The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1900-11-02
KANSAS Trims or INTEREST.

Wamego.
Miss Luella Neiswanger has been ap
pointed police judge in Almena, Nor
ton county.
Vim. Lanyon has just put up $50, 0OC
for the bonds issued for building the
Paola waterworks.
aThere is to he a fall inspection of the
Kansas National Guards during No
vembcr and December.
The title to the Kansas Midland is
now complete in the Frisco line; the
last requisite act is finished.
Jos. Edwards Of near Clifton, raises
potatoes in quantities every year.
This year he ships FIVE carloads.
The Kansas hens contribution to
the wealth of the state this year is es-
timated at four million dollars
Kansas had choice location as
signed for its building at the Pan
American exposition at Buffalo
i. n. Replogle, a Cottonwood Falls
druggist, was sandbagged and robbed
while driving home in his buggy.
The Kansas Millers association will
hold another meeting in Topeka the
second Wednesday in November.
A jefferson county man returned
from the Kansas City Angora goat
show with lG9 goats and 12d kids.
An accidental discharge of small
rifle instantly killed Herbert Golf, of
Arkansas City. He was T. years old.
Sedgwicll has population of less
than 600, yet there are over 200 daily
newspapers received at the post office.
West Virginia company has taken
charter under the name of the Kan
sas Oil and Gas company of Fort Scott.
All of the Santa Fe's 2s,O42 freight
cars are equipped with air brakes; of
which %, 40 have automatic couplers.
The work of thirty coopers is re-
quired to supply the four or 5000 bar
rels used in the mills of Atchison every
week.
Samuel Lewis. colored prisoner in
the Kansas penitentiary, sent there
from Wyandotte county, has commit
ted suicide.
a Mcpherson county farmer sold $50
worth of alfalfa seed from IL acres of
land, besides retaining 9 bushels for
his own use.
The contract is let for Coffeyvilles
new municipal electric light and power
plant, for $685.. The city voted $780,
600 in bonds.
A brave lad near Cedarvale attacked
catamount with a stick and got his
shoulder and neck badly torn by the
animals claws.
THE special election in Washington.
Kas, on issuing $4,000 bonds for a
system of waterworlis. was carried by
large majority.
A bird dog at South Haven made
dead set on a box of quails at the depot
thus giving away the shipper who was
breaking the law.
A church census in Wichita develops
the fact that nine-tenths of the families
in the city have preference for some
particular church.
A car Of fish from the government
hatcheries has been distributed at
Wichita to farmers, with which to stock
their ponds on their farms
The $50 excursionists from Reno
county TO the Kansas Agricultural col
lege, many of them teachers, had very
disagreeable weather during their visit.
The Masonic temple in Independence
Was dedicated on October %. One of
the three living charter members of
the Independence lodge, NJ. D. Henry,
was present. He is SO years old. The
lodge was organized in 1869. The tenn
pie cost about S25, 900.
ucTc dTt sIOIcu III Out Warehouse III
Topeka between 10 and 10 thousand
bushels of Kansas apples. Ben Davis,
Wine Sap and Missouri Pippin are
being shipped to the eastern states,
while Baldwins and Greetings are COM
ing to Topeka from New York
The twenty-ninth annual Sunday
school convention of Reno county will
be held in Nickerson November 10 and
II.
Attorney GODDARD has decided that
rules and regulations made by the state
board of health are effective and prac-
tically have the force and effect of
laws
There is quarter in Osborne county
for which the owner received $3.50, cash
rent. this season. The quarter is in al
falfa. The owner is going 10 raise the
rent, too.
An Eskridge barber who has worked
there a year saws that he has not been