The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1900-09-07
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

800 prizes this season.
Late fruit about Larned was dam
aged by hail on August %.
Surgeon Major John A. Rafter, OF
Holtop, has been sent to Manila.
Roy Smith, of Dickinson county, was
killed by lightning August ". he
was 22 years old.
C. w. Morgan, of Kingman, was
driving a nail when the hammer slip
ped and the nail flew into his eye.
Delegate Flynn says the secretary OF
the interior is thoroughly in sympathy
with the people of Indian Territory.
A train load of fat steers has been
bought at the Kansas CITY stock yards
to be shipped, alive, to the Klondike.
The First Presbyterian church OF
Topeka has been re-decorated and car
peted, the carpet alone costing $1,000,
There are 1895 Kansas soldiers now
serving in the Philippines; with "a COM
missioned officers in the volunteer SER
vice.
The colored people of two or more
counties will hold an emancipation
celebration at Valley Falls on Septem-
her %.
Cowley county commissioners levied
five mill tax for the purpose of re-
ducing the bonded indebtedness of the
county.
Lieutenant Collin Ball, of the TWEEN
tieth Kansas, had several uncles who
served with his father in the Confed-
crate army.
Good rains in Central Kansas have
revived the pastures and benefited the
fodder crops. The prospect for wheat
seeding is fine.
There are so many threshing outfits
reported burned, usually including loss
of wheat, that it is impossible to keep
tab on them all.
paper mill at Independence is said
to be sure thing. 1t will cost $685.
900 and will employ from so to 70 men.
No bonus was given.
A Presbyterian excursion from Olathe
to Leavenworth on August 30, over
the Santa Fe, was large one. Ten
cars we're engaged for it.
Burlington claims to have a citizen
who is cousin of Minister Conger and
Yates Center is the home of a nephew
Of the minister to China.
The imbecile asylum at Winfield now
has 204 inmates, Of whom 1875 are male
and 70 are females. The state now has
Sl35,OOo invested in this charity.
VIM. A. Jones, of Harper county,
died of heart disease August 20, while
cutting corn. He was missed but his
body was not found until the next day.
1t is said that minister in Dickin-
son county has told his congregation
that the women's high hats must come
off during service or that the sexes
must be separated to different sides of
the church.
The Frisco railroad has made ar
rangements to run a special train to
Wichita from Columbus, Kansas, on
September s, the date of the annual
logrolling of the Woodmen of the
World in that city.
The people of Kansas City, Kas., are
pleased with the census, which places
its population at 51,4ls. This is but
500 less than was claimed by the Mer-
camille club. There are from 10, 900 to
10000 people whose earnings are made
in the city but who live in additions
not in the corporate limits.
1t is said that 5000 people assembled
at Wetmore, from Nemaha, Brown and
jackson counties, at the annual Modern
Woodmen logrolling OH August %.
]. A. Dawdy, of Mitchell county, has
built a balm which will hold hundreds
of tons of hay, 10000 bushels of grain,
and 100 head of horses and cattle with
out crowding.
A son of Silas Robinson, of Usage
county, while trying TO jump from a
fence onto his horse, fell and a sun
flower stalk pierced his bowels, making
a dangerous wound.
J. p. Williams, veteran Just re-
turned from the Leavenworth Soldiers
home, died of heart disease near Win
field while seining. His body was
found in water only waist deep.
The new report Of the labor commits
sioner of the state contains chapters on
the following subjects: Wage Garner
statistics; labor organizations; the
packing industry; the creamery indus
try; lead and zinc industry; county
charities; industrial education; chattel
mortgages; factory inspection; strikes
and other labor troubles.
Central Kansas had hail storm on
the night of August "a. East bound
trains WE'RE DELAYED An elevator xvae