The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1900-12-21
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Murray Meyers, of Wichita, is now
the steward of the Topeka insane asy-
lum.
Fifty varieties of wood indigenous
to Franklin county are exhibited in
Ottawa.
Elwood Petty, of Haskell county, 10
years old, raised over fifty tons of feed
the past season.
The Swedish mission church will
probably establish college somewhere
in central Kansas
There is a movement for the repeal
of the law making city treasurer, clerk
and attorney elective.
The country residence of Cashier
Hollingsworth, of an Independence
bank, is burned to the ground.
Enoch Hale's livery barn at Howard,
with vehicles, harness and feed, and
two horses, fine team, are burned.
A Rock Island official has sent a
check in payment of its $50, 457.G4 taxes
for 1899, to the Reno county treasurer.
Members of the State Live Stock
Sanitary board are urging the governor
not to advise the abolishing of the
board.
Farmers of Atchison county are plan
ming to pillow up their wheat on ac-
count of the depredations of the Hes
sian fly.
John Troutman has rented his alfal
ia farm near Lallin, for three years,
and with his wife, has gone east to
live on the rent money.
Governor Stanley says he wants to
hear from the people as to what they
want done by the state for the semi
centennial exposition in 1904.
w. j. Costigan, of Ottawa, has been
selected to prepare a memorial of the
life of Ex-Governor Lewelling, to be
read before the State Historical society
at its January meeting
Miss Florence Hall, head of the de-
partment of physical culture at the
Kansas Agricultural college, died in
Manhattan on December 0, of malarial
fever.
Frank Rockefeller, of Belvidere,
Kas., bought two cows at the Armour
sale in Kansas City. He paid sl,125
for Busybody, and s1,O95 for Beau
Reals Maid.
The governor has sent the assistant
attorney general to Ness county to as
sist in the prosecution of boy charged
with criminal assault. The culprit's
father asked for this action.
d. J. Fair &c Co.'S lumber yard in Bur-
lingame caught fire and the Office and
large shed filled with finishing lum-
Der were destroyed. A great deal of
lumber in the yard was destroyed.
The Law and Order League at Tope-
ka raised in pledges S25, IT'S to prose-
cute violaters of the liquor law, in one
make it $4,000. There were $500 peo-
pie at the meeting.
Mr.. Long, a Montgomery county
farmer, sues for divorce on the ground
that his wife will not let him work on
Saturday, she having joined the Sew
enth Day Adventist church. They
have been married 80 years.
Citizens Of Atchison are preparing
Christmas presents for the 155 children
in the Soldiers Orphans Home. The
veterans at the Leavenworth Soldiers
Home will probably follow their GUS
tom of sending presents also.
Miss Pearl Murdoch, only daughter
of NJ. NJ Murdoch, Eagle editor and
postmaster of Wichita, and William 2.
Eaton, were married on December 70.
The groom is employed at the Carey
hotel owned by his uncle, b. L. Eaton.
The supreme court has unanimously
refused the writ of mandamus to com
pei the state board of charities to build
the insane asylum at Parsons. The re-
suit is likely to be the repeal of the law
for the erection of another asylum and
the passage of a new one which will
name location for it.
passenger train on the Santa Fe
ran into the rear end of freight train
at Clare, south of Olathe. Noble
Thomas, aged 16, of Emporia, was
burned to death and his father badly
mangled. The enginemen were SER
iously hurt
The county clerks of the state met in
the state auditors Office on December
13 to discuss certain bills TO be offered
to the legislature. The most import
ant measure the clerks are pressing
is bill to change assessment laws so
as to secure equal valuations.
Eighty-four witnesses for the state
In the Morrison case drew from SIS to
Gal In fees Forty of them mayor tes-