The Chanute times., 1900-03-09


fourth floor of the capitol.
t L. f. Billeter, of Sterling, has mad
over 100, 900 barrels for salt.
Stafford, with 500 people, is tallxin
about an electric light plant.
The Kingman soap factory has diff
Guilty in finding soap material
Money orders from the Philippine
reach Kansas postotiices quite often.
Sumner county proposes to try
grand jury to get rid of its jointists.
An Edwards county farmer sold thir
teen horses to a Kansas City firm TO
81, 300.
Pittsburg has captured a factory fol
the manufacture of gas and gasoline
engines.
Wichita has let large contracts fol-
the extension of the sewer system OF
the city
FL Dorado is to vote on the PROPOSE
ton to build $4,000 high school,
building.
Wamego has about 1000 people. Its
two banks report S322, 466.O3 on de-
posit
Demand for farm land is larger than
for many years; especially in Western
counties.
The largest farm in Kansas is said to
belong to j. w. Robinson, of Eldorado.
He has 10, 500 acres under cultivation.
Blue Rapids has new mill and ele-
vator. built on the site of the one that
burned. 1t is just now being finished.
The voters of Topeka will have
chance at the spring city election to
vote $50, 600 of bonds for park improv-
ments.
The mean temperature of February
at Kansas university, was seven de-
grees below the average of the record
of the past.
Judge Guthrie who has been in To-
peka for nearly forty years says that
the recent snow was the heaviest he
ever saw in the state.
Judge Hook has ordered the sale at
auction of the Kansas and Missouri
bridge, at Leavenworth, in default OF
payments due on bonds.
The Commercial Travellers of Kansas
meet in Atchison in May and the local
lodge at Atchison has been allowed
$500 for entertainment.
Some one has made off with a 49,
cornet belonging to the Clay Center
Presbyterian church. The local G. A.
+. post also reports the loss of three
drums--two snare, and bass.
The seventy-ive insurance companies
doing business in Kansas report col
lected in 1899, 81, 1923, .O05 in premiums,
and the amount of losses paid out ST.
OOs,42s. Most of the companies show
a loss in the years business.
Ben Mclean and w. B. Throckmor-
ton, of Wichita, have organized the
Valley Pine Lumber company with
headquarters at Greenville, Ark, and
have put in big planning mill there.
The capacity of the mill is 100, 200 feet
day.
Kansas University has about fifty
more accredited schools than has Mis-
souri, university. Chancellor Snow has
received since the first of the year no.
tices of quite number of high schools
that have conformed to the require.
ments.
There is a sport in Jail in Seneca, for
having several saddles, laprobes and
whips which had been missed at Viii
ting
New chair cars have been placed in
daily service, on Santa Fe trains No.
and s, running between Kansas City
and San Antonio, Texas.
Harper county claims 81, 700 from the
state on an alleged erroneous assess
ment. Roy Ritchie of the treasurer's
Office and Dick Sanders of the auditors
Office are in Harper county checking
up the account.
In the Shawnee county court house
there are fifty radiators and number
of CRATES. When the weather is cold
it requires two tons of coal day to
keep up heat.
Kansas has s07 newspapers. OF these
81 are dailies, 610 weeklies, 3 semi
weeklies, 1O3 monthlies, l2 semi-month-
lies, bi-monthly, 10 quarterlies and
occasionals. Shawnee county leads
with 40. Sedgwiclx comes second with
%, and Labette third with 81. Wyan-
dotte, the most populous in the state,
has only Is.
Lawrence has contracted for a new
twelve room school building. 1t is to
be of stone and the estimated cost is