The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1900-04-20
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.


suicide in lola. No reason for the &C,
is known.
The Rock Islands bridge over the
Cimarron river at Arkalon was washed
out last week. 1t is 1850 feet long.
The ladies of Delphos have a public
library of 600 volumes and now pro-
pose to erect suitable home for it.
The colored people of Great Bend
nominated a city ticket composed en-
tirely of colored men, 1t was defeated.
At an oratorical school contest in
Bourbon county Patsey Kelley took
first prize and Biddy Leahy the second.
Mrs. Admiral Dewey owns consider
able real estate in Wichita, left to her
by her former husband General Hazen
The stone work on the Topeka audi
forum is completed and the city hall
portion of the building is ready for its
roof.
The fortieth anniversary of the mar
riage of John p. st. John and wife was
celebrated at their home in Olathe last
week.
Will Young, of Galena, was drunk
and in Jail when his wife died from an
overdose of cocaine. There are three
children.
John Jensen, baker of Fort Scott,
has baked 200 loaves of bread day for
twenty-six years, or altogether 1,50o,-
600 loaves.
The depositors of the First National
bank of Emporia get another 10 per
cent dividend making 80 per cent paid
them so far.
Over $50 car loads of eggs have been
contracted for in Kansas to go to New
Hampshire The same party wants
800 car loads.
The old Touring mill at Kingman is
being made over so that it will be ready
for the 1900 crop, and be among the
best class of mills.
The South Haven lecture course
closed the season with over S15 on
hand The Burlingame is also ahead
about S32, in the lecture fund.
The Scottish Rite Masons held a three
days meeting in Fort Scott, last week,
N from a
large number of Kansas towns.
The new elevator between the Santa
Fe and Rock Island tracks in Wichita
is approaching completion. It's capac-
ity will be 5000 bushels of grain.
The fire departments of the cities of
Kansas will receive about 900 this
wear from the tax for that purpose
levied on the fire insurance companies.
Leavenworth wakes up this spring
on park improvements The ladies are
to take hold of the matter. 1t has be-
come quite common in Kansas towns
for the women to take active interest
in parks.
"A car load of groceries arrived at
Abilene recently from Chicago store
which farmers in Dickinson county had
ordered from travelling retail sales
man. That is beautiful way to break
up county.
A plat of lola was contracted for and
work commenced, in March. Since
then fifteen additions have been added
to the city and more coming. The con-
tractor does not know whether he will
ever catch up.
State Superintendent of Insurance
w. V. Church has turned into the state
treasury for the month of March $50
$50 AZ. OF this sum $21,14s.9S was
from taxes. For February he turned
into the treasury S7O,19o, of which S59,-
sl2.75 was from taxes.
While tearing out one of the old piers
at the Santa Fe bridge over the Solo
mon river one of the workmen found
large bundle of postage stamps in be-
tween the rocks. The bundle was com
posed of one and two cent denomina-
ton stamps and contained $50 worth.
The boiler to the stationary engine
in the Santa Fe shops at Emporia was
made in 1869 and has been in use since
that time.
Charles T. McAlester, near West
moreland, finished reading chapter
in the Bible and picked up copy of
the Christian Herald. The next in
slant he was stricken dead.
The S. & II. salt plant at Hutchinson
was served by two switches. Now
there is a struggle between the Rock
Island and the Missouri Pacific to have
exclusive access TO the plant.
J. w. Mickey. clerk of the court of
visitation fell in the basement corridor
of the state house and sprained his
ankle badly. lie walking on clutches.
A woman. DIR. Eva Harding, was a
delegate and sat in the populist con-