The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1900-04-06
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

pleted and at work.
Burning of brick begins at the peni-
Tertiary at Lansing on April l.
No new cases of smallpox have been
reported to the state board of health
for two or three weeks.
Several hundred men will be put to
work on April /, on Improvements of
Santa Fe tracks and bridges.
A private subscription is being raised
in Lawrence to buy the old Dutch
windmill and preserve it as IA relic.
Clarence Rarik, of Osborne county.
has passed the required examinations
and will enter West Point in June.
j. j. Finn, of Usage county, shipped
a lot of cattle that averaged l,554
pounds One of them brought Sl07.0
On Bachelor Creek in Greenwood
county crows are so numerous that
they attack fat hogs and dig holes in
their flesh.
According to the report of the state
University Geological Survey, the river
at Blue Rapids, at low water, is good
for $500 horse power.
Frank Garment, wealthy farmer
near Media, killed his wife with a neck
yoke. He owns several farms in Usage |
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Ten orators We're selected from
among the pupils of the Wichita high
school for commencement exercises and
seven of the ten are girls.
Frank Barnes, Rome Conley and A.
L. Kuntz, three Hutchinson boys, are
held for trial for burglary. They are
all under 10 years of age.
The six-year-old son of H. Miller, of
Caldwell, was flying kite and fell into
a well forty feet deep. He was res
cued with only broken leg.
Barton county raises two or three
million bushels of wheat every year.
Ellinwood one of the wheat oenters of
the county, wants to have a III in
operation.
More young men and women w Il be
sent from the schools to seminaries
and colleges from Kansas this year
than in any previous year in the his
tory of the state.
Lieut.. Commander c. e. Vreelands.
who was executive officer of Admiral
Dewey's flagship, is visiting his mother
in Burlngame. lie has served thirty
years in the navy.
1t is said that General Fred Funston
will ask for his discharge, because he
is tired of doing purely administrative
work, and now that fighting is over he
wants to come home.
b Officials of the Missouri Pacific have
examined the terminal properties of
the Hutchinson and Southern at Hutch
inson and it is intimated that they
closed purchase of them.
:
an extent in the upper valley of the
Solomon as to injure the range and
damage crops. Logan county has a
prairie dog town covering townships
81 can take twenty brood sows and
five old cows, said Dan Jones of Mound
Ridge to Editor Phillips of the Journal,
"and in five years buy the best quarter
section of land in Mcpherson county"
Cyrus K Holiday died at his home
in Topeka. March IS. He was the first
promoter, really the founder of the
Santa Fe railway and has been a di-
rector of that company from its or
ganization.
Residents of European countries eat
Kansas apples, Kansas beef and bread
made from Kansas flour; and the pol
ished walnut furniture in many of the
homes of the wealthy in the Old World
was made from walnut logs that got
their growth in Kansas.
The labor unions of Wichita have
declared boycott against the new
street railway on the alleged ground
that the company is employing labor
ers from outside the city, paying them
Sl.95 cents day while the union scale
is S1.5O.
The Chicago Times Herald says that
George L. Bradbury will assume on
May the place of president of the
Kansas City and Southern railway
He leaves the Lake Erie and Western
on that date.
Twenty-seven railroad pay checks
were cashed in a Fort Scott crap dive.
When the dive keeper turned them
into the bank list was made of the
parties to whom the checks were issued
and they were notified that if it is
found that they gamble again they
will be discharged.
A boy was playing with matches
at Frank Diffenberger's place near
Maize, and set fire to hay stack The