The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1900-03-02
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.
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The towns of Dickinson county are
organizing town improvement societies
to commence work in the spring.
Ottawa entertains delegates from
local Knights of Pythias lodges OF
twenty-five towns, February 81 and ~
The Kansas State Holiness camp
meeting is to be held in Wichita again
this year, from August lG to 20 inclus'
i've.
The Masonic grand lodge convened
in Topeka, February 20. The officers
of the grand lodge of Missouri were
present as guests.
Secretary Coburn OF the state board
of agriculture has bound his quarterly
reports into one volume and is now
distributing them.
The Royal and Select Master Masons
held their thirty-second convocation IN
Topeka, February 1921. Masons from
all parIS Oh NdHsdS NSiS IL WV
Mr. and Mrs. E, b. Bishop, of Lin
coin. celebrated their golden wedding
a few DAYS ago. The friends of the
aged couple made them present OF a
fine Jersey COW.
James Dun, chief engineer of the
Santa Fe proper, has been promoted IN
the service. He will go to Chicago and
act as consulting engineer of the entire
Santa Fe system.
Judge Hook of the federal district
court is attempting to get old cases of
the docket. There are many cases
which have been continued for years
for lack of prosecution.
Chancellor Snow of the state univer-
sity has been invited by the London
Times to revise the article on Kansas
in the Forthcoming supplement to the
Encyclopedia Britannica.
Senator Thurston has a bill to bring
about revision of and adjustment of
the sales of the Otoe and Missouri lands
in Kansas and Nebraska. 1t is proba-
BILE that congress will take early action.
A special train of nine cars will leave
Topeka on the evening of March :, via
the Santa Fe, for Texas, to take the
Kansas Grain Dealers association on
ten days trip to Galveston and Hous-
ton.
Mrs Ross Burns, who died recently
in Topeka, was quite wealthy. Besides
the real estate she owned she had S10,-
600 in government bonds. No will has
been found. Her only relative is
sister in Boston.
E. C. Franklin, professor of physical
chemistry in the University of Kansas
has received letter from DR.. Paul
Walden of the university of Riga, Rus
sia complimenting him on some recent
experiments with liquid ammonia
b. f. McMurtrie, chief dispatcher of
the Santa Fe in Topeka, has resigned.
He has held that position for twenty
five years. Paul Morton, second vice
president of the Santa Fe, was once a
clerk in McMurtrie's Office while he
was working in Nebraska.
James Nesbit, has just completed
the work of erecting buildings on the
Kickapoo reservation west of Atchison,
at a cost of ST., 900 The new buildings
are modern, and include bath rooms
and other conveniences. A gas plant
is soon to be put in. Over forty In
dian children live at the school, and
are taught cleanliness as well as book
knowledge. The children 60 home
only once a month.
The Most Eminent Grand chapter of
Royal Arch Masons opened its thirty
fifth annual convocation in the Masonic
temple in Topeka on February 10.
The Kansas delegates to the national
pure food and drug congress, in Wash
ington March are: Willard Bigelow,
Gardner; w. f. Jensen, Beloit; b. w.
Woodward, Lawrence; j. +. Greenlee,
Hutchinson; Thomas ID. Hubbard,
Kimball; S. d. Banner, Newton; w. A.
Smith, Wilson: Charles II. Beers, Hoxie;
William Green, Topeka; Charles F.
Keffer, Atchison.
The Severy rancho in Lyon county
once comprised 5000 acres, supposed
to be worth $4,000 There is now
left $50 acres which has been sold for
si6, 0OO to D. Beihler, of Dickinson
county.
Congressman Bowersock is asking
congress to expend S., 900 to repair the
road leading out of Fort Scott to the
national cemetery. Nearly 1000 vet
Grams of the Mexican, civil, Spanish and
Filipino wars are buried in this GENE
terry, and it is kept up beautifully by
/the government.
Frank Sax. of Lyon county. raised
field of cane which Melted him Sl5.54
per acre for the seed and he had the
fodder besides.