The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1900-05-18
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.


Abilene's spring census shows pop
ulation of 1896, gain of ls3 in year.
A United Commercial Travellers
council is to be instituted in Abilene.
The first crop of alfalfa is being har-
vested in the western part of the state.
Rev. Sheldon gives the Topeka Y. NJ.
o. A. $500 for improving their rooms.
The gun and rifle clubs of Winfield
are planning to import some Chinese
pheasants.
Ameeting of all the Registers of Deeds
In the state is called to convene in
Hutchinson May %.
Rev. j. D. Richey came from St. Louis
to become rector of St. Johns Episco-
pal church in Wichita.
Miss Helen Gould is to furnish two
beds in the Winfield hospital. The
building is nearing completion.
Evelyn Louise Lease, late of Wichita,
won the prize at the annual debate in
the Normal college in New York.
In one day of pension payment week
the treasurer of Shawnee county took
in S61O-in pension vouchers for taxes.
Bank Commissioner Breidenthal says
he will take up certificates of banks it
they do not quit allowing overdrafts.
The Phoenix mills at Coffeyville were
damaged by fire to the extent of $4,000
last week. Insurance covers the loss.
The penitentiary now has an even
Thousand convicts and there is no
trouble in keeping them all at work.
Ex- Senator Ingalls, is to return to
his home in Atchison June LIST, from
Arizona and is much improved in
health.
Thirty-eight graduates of the Olathe
high school received diplomas at the
commencement exercises in the opera
house.
The twenty-eighth session Of the Ma
tional Conference of Charities and Cor
rection is to be held in Topeka, May
1924, 1900.
E. F. Hughes, of Phillipsburg has a
pair of harness names which were
made in Virginia before the Revolu-
tionary war.
The valuations of railroad rolling
stock were not changed by the state
board of railroad assessors from those
fixed last year.
The Fort Scott city council has under
consideration proposition for the pur-
chase of an electric street railway line
and light plant.
Roy Jordan, Hutchinson boy who
served in the Twenty-fourth United
States infantry in Manila, died in San
Francisco, May 7.
There is gas engine factory at Pitts
burg the business of which requires
larger quarters; this has given Chero-
kee an opportunity to try and secure
the removal of the factory to that place.
A Santa Fe surveying corps are at
work on proposed line from Moline,
Kas., to Saltwater, o. t. 1t is also
understood that the proposed line from
Coffeyville will be built. The Moline
line will be direct one from Emporia
to Guthrie.
DIR. and Mrs. McNicol, of Wichita,
and lady whose name is not given,
celebrated their 3Tth birthday together.
The coincidence is more interesting
because all three were born on the
same day and in the same town in On
tario, Canada.
Mrs. G. R. Landers, of Harper coun-
ty, was attracted by the pleasant favor
of castor beans and ate four of them.
Physicians saved her life.
In November 1896, the banks of
Wichita held $500, 900 id deposits; now
their deposits are about two million
dollars.
A special car load of Wichita Knights
of Pythias visited the Mount Hope
lodge where they were royalty enter
tanned. While there they assisted in
the initiation of seven members of the
Mount Hope lodge.
A very large deleg alton of Sunday
school workers of Wyandotte county
attended the annual state Sunday
school convention at Atchison.
An epidemic of measles has run its
course at the Orphans home at Atchi-
son and at the deaf and dumb school
at Olathe, but there we're no deaths at
either.
Fully half of the Paris excursionists
to the exposition are farmers. One
township in Ottawa county contribu-
ted five farmers and their families to
the crowd.
Eugene F. Ware has placed bronze
portrait bust of Daniel Webster Wilder
in the rooms of the Kansas Historical