The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1900-04-27
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

was trying to halter.
Fred. L. Diggs, son of Anna L.
Diggs, was elected mayor OF Perry
Kas, on "wet ticket"
The Kansas Missouri debate held in
Lawrence, resulted in victory for the
Kansas University boys.
Vaughan Mckee, who enlisted from
Mulvane, has been murdered in Puerto
Rico. He was 30 years old
Three colored girls are members of
the class which will graduate from the
Sabetha high school this season.
Lebanon had S17G.6O in its treasury
at last official count, not cent of
which was received from joints,
John L. Gibson, Santa Fe lineman,
fell from the top of a pole in the Tope-
ka yards and was seriously injured.
The two new buildings to be erected
in Pittsburg by the Kansas City and
Southern railroad, will cost about $40,-
600.
The steam mill at Axtell is burned
at loss of So, 900 with 500 insurance.
1t had been sold the day before the
fire.
A daughter of Captain w. R. Hardy,
of Eureka, met prince while she was
studying in Italy, and is now engaged
to marry him.
DIR. Swan, the secretary of the state
medical board, reports that there are
now 2,l9o registered physicians prac-
ticing in Kansas.
rate of one fare for the round trip
will be named for the annual meeting
of the Knights of Pythias, to be held
May 1916 at lola.
John Collins, who is in the peniten-
tiary under conviction of killing his
father, in Topeka, is foreman of the
prison printing Office.
A new seige battery has arrived at
Fort Riley. 1t has six guns with
112 horses and about fifty mules.
Martin Hoyer, the owner of the mill
at Asherville was in boat on the Solo
mon river when floating timber struck
the boat and knocked the bottom out
of it. He was drowned.
Scott county has doctor who was
about to leave because his practice did
not make living. The county board
appropriated $500 as a bonus to the
doctor if he would stay, which was ac
cepted.
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.
fund for the widow of Douglas c.
Coates the Santa Fe operator at South
Winfield station, who was killed in his
Office, is being raised among the en-
ployes of the road in the southern part
of the state. Contributions have been
generous.
The internal revenue department for
the district of Kansas issued during the |
last fiscal year 1851 retail liquor deal
ers' special stamps. why will intelli
gent newspapers continue to speak of
these stamps as licences" when the
United States has not issued a liquor
dealers licence in the past 35 years?)
Clerk of Court Cook of Ness county
drove to the nursery at Sedgwick for
a load of apple trees. lie plans to set
out 40 acres of fruit this spring.
Cimarron officials have effected a
compromise with the holders of munic-
ipal bonds, who accept refunding
bonds for $50, 900 to balance the old
$50, 900 bonds.
Thirteen cars of steel, worked into
trusses, beams and plates, came to lola
for the new cement company's plant.
This is the first shipment of the 200
carloads required.
Frank l.. Jewett and Clarence f.
Klise, two Kansas university boys, who
are spending this year in Harvard.
have been appointed to hold scholar
ships in the graduate department of
that university for next year.
The Winfeld-Fairmount debate was
won by Winfield on the remarkably
close margin of one-quarter of l per
cent.
J. w. Rounds, of Logan county, mar
keted car of hogs which were all less
than six months old and averaged 900
pounds.
Wellington's $4,000 water works
bonds are to draw per cent and citi-
zen gives assurance that they win be
taken at par.
William Jewell College of Missouri,
met the boys of Ottawa University in
OTTAWA contested in a debate and Mis-