The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1900-01-12
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

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ant, of Lincoln, have been appointe
pension examining surgeons.
Frank Mobiles, farmer of Johnso
county, died last week of hydrophobia
He was bitten month before he died
The bill for lighting against Leaven
worth for September, October and Nc
vember is So, 49s. O3, and the city coun
Gil refuses to pay it.
There has been but one death il
Smith Centre in the past seven months
and that was the death of a person wh'
went to the town sick.
Major j. M. Harvey has been choseI
for Kansas as department commands
of the National association of Spanish
American War Veterans.
Representative Curtis has introduced
a bill to appropriate 100000 for the
protection of the Kansas bank of the
Missouri river at Atchison.
Governor Stanley has issued par
don for Isaac G. Reed who was muir
der convict. Reed was taken to hos
pital, but is hopelessly sick.
An Iowa man who went to Pratt
county for his health found it all right
enough, bought piece of land and
tells his neighbors that he has come to
stay.
John T. Prather, commission man at
the Union stockyards, Wichita, met
his death from an attempt to jump
from moving Missouri Pacific passen-
ger train.
C. F. Ressegue, who has assumed
the general superintendency OF the
Santa Fe, will move his family from
Galveston to Topeka as soon as he can
find suitable home.
Wellington has voted for municipal
ownership of waterworks and electric
lights. Fifty thousand dollars was
voted to purchase the waterworks and
$4,000 to erect light plant.
Captain Coulter, head of the G. A. R.
In Kansas, says that the order will
take steps to prosecute by fine and i'm
prisonment, men in Kansas who are
wearing the G. A. R. button without
right.
Chaplain Schliemann, late of the
Twentieth Kansas, is at his home at
Phillipsburg after a lecture tour
through Illinois and eastern Kansas,
and after couple of weeks will start
out again.
George Theis, Jr., of Ashland, one of
the biggest cattle dealers in Kansas
is well pleased with the business out
look for the coming year, and is increas
ing his ranches as rapidly as possible
in western Kansas.
The sheep barn at the fairgrounds
in Topeka, used by D. w. Kent as a
training stable, was completely de-
stroyed by fire and ten horses and sew
eral buggies and sulkies were burned.
Kent's loss is large.
Governor Stanley has appointed Ed.
II. Madison. of Dodge City, judge of
the Thirty-frst judicial district which
comprises the counties of Ford, Kiowa,
Comanche and Clark, in place of Judge
+. c. Price, resigned.
w. w. Schwinn, a Kansas lawyer
who left Wellington some time ago, in
search of a location, landed first at
Salt Lake City, then at Kansas City,
and is now going back to Wellington.
He finally sit" just where he started.
Two years ago w. H. Love, who for
many years has manufactured brooms
on small scale in Fort Scott, bought
about so bales of broom corn for SIS
per bale and the other day he sold it in
ST. Louis for 1852 per bale.
William Wood, the millionaire luna
tic who has been in the Topeka insane
asylum for twenty years, has been
called upon, through his guardian, w.
b. Throckmorton, of Wichita, to pay
into the state treasury the sum of S4,-
OILS. 40 for his board and clothes during
the period of his confinement.
Five hundred cows are owned by the
stockholders of the creamery now be-
ing built at Barnard; which ought to
give it big push toward success.
The farmers of Rice, Mcpherson and
Reno counties produced half of the
broom corn raised west of the Missouri.
Their crop was sold this year for near
ly 100000.
Henry Kimmel, of McLouth, shipped
two loads of cattle at $500. He says
If he does as well on the balance he
has on hand his corn will bring him
SO cents bushel.
And now the turkey-gold nugget
story comes from the Missouri Pacific
eating house at Gypsum. Il is stated
that the place where the turkey picked
up the nugget has been located and