The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1900-06-22
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

contested at st. Paul, which towns
club led on the score.
Council Grove citizens will erect
5000 band stand for their band, OF
whom they are proud.
Captain Adna G. Clark, of the Twen-
tieth Kansas, is seeking an appoint
ment in the regular army.
A cooperative creamery company,
with capital of S., 900, has been char
tered to do business at Oswego.
One of the three prohibition parties
of Kansas is to hold state nominating
convention in Topeka June 20.
Thomas Roney Boston man who
came to work in Kansas harvest fields,
was killed by train at Abilene.
The new Catholic church at Parsons
when finished, will be almost 200 feet
from foundatian to top of spire.
The governor has added the name OF
w. Ii. Barnes of Topeka to the list OF
Kansas commissioners to Buffalo.
Il. N. Hancock, of Olathe, has been
re-appointed as member of the board
of manag ,rs of the Dodge City Soldiers
home.
It is said that Mulvane dressmaker
was building at one time, quite recent
ly, three silk dresses and one satin
dress.
Miss Anna Murphy, school teacher
Of Topeka, goes to Sault Ste Marie,
Mich, as pastor of Congregational
church.
The officials of the state reform
school have created great interest
among the boys in the study of the
birds of Kansas.
During the storm on June 10 much
damage resulted from lightning which
entered the Sterling telephone ex-
change and caused fire.
Harper county proposed to give the
Orient railroad S45, 900 in bonds as soon
as the road is completed to the Texas
line, and also pay the expenses of the
election.
A Rock Island freight train ran into
an open switch at Mayetta demolishing
three car loads of threshing machines
and engines. Oh! yes, all receipts of
the railroads are profit. Nit
Mrs. Nation went to all the saloons
in Kiowa early one morning and broke
everything breakable in them, first the
windows and with stones what was in
side, plate glass mirrors, bottles, etc.
The damage done amounted to $500.
Experiments made in different Sec
tions of the state go to show that salt
sown with wheat, at about 200 pounds
to the acre, brings better crops, in
quality and quantity, on poor soils,
than the best bottom lands produce
without it,
The Smith Center ladies had read
ing club and wanted library and
went after it. After three years they
now own two story brick building
on the main street of the town, of
which the lower story is fitted up for
the library and reading room and the
second story is rented. They have a
large library. One side of the room
has cases filled with minerals, shells,
relics and curiosities. The association
is out of debt aud has funds on
hand.
]. NJ, Anthony, brother of Susan
B. and Daniel r., dropped dead in Fort
Scott. He had lived in Fort Scott
thirty years.
The Peavy elevator company has
captured control of the grain trade
along the Union Pacific in Kansas
under the name of the Midland Eleva-
tor company.
Fifty Kansas counties must pay the
state about 800, 900, as result of the
decision of the supreme court in the
Harper county case which makes coun'
ties liable for unsolicited state taxes
The enumeration of Wilson comfy
gives the population at 1885. In the
towns Fredonia leads with 1,719 and
Neodesha follows with 1,6sO.
Sedgwicl1 county has a bonded in
debtedness of only $4,000; a remark
ably small sum for so large a county
with its public improvements close VI
to any demand.
The receipts of the Kansas insurance
department for the year were s12o,
72lO5; the expenses amo, nted to Sc,
$685. 30, leaving a nice balance which
went into the state treasury.
Had FIRE insurance rates remained
the same in 1899 as they were in 1885,
the insurance written would have cos
the Kansas policy holders nearly 1
quarter of million dollars more thar
II did cost.