The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1900-05-04
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Pobltcu III Duhho.
George Hussey, of Ottawa county
has brought from Illinois, $500 Here
ford to put in his herd.
Pittsburg is to have corporation
which will manufacture paving blocks
hollow brick and pottery.
The Leavenworth Congregations
church has band of forty boys hare
at work on military tactics.
Three colored girls are members O
the class which will graduate from tn,
Sabetha high school this season.
Edward Hinote, young man, wa
trying to ford South Fork Creek il
Chase county, and was drowned.
Horse and mule buyers for both thu
American and British war departments
are just now securing Kansas for stock
The Arkansas river was reported out
of it's banks on April 20, at Nickerson
Sterling, Great Bend and Hutchinson
The three Kansas medical societies
have for several years held joint annual
meetings. This practice is now stopped.
The plans for the fine new school
house in Lawrence have been changed
and it will be built of brick instead of
stone
Three colored boys were running
ahead of a train at Coffeyville, one Of
them stumbled and was cut to pieces
on the track.
The Baptist church at Cherryvale,
with its fine carpets, opera chairs and
organ, is total loss by fire; amounting
to about S. 200.
Mrs. J. T. Goodnow, of Manhattan,
is dead, at the age of IS. Every early
settler knew her husband and most of
them knew her.
John and Sarah Mcmillan, who have
lived in Emporia 40 years, recently
celebrated the sixtieth anniversa ry
of their marriage.
Bismark Grove at Lawrence has been
sold to private parties to be used as
shipping and supply station for the
horse and mule market at Kansas City.
Already over 100, 900 pounds of peni-
Tertiary binding Irvine have been sold
to the Kansas farmers. The whole out
I'LL l, @alr 20 - &c do
The coal oil inspector has turned into
the treasury in the past nine months
S15,116.75. Salaries of the inspection
department during the same time were
$1,000.
1t is said that during March 2,575
acres of farm land in the vicinity of
Mound Ridge, Mcpherson county,
changed hands, the total consideration
being nearly ST. 200.
1t is estimated that the loss of live
stock in Gray and Finney counties,
during the late storm, amounted to
perhaps $4,000. When the storm
came the cattle had been on fresh grass
and were soft.
Dickinson county has the largest
demand for farms it ever had. New
purchasers, who have been renters in
Nebraska and farther east, finding it
difficult to make satisfactory leases,
are buying farms.
The Smoky Hill and Solomon rivers
were SO high the other day as to en-
danger railroad bridges. The electric
light plants at Solomon and Abilene
were run by steam, as the water was
too high to be used.
Valley Falls First NJ. E. church and
parsonage are burned. There was in
surance of So, 100. Only the organ
and pulpit was saved from the church;
the pastor saved most of his household
goods.
A number of burglaries occurred in
Galena, during the early morning of
April "a; the Frisco depot was one of
the places robbed.
The meeting of the Kansas Grand
Lodge Knights Templar will convene
in Wichita May s. Five hundred
Knights are expected.
George P. Dold. who had the control
of the Dold packing house in Wichita,
died April %, at Buffalo, N. Y, prob
aoly from fatty degeneration of the
heart.
Mrs. Chrisman, Of Topeka, willed
s25O,OOO for the founding of a Metho-
dist university, contingent on the
churches raising an equal amount with
in ten years. She also gave sl5. 900 to
the Ohio Wesleyan university, s5,O
for new parsonage for the First NJ
f. church Of Topeka and 81, 900 to the
Women's Missionary Society.
Mrs. L. B. Smith, president of the
Kansas State w. c T. L., was quite
seriously injured at Quincy, by falling
on broken sidewalk.
Rev. Colonel Allen b. Buckner has
been given a pension at $50 a month.
DIR. w. Z. Bovakin. of Marvsville who