The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1900-03-23
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.


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j. Is. Baden, the well known Win
field miller, is dead
The annual encampment of the q. a.
r. is to be at Ilolton on May o.
Topeka teachers find that eight per
cent of boys in the schools smoke cigar
cites.
A bond vote for building 100000
school house comes up at the next cleo
ton in Chanute.
Incendiares burned the $4,000 resi-
dence of j. c. Fox: the wholesale drug
gist of Atchison.
The state board of Education meets
this week to revise the course of study
in the common schools.
Miss Helen Gould has made her
second donation of $500 to the y. NJ c.
A. library at Fort Scott.
Clayton Nichols, who was employed
at saw mill at Morris, was cut to
pieces by the circular saw.
Sheriff Simmons, of kearney county,
has married Miss india Harris, super
intendent of Hamilton county.
The largest COW in Kansas is owned
by Dick Claclz, of Gaylord. She weighs
1000 pounds and is six feet high.
A burglar secured from E. j. Derge's
house in Lebanon, $50 diamond, an
$50 gold brick and SO in money.
Colonel A. j. Smith, assistant in
spector general of Soldiers homes, is
officially present at Leavenworth.
Hays City lost a large frame elevator
by fire, together with grain and ma
chinery. The loss was about $1,000.
Miss Anna A. Mclaughlin, of Horton,
went alone to West Africa and married
DIR. w. S. Lehman after her arrival
there.
Rev. DR.. Don S. Colt, pastor of the
First NJ. Il. church of Wichita, has re-
ceived call to the largest church in
Baltimore, Md.
Fort Scott will build a $4,000 audi
torium and will have it completed in
time for the Democratic and Populist
state conventions.
The annual convention of Congre-
gational ministers of Eastern Kansas
and Western Missouri met at Leaven-
worth with thirty pastors in attend
ance.
Miss Kate Rhea, of Yates Center, is
dead. She taught the first school there
and continued with it 26 years except
the four years when she served as
county superintendent.
John Colvin is dead. His home was
at Moline. In 1855 he was the nominee
for vice president on the industrial re-
form ticket Since then he has been
in the Osawatomie insane asylum.
P. H. Anderson of Abilene has start
ed back to Alaska. While at home he
bought farm for 5000 cash and
fitted up a handsome place for his
parents.
Mr.. Ressigue, now general superin-
tendent of the Santa Fe, was once
division superintendent at Wichita and
General Manager Harding of the Mis-
q
intendent of the same road at Wichita.
The department of agriculture at
Washington reports the following
quantity of corn, wheat and oats in
the hands of Kansas farmers on March
l, 1900: Corn, 92,672,277 bushels;
wheat, 9,4S1 ,691 bushels; oats, 1851
764 bushels,
Aaron Dresser, of Solomon, aged 81
years, the oldest Mason in Kansas, is
dead after brief illness. He had been
faithful to Masonry since young man
hood and was widely known in Central
Kansas.
The sheriff at Fort Scott took slel-
eton key from tramp and with it
unlocked the doors of the first ten
stores he came to.
1t is said that more farms have
changed hands in Cowley county with
in six months last past than in any
otherKansas county.
Judge Hook, of the federal district
court. in session in Wichita, declared
void $4,000 worth of bonds of Fargo
township, Seward county.
Some one has figured it out this way
The United States mint at New Orleans
coins $50 a minute, or S24, 900 in each
working day. Working 300 days in
the year this mint can coin just enough
money to buy the Jewell county crops,
which last year footed up s7.O74. 3Oj.
All the mints in the country cannot
coin the money represented in the crops
of fifteen Kansas counties.
Mrs. Annie i. Diggs, state librarian,
has gone to indianapolis, Ind, to make