The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1900-11-09

STANDS AT o,ovo.
Wichita has an old soldiers club
with ,00l members.
The registration Of lola is 1861 and
that of Winfield is 1873.
Thirteen insurance companies have
state agents in Topeka.
The union stock yards at Wichita
are to be paved with brick.
One man at McCunc has 10000 bush
els of apples for sale ut his orchard.
Work has begun on n $4,000 addi-
ton to Dold's packing house in Wichita.
Oil and gas have been struck at Peru.
The flow of oil is about 80 barrels n
day.
1t is reported that many wheat fields
will have to be pastured to prevent
jointing.
w. II. Sears, formerly private secre-
tary to Senator Harris, is doing Red
Cross work at Galveston.
Miss Lofty Garrison, of Fort Scott,
has been offered $500 week as leading
soprano in the Bostoniaus.
Through the parole system 90 boys
from the reform school were placed in
good homes in the last year.
Salaries and running expenses paid
out at the Hutchinson reformatory for
the month of October, amounted TO
s7,5s5.1j.
There were five thousand disappoint.
ed people who had gathered in Ottawa
to hear speakers that had been an
bounced but who did not come.
The two turtles from Logan county
which have reached Kansas University
were taken from formation which
reologists estimate as $4,000, 900, years
old
Superintendent Stillwell of the Rock
Island tells Wichita people that his
road needs and will build new freight
depot and extend its yards in that
city.
There had been shipped from Wame-
60 at last report 2j carloads of sweet
potatoes. 1t is predicted that there
will be as many more shipped before
the season closes.
1t would be very strange if the con-
stitutional amendment did not carry
at the election, as it was in both OF the
party platforms and urged by both
candidates for governor.
W. A. Van Voris of the State normal
has demonstrated that oxygen can be
supplied by the use of oxydized sodium
sufficient to sustain healthy life to
mouse sealed in u small jar.
The Topeka Y. w. C. A. is the only
city organization of the kind in the
state, all others being college organiza-
tions. The recent Y. w. c. A. conven-
ton made some plans for state work.
1t is said that there are 500 Mont
gomery county farmers who will re-
ceive free natural gas for heating and
lighting their homes, or its equivalent
as the gas is to be furnished to them
in exchange for leases to the gas COM
pany.
The county treasurers propose to
formulate statute which will cause a
all property to be assessed at its actual
value This is a job that has been tried
by somebody or other at every session
of the legislature for the past 90 years
and more.
The Farm department of Kansas
Agricultural college has finished up its
work in summer institutes, having con-
Quoted 121 with total attendance of
| sc. 900 people which is fully four times
as many people as has ever been
reached before in an entire year.
A farmer near Topeka who ordered
| off two boys was shot by one of the
boys, receiving a serious wound. The
bows are unknown.
Kansas has at least GO,OOO veterans,
of whom about 40, 900 receive pensions,
while the Grand Army of the Republic
has less than $4,000 members in the
state.
A horse and buggy was found floating
in the Neosho river in Coffey county
but there was no trace found of any
driver and no one has claimed the
rig.
Entomologist F. o. Popenoe, of Kan
sas Agricultural college, is in charge
of the inspection of Kansas nurseries
which is made necessary by laws of
other states which prevent shipment
of nursery stock without inspection.
Mcpherson county Mennonites pro-