The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1900-08-17
KANSAS ITEMS or INTEREST.

Baldwin is bidding for the location
of the Orient road through that place.
Pink eye among horses and cattle is
reported as resulting in total blindness
in some sections.
A joint at Williamstown had stick
of dynamite placed under it which de-
molished the building.
The Gould salt plants at Hutchinson
have stopped work indefinitely. About
900 workmen are affected.
A Neosho county farmer has import
ed start of and is successfully raising
English ring neck pheasants.
A black walnut tree and white oak
tree have been found near Atchison.
growing from the same stump.
Jas. Riley, of Boston, was found
dead in the rear of Salina joint, with
no marks of violence upon him.
L. B. Graves, a wealthy man of Par
sons, who was the first lumber dealer
there, has killed himself with a razor,
The hay crop is good in Montgomery
county and is being cut, baled and
shipped. Haying crews live in their
wagons.
Coffey county and Osborne county
both report that delinquent tax lists
of this year are shorter than for any
previous year.
There have been no new cases of
Texas fever in Chautauqua county for
several weeks. So far ten cattlemen
have lost 122 head.
An English clergyman writes to
Kansas University asking what fee he
shall send to receive the title of d. D.
from that institution.
w. w. Van Gundy, an inmate of the
Leavenworth Soldiers Home, died in
wagon near Emporia. He was on
camping trip with his family.
The Kansas live stock sanitary board
decides to continue the quarantine on
breeding cattle from all states outside
of Missouri, Colorado and Oklahoma.
Greeley county complains of a plague
of flying ants which throng the houses.
In the court house they are swept up
by the fire shovel full in all the rooms.
The Kansas Oil and Gas company are
still taking leases, having now $4,000
acres in Southern Montgomery county.
They are making arrangements to put
down wells.
The house occupied by Mrs. Thomp-
son in Wichita caught fire. She rushed
to the gate where she fell. One whole
side is paralyzed and she is blind; all
the result of fright.
Twenty-Five years ago Anton Mermis
came to Ellis county with his entire
possessions tied in blanket. This
year he has harvested so, 900 bushels of
wheat, from his own land
Some of the Topeka ministers COM
plain that the old custom of being
called upon alternately to hold services
at the insane asylum is changed; one
minister now going there regularly.
Ed. Ford and wife were boat riding
near Clay Center when both were
thrown into the water. Ford was
drowned but his wife was saved by
holding on to weeds until help came.
Lincoln Park, Mitchell county has a
grove of most magnificent oak trees
that have probably not grown any
since Columbus landed; as it takes 300
years for an oak to grow, 300 years to
mature and 300 years to die. These
trees are still thrifty.
The Wichita Eagle corrects the
statement, first made by the Eagle,
that the Gould Salt works at Hutchin-
son are closed; was wrongly informed
Department Commander Martin has
designated the Santa Fe as the official
Chicago encampment, Aug. &c to Sept
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Mrs. Crumley, of lola, was paid the
other day, S5,4O6, insurance on the life
of her father. The payment was the
first she knew that there was insurance
on her fathers life.
Miss Katherine West hanged herself
in the Osawatomie asylum. She was
highly educated and became insane
from too much study. Her home was
in Fort Scott, but she had been teach
er in New York, Connecticut and Mich
igan.
State Fish Commissioner Wiley has
within year placed 10000 fsh in the
Blue, Smoky Hill and Verdigris rivers
and in private ponds and lakes He
has bought $1,000 to distribute in Sep
TENDER, and will receive car load from
the government this fall.
Kansas farmers, when they visit
their old homes in the east this year,
register at the hotels like this: al. ].