The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1900-01-19
KANSAS lTEms OF INTEREST.

Governor Lewelling as state immigra'
tion agent, without pay.
The eleventh annual exhibit OF the
Kansas State Poultry Association
brought togeter 900 high bred chickens
Judge Dale of the district court in
Wichita granted an injunction against
building pest house inside the city
limits.
j. +. Crennan, manager OF the Tope-
ka branch of the Standard Oil company
was run over and killed bya Santa Fe
switch engine.
The Clark Stove company OF Kansas
City has purchased ground in Wichita
and say they will erect a building for
their own use as wholesale house.
C. J. Jones has received an offer from
Canada to bring out of the northwest
20 buffaloes, 20 musk oxen and num-
Der of reindeer. He is considering the
offer.
Charles Cavanaugh, of Sedgwick,
who was in the battle of Manila Bay,
saws that his share of the prize money,
when it comes, will be any thing from
$500 to 81, 1000.
The pupils of the Dickinson county
high school bought a handsome window
memorial of the students of the school
who served in the Spanish-Filipino-
Americana war.
CORTLAND has purchased two force
fire pumps together with ample hose
and is now putting down two large
wells, with view of giving the town
better fire protection.
Atchison by city ordinance forbids
citizens feeding tramps. The city sets
up three meals a day for the tramps in
the city building to which all hand-out
applicants are directed.
Burglaries and hold-ups are reported
in greater number recently than for
many years. Rev. Dr. Cordley's house
in Lawrence was ransacked from top
to bottom, the other night.
A Kansas man who was recently on
Wall street says this is getting to be a
by-word among the bankers: Eyes,
we are having squeeze, but you fell
lows in the west are all right"
w. A. Alden was held up and robbed
by highway robbers, in public road
between Wichita and Mulvane, OF
5000, a watch and some jewelry
Two men committed the robbery.
Colonel w. c. Whitney and his wife
of Cawker City, were surprised by the
Women's Relief Corps at the l. 0. o. f.
hall who celebrated the golden we'd
ding of this widely known couple.
The attorney general says that Kan
sas school teachers are entitled to pay
for time that schools are closed by
action of school boards, on account OF
contagious diseases, or other cause.
There is misunderstanding between
officials of the deaf and dumb school at
Olathe and the city officials about water
supply for the institution. AS result
the institution is going short on water.
J. II. Neill, formerly Rock Island
agent at Goodland, Kansas, but of late
operator and ticket seller in the Rock
Islands Wichita depot, is in Jail as
defaulter. 1t is believed that his fall
was from gambling.
The Kansas Retail Hardware Dealers
Association adopted resolutions against
trusts and combinations, declaring that
its members were DESTROYS of buying.
as far as possible, with houses who
deal outside of trusts.
Thomas Mullen, farmer in Saline
county, while digging well has run
into formation which is exciting the
community. Mullen thinks it is gold.
A Robinson boy, who is in the Phil
ippines remembered his parents with a
couple of nice Christmas presents; two
money orders, one for 500. another
for SIS.
Charley Shilato, prominent stock
man, was found dead in his cabin,
north of Dwight. He was bachelor,
living alone, and it is supposed he was
murdered.
Judge w. /. Stuart sentenced S. G..
Whitehead, the janitor of the public
schools of Sabetha to a term of two
years in the penitentiary. Whitehead
four months ago shot and severely
wounded one of the pupils for trivial
offense.
Students the Dickinson county
high school hazed farmer boy, Aaron
Emig, and severely bruised him in a
fight which followed the attempt to
have fun with him. He had one stu.
dent, John Bennett, whom he claims &c
have recognized, arrested for assault.
A prominent man was killed acciden.