The Chanute times., 1900-03-16
KANSAS ITEMS or INTEREST.


banks of Kansas had on deposit on Feb
ruary 13 Ss7, ,229, ,5l7.47.
There is talk of calling grand jury
In Sumner county, where there has not
been one for thirteen years.
The State Normal Mandolin club is
negotiating for five months service at
Manitou Springs this summer
The largest COW in Kansas is owned
by Dick ClaclS, of Gaylord. She weighs
1000 pounds and is six feet high.
ten pound shell filed with grape
shot was found in w. K. Fishers field
in Jackson county few days ago.
At the instigation of the W. C. T. u,
the sheriff of Mcpherson county recent
ly went clear to Illinois after a jointist.
Congressman Long has accepted an
invitation to deliver a Fourth of July
address at the National cemetery at
Gettysburg. He was selected by Penn
sylvanias delegation in congress.
The county commissioners OF Atchi-
son county advertised for bids from
banks wishing the county deposits.
Only one bid was received. The En-
change National offered per cent for
the first $4,000.
The judges for the annual debate
between representatives of Kansas
University and the University of Mis-
souri,, on April 10, are to be Colonel
w. R. Nelson, of Kansas City, and j.
w. Gleed, of Topeka.
Aunt Polly Locke, aged 81, died at
the poor house near La Crosse, last
week She had saved for old age and
placed her money in a bank. This
went up during the hard times, and
she died at last in the poor house.
The Chanute Prospecting and Brick
Manufacturing company have struck
both gas and oil in their first well
southwest of town. The strike is con-
sidered unusually important as the field
is an entirely new one and heretofore
thought to be several miles away from
both the oil and gas belt Chanute
now has good, paying wells on both
sides of her. Several other companies
that have been waiting for results now
intend to commence prospecting at
once
J. w. Robson, president of the Kan
sas Cattlemen.s association, has in
formed Attorney General GODDARD that |
the cattlemen of the state expect the
suit now pending in the supreme court
to test the validity of the court of Wis
itation law to go on to finish, not
withstanding the recent readjustment |
of the rates by the railroads. Attorney
General GODDARD had heard that the at !
torney for the cattlemen, 7. f. Carver, |
had said that the readjustment carried |
with it dismissal of the case, and he
wrote to President Robson for direct |
information.
Frank Montgomery gives these
figures: Alaska is 1,131 miles from |
north to south, 1881 from east to west. |
Kansas is 200 miles from north to south
400 miles from east to west. Alaska |
cost 81 900, 900. Kansas cost practically !
nothing. Alaska has yielded in thirty
two years total of Sl62, $50, O0Oin furs. !
gold, fish, whaleb bone, and oil and wal
rus ivory. Kansas in the one year of |
1899 yielded in farm products, livestock
not included, S1G9,747,o ,o37. Alaska's
total gold product since its purchase
from Russia has been S4j. 200, 600. Kan
sas' Helpful Hen has il the same
length of time produced more than
double that sum.
Frank Cooper, of Jewell county, re-
cently bought 5000 head of sheep in
New Mexico. He drove them to Kan
sas, fed them a few months and dis
posed of them the other day at profit
of $1,000
Building associations are thinning
out somewhat, but there are - doing
an active business in the state, with |
more organizing.
A quarantine on dairy and breeding !
rattle has been established by Kansas |
against most of the eastern states. The |
idea is to keep tuberculosis out.
Money orders from the Philippines
reach Kansas postoffices quite often.
The helpful hen nets Lincoln county |
an income Of SIS, 900 a year The out
put of eggs aggregates two carloads a
week or lO4 carloads year. Each car
load contains 400 cases, which means
the laying, shipment and ultimately
the consumption of II, 500 cases, or J.
24s.0 dozen eggs. The average price
of eggs the year round is about G cents
a dozen, which means an annual in
come from Lincoln county hens of So,
O0O.
Butler county produced corn alone,
last year, amounting to nearly S6,O0O,-
600. Its lands are in great demand