The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1900-11-23
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

county Jail.
There are 1929 children Of school
age in Shawnee county.
The manager of the Southwestern
peanut butter company says be has de-
cided to open factory in Wichita.
Old soldiers at the Leavenwm'th Home
use $50 ounces of coffee and 100 ounces
of tobacco to each man during n year.
d. b. Dyer, of Smith Center, was Me
first announced candidate for sergeant
alarms of the house of representatives.
Near Conway Springs there is a
wheat field in which the wheat meas
ures "a inches. Billy Frantz measured
it.
The Missouri Pacific has donated ten
more carloads of crushed rock for the
driveways in Riverside Park, in Wich-
tia.
c. II. Dietrich, of Hastings, Nes.,
and who is probably elected governor
of that state, is the son of an Atchison
shoemaker.
Residents of Western Kansas would
be happy if they could buy coal at
prices which Leavenworth people con-
slider outrageous.
1t is estimated from incomplete re-
turns that about 1875, 200 votes were
cast for the judicial amendment of
which three-f ourths were in its favor.
Congressman Curtis expected to visit
Indian Territory before returning to
Washington, but is compelled to aban-
it on account of pressing business at
home.
Alvin Williams was elected county
county commissioner of Osborne coun-
ty. Although he died at noon on cleo
ton day the people kept right on
voting for him.
S. j. Hunter, of the department of
entomology at Kansas University has
been invited to address the Colorado
State Horticultural society at Denver
on November 81.
The Girard canning factory put up
90, 900 cans of tomatoes and $4,000 cans
of apples this year. They now want
to contract for $50 acres of tomatoes
and 500 acres of sweet corn.
Emporia feels like Dragging over its
prospects for the coming year, which
include a new depot, new court house,
the new Carnegie library, a new ward
school and the new normal library.
Josiah Moose, the man who guided
the Mormons across the plains and
wrote book about it, just celebrated
his Goth birthday at his home in Win
field. He is still strong and hearty.
The enrolment of children in public
schools of Kansas during the past year
was 396, 800; an increase of $780, Wy
andotte leads with Shawnee second,
Cherokee third and Sedgwick fourth.
George Robinson, negro, has been
arrested on suspicion of numbering
Pearl Forbes, candy factory employee
of Leavenworth. The murder was
most brutal. He was taken at Tonga
noxie.
Half of the town of Stafford was de-
stroyed by fire on November 10. The
loss is estimated at 100000 partially
covered by insurance. The Stafford
County Leader is in the list of property
burned.
The directors of the Kansas Semi
Centennial Exposition company met to
adopt plans for the sale of stock to
towns over the state, having a start in
the s25, 900 subscribed for by business
men of Topeka.
A cooperative charitable association
of church societies, lodges and chart
table societies, is being formed in
Wichita.
The alfalfa seed crop of Kearney
county is estimated 1000 bushels.
Prices are good and the seed is being
marketed.
The establishment of free delivery of
mail in town after town is serving to
break up some of the gangs of loafers
who have, time out of mind, floclSed to
the postoffice on the arrival of a mail
train-and never received aEy mail.
John Washberger, of Edgerton was
watching a steam shovel work and
to keep out of its way stepped in front
of a passenger train and was killed.
When the office of marshal of city
court was created, Governor Stanley
appointed Jack Starr at Atchison.
Later an election was held and John
Flynn beat Starr who. however, refused
to give up the Office, claiming he held
it two years under the appointment.
The supreme court recently decided for
Flynn and Starr has to fork over eight
cen months salary.
Arguments have been submitted in
She supreme court on issuing a writ of