in frog at
switching point in the electric railway
in LeavenwoLth, and had one leg cut
off and was otherwise injured.
The association of Kansas sheriffs
attended one of the meetings of the