The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1900-09-14
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

in Lawrence.
The Rock Island hotel at Herington
was burned September 3. The loss is
about $1,000.
A three-year-old boy of John McKaig'
of johnson county, had both feet cut
off by cane cutter.
The Epworth Leagne and Home Mis-
sionary societies are holding camp
meeting at Larned.
Kansas now has 497 state, private
and national banks; 1876 state, l03 ma
tional and IS private.
Coroner b. f. Wheeler, Of Pawnee
county, died from an overdose Of NOR
phine taken by mistake,
Colonel Z. C. Little, Governor Stan
lev and the Rev. d. NJ. Fiske were the
Labor day orators at Topeka.
The farmers of Verdi. ottawa coun-
ty, have taken a charter for an eleva-
tor company with a capital of $1,000.
The poultry storage and cleaning
house at Argonia, has been burned,
with loss of 81. 700; insurance $1,000.
A partition sale, near Sedgwick, on
petition of heirs. resulted in the sale OF
24O-acre farm for 81, 0j0 cash in hand.
The state board of health reports 10
cases of smallpox in the state; eleven
of them among miners in the south
east.
The Rock Island depot at Alma is
burned, with loss of $4,000 or more.
A better building will take its place at
once
vineyards in Southern Central Kan
sas REQUIRE to be constantly patroled
ITO keep the orioles away from the
grapes.
., Hazeltine, the Cawlier thresher man
has five machines at work this year
caoh of which keeps dozen men wait.
ing on 1t.
Lightning struck John Strahm's
barn near Sabetha and his son, aged
10. was killed. The barn and contents
were burned.
The railroads have granted one and
one third fare to the annual meeting OF
the anti-horse thief convention at Wich-
tia on October 10.
The Plaza mine. southeast of Galena,
was fired twice by incendiaries, and
the last time it burned. 1t was owned
by eastern people.
Senator Albert ]. Beveridge, of In
diana, will speak in Topeka, october0,
concerning his personal Investigations
in the Philippines.
b. P. Wagner gave party to the
children of Atchison, paying car fare
and giving band concert About
$500 children attended.
f. d. Gorham, of Gorham, had ltO
acres of wheat in one field which av-
eraged "a bushels to the acre, and
which tested 641l pounds.
At target practice of company A.,
of the Kansas N. g., the members OF
the company who were Twentieth
Kansas boys made the best scores
Six stone cutters working on the
Coffey county court house quit work
because they were refused 45 cents an
hour. They had been getting 40 cents.
The new cement plant at lola makes
a terrible noise, but the pay checks
handed out by the company talk in
such a loud tone of voice that no one
kicks on the racket of the machinery.
John w. Hussey aged So, farmer
near Madell, Kas., was walking on the
track of the Lincoln branch of the U.
P. at Shipton, and was killed.
A Sumner county man who went
through an old bridge with wagon
load of apples has filed bill against
the county commissioners for $500 dam
ages.
Kansas club women have Inaugural
ted a scheme to raise $4,000 in the
western states which furnished troops
for the Philippines, to erect soldiers
and sailors club house in Manila.
Atchison is to have new bridge
over the Missouri river and during it,
construction wagon traffic will b'
handled the old way, by ferry boat
Among big yields of wheat reported
in Rice county are the crops of VIM
Asher, 400 bushels off eight acres; anc
Thomas Saint, 45 bushels per acre OF
forty acres.
Special trains commenced to arriv
in Wichita early in the day of Septem
Der 5, bringing crowds to attend tn
Woodmcn logrolling. Later the pa
rade was an event to be remembered
w. C. Williams WOE the State chal