The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1900-07-20
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.


calities report damage to the crop from
drouth.
Logan people have arranged for the
nucleus of library commencing with
500 volumes.
The convention hall fund that the
ladies of Parsons started has reached
5000 already.
A. O. Nelson, a Lincoln county farm
er, fell from the tower of his windmill
and was killed.
II. M. Wise, of Topeka, has been
sentenced to two years in prison for
taking 5000 from drunken man.
A man has offered Salina $500 for
the privilege of running a merry-go-
round during the street fair there.
The ottawa creamery, with its
Wellsville auxiliary, received $4,000
pounds of milk in one day recently.
John Critics, of Jewell county,
brought to town sheaf of oats five
feet tall with heads fourteen inches
long.
The long distance telephone lines
now open in every direction from
Wichita, prove of value to trade in
terests.
Douglas Walker was shot and killed
by his brother-in-law Albert Boyle at
Kingman, as the result of family
quarrel.
1t is said that Governor Leedy lost
years time and what capital he put
into zinc speculatiops in the Galena
district
Hon. E. G. Dewey's mother was
shopping in Moline one day last week.
Mother Dewey is quite active for one
80 years old.
State Superintendent Frank Nelson
during June, travelled 1900 miles and
addressed 40 audiences on educational
subjects.
An electric storm, accompanied by
wind, rain and hail, did 81, 900 worth
of damage to Clay Center windows.
Fruit and shade trees were left bare
There is 6O-acre field of wheat on
the federal prison farm at Leaven-
worth which is turning out 25 bushels
to the acre. The oat crop will run just
about double the wheat yield.
Governor Stanley has granted par
don to II. E. Mason, of Marion, the
banker who is IN prison charged with
wrecking his bank. This was done
upon the unanimous request of the peo-
pie of Marion.
prominent miller was asked: "Why |
will the Kansas farmer get good |
price for his wheat this year," BE
cause the Kansas farmer has the wheat |
and the other fellows haven't" was
the prompt reply
One hundred Firms, the advance
guard of an immigration which will be
immense, are headed for Sedgwicls
county, where it is proposed by New
York gentlemen, who have them in
charge, to locate each of them.
At the Armour packing plantin Kan
sas City, Kan, 1900 pounds of ammo
mia escaped from bursted pipes. Mary
women were at work in the building
all of whom were affected; some of
them so badly as to make it necessary
to send them home in carriages.
The county superintendent of Nor
ton county has sent out a circular let
ter Offering $50 month for thirty
teachers for six months term. 1t |
appears that young people can do
better than that in other occupations
The state labor commissioner re-
ports that the strikes in Kansas during
1899 deprived the worl1men of 44,sG9
days work.
j. L. Gilbert, who says his home is in
Topeka, and that he belonged to the
biAu 10 dllColCb
for dozen burglaries in Salina, all
done in one night
Mrs. Fred Leseberg, of Marshall
county, arose in the night and laid her
neck across a railroad rail and her
head was cut off. When found the old
family dog was guarding the head.
The deed to the farm which was re-
Gently sold in Cowley county, required
S37 in revenue stamps.
At the long distance telephone recep-
ton given by the Missouri and Kansas
Telephone company in the Carey hotel,
Wichita, people were called and con-
versed with in st. Louis, Mo-, Joplin,
No, Kansas City, Mo-, lola, Kan,
Omaha, Lawrence; st. Joseph, Chicago,
Lincoln, Neb., Springfield Topeka,
Milwaukee, Detroit, Toledo, Cleveland,
Davenport and many other places dur
ing the afternoon and evening.
A Seneca man whipped his wife and