The Chanute times., 1900-03-09
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.
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few days for lack of coal.
The Kickapoo Indian school at Hoy
is to have a gas plant soon.
Ottawa is in the field as a candidat
for the next G. A. II. encampment.
A cattle dipping plant is to be estat
lished at Garden City. The cattle mel
are to do it.
The regimental band of the Twenty
third Kansas is forming a permanen
organization.
A cotton mill at Independence make
I,oOO pounds of twine day, employing
forty-fve people.
A. }. Titus says ears will be running
on the Denver, Oklahoma and Gulf out
of Kiowa by June first,
The mother of John ]. Ingalls, is said
to be still alive at the age of 100 years
Her home is in Boston.
Atchison has a Committee of Forty,
an organization designed to push the
business inter ests of the town.
In some of the western counties the
statement is made that English spar
rows are destroying fruit buds.
Sandy Calhoun, Twentieth Kansas
soldier, is charged with killing his
partner in their saloon at Yale.
Four extra railway mail clerks will
be delegated to take care of the Shell
don issues of the Topeka Capital.
A woman of Troy horsewhipped a
man for getting her husband drunk,
and paid fine of eleven dollars.
Something like seventy-tive Kansas
towns have organized improvement
societies during the past ninety days.
The Santa Fe has surveyors at work
finding a new route between Kinsley
and Great Bend, to escape the heavy
grades.
Julius Neuman, who preempted the
first 160 acres at the Lecompton land
office, is dead. He had lived hermit
life on his land.
Firemen Haley and Meadows both of
whom were killed with their engines on
the Rock Island. within six months of
each other, married sisters.
A great number of people attended
the twenty-second annual session of
the grand lodge l. o. L. w. in Topeka;
estimated as high as 1,5O0.
The cold weather crowded the peni-
tentiary mines to get out enough coal
for the state institutions. The weekly
shipments increased from 200 cars to
nearly 300.
The Middle and Oklahoma divisions
of the Santa Fe are consolidated. G.
r. Neubert, master mechanic of the
Oklahoma division, with his clerks,
moves to Newton.
John Collins diamond shirt stud and
his watch are still in the sheriff's pos
session at Topeka. Two negroes who
claim Collins gave the articles to them
and Collins family claim the jewelry
jim Brennan, who killed Sam Wood,
now resides near Kingfsher Okla.
and is prosperous citizen, He owns
a good farm and big herd of cattle,
and is said to be getting rich. He has
been sheriff of his county.
Beginning March II the Atchison
Champion proposes to run its daily issue
for one week as the Devil would run
it." 1t is to be under the exclusive |
management of w. p Campbell, with
DR.. G. r. Nunnalty as editor in chief !
An old man from Missouri, Ross by
name, killed himself at his home near
Moran He had recently bought a half
section farm.
John Musgrave, of Glen Elder, a |
delegate to the A. o, L, w. grand |
lodge is in the hospital with a broken
leg He fell on the ice.
Waverley people arrested a drummer
for liquor house. He was allowed to |
go into the hotel for breakfast when |
he lodged the constable and ran into
the country. A large crowd gave chase
but he got away.
]. r. Blayton, wealthy celery grow
er of Santa Anna, California, was trav-
cling east with his family, when he
became deranged and jumped from
car window. He was found at Ford |
City, twenty miles away, and it was a
difficult task to capture him.
The long distance telephone company
offered the Mutual company of Fort |
Scott $500 per share of stock which |
cost them 50, 800. With the offer is a |
guarantee that the mutual plant viii |
never be turned over to the Missouri |
and Kansas company.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Wright of Bar
Der county have been married fifty |
years, have raised eight children and |
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