The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1900-12-14
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Emporia and Lyon county will vote
on the Orient railroad bonds on Decem-
Der 20.
Shorthorns worth $1,000 each live
high on NJ. A. Lows farm in Brown
county.
There is among the cadets at the
Salina military school youth from
Havana.
The organization of cooperative
store is talked about, to be installed in
Garden City.
Large quantities of shelled corn in
100 pound sacks, is being shipped from
Kansas to Cuba.
The number of books relating to
Kansas, published since 1854, is @@4;
about six year.
Out of the ten games played by the
Haskell Indian team the young braves
lost but one game.
Wichita packers are paying close to
Kansas City markets for hogs and do
not get all they want.
1t is said that the Missouri Pacific
and the Burlington railroads will sink
coal shafts at Atchison.
The Santa Fe is expanding over So
900 in fitting up reading rooms for its
employees at Dodge City.
Rev S. S. Estey, pastor of the Presby-
terrain church of independence, has ac-
cepted a call from Salina.
The first count of the proceeds of
charity badges sold by Wichita ladies
was $3.50 with more to come in.
VIM. Il. Miller, of Kansas, has been
given position in the copyright divi-
sion of the congressional library.
Farmers about Cedarvale were har-
vesting their fourth crop of alfalfa
during the last week in November.
Clay Center is to have a broom fac
tory in operation by the first Of jan
uary,which will employ thirty men.
j. NJ. McClain, of Syracuse, delivered
to Coulter & Hatcher, of Finney county,
30 mules, to be placed on their ranch.
Fire did $4,000 worth of damage to
the Nicholson smelter in lola. 1t was
caused by putting ore in bins while it
was too hot.
Fifteen graduates of Kansas Univer-
sity were elected November to office;
five to the legislature, one probate
judge, one clerk of court and eight as
county attorneys.
The governor has called special
election on January s, in one Of the
Shawnee county Legislative districts
for the election of a successor to Repre-
sentative Elect Stafford, deceased.
Three of the justices of the supreme
court have rooms assigned them on the
second floor of the south wing OF the
state house, and the four new justices
will occupy rooms on the third floor.
At the last sale of the Mania titan
Livestock and Sales company there
were representatives from all the lead
ing Kansas City commission firms and |
many buyers from neighboring towns.
The attendance upon the murder
a.; 80 L =
daily crowded with women. The men
of the town say they get few meals at
home Interest in that trial is extern
sive throughout the state.
A postoffice inspector recently re-
ported the Topeka postotfice unclean
and a new custodian has been appoint
ed. The work upon the new addition
and the changes in the building was
the cause of accumulated dirt.
Frank D. Brooks, of Lawrence, is
vice consul, now acting consul, at
Smyrna, the Turkish port visited by
the battleship Kentucky.
Near Kirwin Mrs. Robert Williamson
fell down deep well with child. A
rope was lowered and the mother tied
her child to it and its life was saved.
Mrs. Williamson then fixed the rope
about her body and was drawn out
1t was then found that both her legs
were broken, one of them twice, three
ribs were broken and the breast bone
was crushed.
The Dodge City commercial club has
requested the governor to recommend |
to the Legislature "as large an appro-
priation as will enable Kansas to show
herself as she is-the most promising |
star in the Union," at the 1904 exposi-
ton.
Captain Chas. Riley. who recently |
died at his home in Saline county, was |
a sailor in his youth. lie was a regular
soldier before the civil war, and was
one of Sheridan's body guard on his
famous ride from Winchester. Ee was
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