The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1900-08-31
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The state hank of Belleville has
opened for business. 1t is new bank.
Ralph Ingalls,, the son who most re-
sembles his father, is with the army in
Manila.
Old settlers of Rocks, Norton, Ora
ham and Phillips counties will hold a
reunion at Logan, September to e
Leavenworth coal miners threaten
a strike on September if their pay is
not raised. About 900 men are affected
Lawrence Boyington, assistant coach
at Cornell uni sersity, is to coach the
Kansas University football team this
fall.
The work being done by the Santa Fe
in Strengthening its tracks and redu-
cling its grades is going on upon large
scale.
There is an increasing demand for
contracts for Kansas hay. The crop is
short from the Mississippi to the At
lantic.
Judge Otis, Of Atchison, estimates
Senator Ingalls, wealth at S250,0o0 1t
is said that he left his estate to Mrs.
ingalls,.
Automobile races will be a part of
the entertainment prepared for the
good roads congress in Topeka on Sep
TENDER 25.
Governor Stanley has appointed j.
D. S. Riggs, president of Ottawa Uni
versity, as a member of the state board
of education.
W. j. Turner, one of the marines
killed in Peliin, was Topeka boy.
During the Spanish war he served on
the Indiana.
Ray Simpson, 10-year-old boy, is
blowing the wheat stubble on the
home farm for another crop. He has
no assistance.
A Mulvane man who decided his
property to his children, is said to
have appealed to the courts for aid in
obtaining food.
The boring for gas at Burlington has
reached its third effort. Two deep
holes were bored and one more at
tempt is to be made.
Dickinson county and vicinity has
experienced two weeks of 100 degree
weather with hot winds. Pastures
and corn are cooked.
Civil service examinations are APP
pointed at Parsons October 10; Wichita
October and %; Topeka September
%; Salina October 10 and 80.
company of volunteers is being
raised in Leavenworth to go to the
Orient. They offer to go as United
States or Kansas volunteers.
William Jones, a negro who con-
fessed stealing watch, was chased by
the city marshal of Newton, and, re-
fusing to stop on the marshals COM
mand, was shot in the leg.
A Hutchinson dispatch says that |.
P. Campbell and Claude Duval have
Joined in asking that new conven-
ton be held in the Seventh district to
name candidate for congress.
The First congressional district has
213,s39 population; net gain of 5,14s.
The Second 227, 292 net gain 2,3oS.
The Third 227, $50, gain 9,496; the
Fourth 1885, gain 3,4O3; the Fifth
III, s53, gain 4,sO7; the Sixth s,424,
gain II ,932; the Seventh 5000, gain
1875.
Mrs. Helen Lampl1in, of Chillicothe,
Mo-, and her husband, both under 20
years old, were travelling towards Ne
braska in wagon, when she was at
tackled with typhoid fever and died at
Abilene. They were very poor.
OF course it was Kansas soldier
who scaled the wall of PelSin, took up
the end of the rope and his comrades
climbed the rope. He enlisted in Wich-
tia April Is, 1899. He first enlisted in
Vermont in 1898. His name is Calvin
S. Titus, and while in Wichita be-
longed to the Salvation army.
w. E. Hart, president of the Nation
al Association of Accountants, is or
ganizing Kansas bookkeepers. The
object is technical education, the ex-
change of ideas and the maintenance
of an employment bureau.
Congressman Bowersock, of Law
renee owned the mill at Galena which
was swallowed by the earth on the
South Side mining ground. A large
force was at work, but the men were
warned by the cracking noise in the
earth beneath them and escaped. The
mill alone cost S., 600.
Charles Plummer, aged Il. who had
Just finished a term at the reform school
was killed in Wichita while trying tC
jump on a moving freight train.