The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1900-03-02

The Hutchinson library gets l0C
volumes as present from Miss Helen
Gould.
Pittsburg has captured factory foi
the manufacture of gas and gasoline
engines.
A great scarcity of box cars is re-
ported ON the middle division of the
Santa Fe.
The Wichita Improvement society is
agitating paving more of the streets OF
the city.
Did you ever try popping Kafir corn
1t is asserted to be better than regular
pop corn.
A cattle dipping plant is to be estab
lished at Garden City The cattle mer
are to do it.
Only two states, New York and Michi
gan, rank above Kansas in the pro
duction of salt.
Two boys of the neighborhood broke
into a stone at Utica, were caught at il
and are in Jail.
An election is to be held in IIutchin
son upon the question of establishing
free city library.
A Leavenworth county man drew $50
for wolf scalps, from the county treas
ury the other day.
Mrs. Mary Stewart. of Mulvane, has
lived in three centuries, she was 100
years on February Il.
The Topeka council has passed an
ordinance providing for an annual levy
of half mill pagk tax.
The Santa Fe shops in Topeka flung
Old Glory to the breeze from every de-
partment on February %.
Among new rural delivery routes an
nounced are two in Jewell county and
one in Wyandotte county
The cattlemen and lumbermen hold
a conference in the executive office at
the state capital on Feb. %.
Zinc ore has been found in quantities
promising profit at Baxter Springs. 1T
is 125 feet from the surface.
A dog which was neighborhood
pet at Industry was recently buried in
a nice casl1et decorated with flowers.
About 100 people attended the funeral.
Rev. Joseph Denison, Kansas pio-
neer who was the first president OF
the state agricultural college, and later
of Baker University, is dead, aged 50.
The Santa Fe has 256 stations to sup
ply with the new simplex tickets. 1t
made the ticket clerks at the general
Offices hustle to distribute the tickets
on time.
1t is said that Scranton is to lose
about $50 coal miners who are to go to
the coal fields of Illinois. Coal King
c. ]. Devlin figures that he can produce
coal there to better profit
A Goodland lady made mail pur-
chase of towels from big city. She
compared them with stock in store
at home and found that she had paid
three cents each more than she could
have bought them for at home, not
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The fame of Kansas as producer of
cattle is well enough known, but its
sheep record and the fact that it has
produced the two fastest pacing horses
the world has ever seen, are equally
prophetic of her eventual position as
the leading livestock state in the coun-
try.
Kansas produced a Merino sheep
c"Baby Lord whose fleece of - pounds
produced in one year and few days,
exceeded the worlds record by ~
pounds Another Kansas bred Merino
(Meadow Lass 2nd) is a great winner
of sweepstakes and has never been de-
feated.
The Methodists of the First church,
at Ottawa, Kas., will build a $4,000
parsonage, the site having been given
by Colonel S. b. Rohrbaugh.
A sharper canvassed Republic county
a short time ago selling patent feed
cookers" to the farmers. The News
saws tibet all of the cookers" have
blown up.
A bed of llaolin porcelain clay has
been discovered in Crawford county.
1t is twenty-six feet in depth. A COM
pany is engaged in buying up all the
land in that vicinity.
The semi-annual apportionment of
the interest on the state school fund
amounts to 45 cents for each person of
school age. The last apportionment
was Al cents and the two preceding
that were 81 and Al cents.
There is spirited contest going on
for the office of grand medical examin-
err of the Kansas \. o. L. w. This po-
sition paws as much money as United