The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1900-10-19
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Two nve story stone pulluinsS "i0
being erected in Winfield.
Over $50 new schoolhouses have been
erected in Kansas during the past year.
County treasurers in Kansas took up
their responsibilities on October 0.
John A. Bright retires from the office
of grand master of the Kansas ODD
Fellows this year.
Farms in Republic county, near
Scandal, are changing hands lively at
$50 to $50 an acre.
Ten thousand people are said to have
attended the Chetopa old soldiers re-
union and street fair.
Six special trains ran out of Wichita
on the Santa Fe during Friday night
of the carnival week.
james Eek, of Cawker City, was
killed by his shot gun which fell
through his hay rack.
The corner stone for Carl Brownies
flying machine factory in Fort Scott,
is to be laid October II.
The ladies of the Wichita Episcopal
church realized 81 900 from the sale of
confetti ut the carnival.
Wellington people raised 500 for
former resident of that town who lost
everything ut Galveston.
The Lcavenworth overall factory has
90 machines running and the payroll
is more than $3.50 week.
The water company at Cherryvale is
seeking to enjoin the city to prevent
puSing in municipal waterworks.
All Hallows academy in Wichita is to
have an expensive addition for which
the contract will be let October %
The grand lodge of the Rebekah
state assembly hold public reception
in the Topeka auditorium on Oct. 10.
The Rocl, Island handled 5s2 excur-
sion passengers from points in Illinois
to Kansas and Oklahoma on October B.
Thousa DIS of bushels of apples are
reported to be going to wa tie in Riley
county from the lack of shipping buy
ers.
Miss Myrtle Cumback, of Dodge City,
and ]. i. Miles, of Kansas City, are
married. He is nephew of General
Miles.
The locks of the Decatur county Jail
have been picked four times and the
officers are not able to find out how it
is done.
In the past four years the Santa Fe
has replaced nearly 800 bridges on its
lines, of an aggregate length of almost
40 miles.
The 43rd annual cncampment, with
1900 delegates from the Odd Fellows
lodges of Kansas, meet in Topeka on
October 8.
The Wellington gun club offers S125
reward for the arrest and conviction
of any person buying, selling or ship
ping quail.
The pupils of the Burlington high
schools have bought piano and pro-
pose to pay for it with the proceeds on
entertainments.
A wreck occurred west of Strong City
on the night Of October 3, in which
cars of cattle, two of hogs and one of
wheat were smashed.
George Dorsey, a machine worker OF
Wichita, was found dead in one of the
cars of wheat which were ditched on
the Missouri Pacific line in Chautauqua
county.
An so acre.feld of sorghum .sown for
forage in Saline county, measured six
feet high just 90 days from the time the
seed was put into the soil.
Four thousand feet of lumber which
had been rented for the use of the Well
lington jubilee disappeared and will
now have to be paid for by the jubilee
management.
Miss Lillian Dyer, appointed by Gov
ernor Stanley as student in the New
York art school last year, is married
with Milton Butterfeld, an attorney To-
Gated on Wall street, that city.
Alva Talmadge, a soldier in the Phil
ippines, wrote home to his Odd Fellows
lodge in Harrington for statement of
his account with the lodge. The mem
bers made up the amount of his dues
and clean receipt was sent to the
soldier.
A Topeka firm is now employing so
men, working ~ hours a day, to fill
contracts for the new court houses at
Deloit and Clay Center and for Haskell
institute in Lawrence The contracts
are for doors, windows and inside
finish.
The Burton car works buildings in
Wichita have been contracted for by
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