The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1900-03-30
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.
KANS.

near Paola, of goods valued at 500.
The cash in the vaults of the stat
treasury amounts to nearly one million
dollars.
Galena was visited by safcblowers
who robbed safes at Il depot and at I
butcher shop.
Marion county's poor farm has Away
been self sustaining, excepting one
year of bad crops.
A shooting scrape occurred in bill
lard hall at White Cloud and the peo
pie closed the place up
The state oil inspectors turned into
the treasury S591.75, the net proceeds
of their work in March.
Almena has two tickets for city
officers, one nominated by the women
and the other by the men.
Mrs. II. r. Hayson. of Burlingamc,
has gone to join her husband, Captain
Hayson, in the Philippines.
There is now paid monthly at Cherry
vale nearly $50. 900 in wages to work
men in manufacturing plants.
Bishop Hennessey was in the county
this weel; to locate three new Catholic
churches in Sedgwicll county
At Bazine Roy Barry shot and killed
John Casey. They were rivals IN Il
love affair and had been drinking.
A Smith Center man had team: one
of the horses died; purse was made
up and the man has team again.
Eighteen thousand eggs in one day
Is reported as having been taken in by
bne firm in junction City last week.
Kansas University has ordered S., 600
worth of chemicals from Germany.
The goods arS admitted free of duty.
DIR. p. NJ. Sturgis, of Topeka, aged
81, says he is the only man in Kansas
who has ever seen General Lafayette.
A belt line of railway around Wichi-
ia for the convenience of wholesalers
and manufacturers is being agitated.
The state agricultural college has
B20 hogs. They were vaccinated with
hog cholera virus and all but sc died.
A ten acre chicken farm is being fit
ted up at Newton for the purpose of
supplying the Santa Fe eating houses.
Wanamaller, Shawnee county, has
measles as an epidemic. Many middle
hged and elderly people have the
disease.
Franklin county assessors are asses
sing on the old plan, after attempting
to work on the plan that other counties
are trying.
City Marshal Prentice, of Lawrence.
took rebel prisoner at the battle of
Mine Creek, and he still has that pris
oners gun.
Emporia has nominated N. A. Vyne,
a Roosevelt rough rider, for the Office
of city attorney. He was in the bat
ties about Santiago.
Mesquite grass is taking the place of
buffalo grass as far west as Ford coun-
ty. Change of climate has crowded
buffalo grass west gradually. Forty
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the Blue river.
Rev. Sparks, who attended the VI. f.
conference at Chanute, said that for 46
years he never missed roll call at the
annual conference except one. That !
was when he was serving in the army
as chaplain.
Four deaths have occurred in Mont
gomery county since January l, caused |
by blood poison following gun shot
wounds.
The bill granting Fort Hays reserva-
ton to Kansas has passed both houses. !
The last action was concurrence by the
senate in the house amendment to |
another bill which covered this subject. |
Frank w. Elliot, editor of the Troy
Times, who was Governor Leedy's
private secretary, was shot after leav-
ing train. at that place in the night.
He is seriously wounded.
A Topeka bank receives remittances
from Rock Island stations to the |
amount of 81, 900, 900 year. The funds
come in drafts, and checks and the
bank reports that not single item
has been bad paper or forgery.
A few years ago Paul Torrington
was travelling around over Kansas help
ing to get up amateur minstrel shows
He is low on his way to Asia. where
he will be superintendent of the entire
system of water works on the TRANSIT |
berian railroad, built by the Russian
When a Kansas delegate to a conven-
ton cannot attend and issues a proxy |
under the law he must stamp his proxy |
with a 25-eent revenue stamp.
Shawnee county commissioners |
are endeavoring to stop fee grab |