The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1900-07-06
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

will meet in Wichita July 6.
Harvesting was pretty generally
pushed along on Sunday June "a.
Alfred ]. Boyd fell from freigh
car near Leavenworth and was grounc
to pieces.
There are 9,sOs school teachers in
Kansas and almost two-thirds of these
are young women.
Both of the young women of Ell Do
RADIO who fought with a razor, were i'm
proving on June 20.
Mrs. Jake Maidin, of Rose Hill. But.
Ter county, has been left $4,000 by a
relative in the east.
Erwin Moore, aged 10, was drowned
in the Arkansas river, near Arkansas
City, while bathing.
John Dean, of Sumner county, visit
ed the county seat last week for the
first time in five years.
Colonel Massey, Miami county
farmer, lost half of his 1850 chickens
in one night, by theft.
A loss of $500 by fire occurred in
the burning of general store at Lam
caster, Atchison county.
Miss Mary Morrill,, niece of Governor
are in danger in China.
The Arkansas Valley Spiritual asso-
citation will hold its session at Island
Park, Winfield, July III.
The Rock Islands Horton shops are
at work upon an order of 500 box cars,
to be turned out by August 1.
Eight teachers in Paramount college,
Wichita, have given $500 cash toward
the proposed endowment fund.
Thirty-one per cent of the 1910 APP
plicants for teachers certificates in the
state, failed in the examinations
A Montgomery county farmer says
that hogs like fresh cut hedge trim
mings and that it is good for the hogs.
Cheese got cheaper and some cream
cries cut the price for milk, and some
farmers cut the supply of the lacteal
fluid.
Frank Brown and wife, who went
as missionaries to China from Fort
Scott, are the subject of deep interest
just now.
Atchison has purchased the last year,
S4,s5o worth of new fire apparatus,
making s1O,6O5 purchased in the last
two years.
The Kansas millers have pretty gen.
orally called in their purchasing agents
until the market settles down to a more
firm basis.
Wichita sporting goods dealers have
ordered carload of ammunition. The
fine prospects for field sports induced
this action.
The populist national committee in
session at Kansas City has $50 mem
bers; three from Kansas-Simpson,
Ridgeway and Breidenthal
The summer term of the state nor
NAL school has 300 teachers in attend
ance and more are expected after the
close of the county institutes.
The state school fund holds local
Kansas bonds amounting to Sc, 6o1, 1868.
Of this $3.50, 900 is in bonds of the state,
the rest of counties and school dis
tricts.
The Wichita city council are talking |
about destroying the female cotton
wood trees in that city. They have
been q greater nuisance than usual
this summer.
William Gorham, near Russell, has |
1000 acres of wheat, from which he ex-
poets to harvest 100, 900 bushels
A Dickinson county farmer few |
weeks ago contracted his wheat at so
cents bushel. He now figures that
he lost 5000.
Milt Shields, of Saline county, last
year purchased quarter section for |
S2,40o. He sowed 100 acres of it to |
wheat, rented another so acres and |
put that in wheat, and has taken this
year enough wheat from both to pay
for his farm.
prof. E. R. Nichols has been elected |
president of Kansas Agricultural COL
lege. He has been professor in that |
college for ten years, and acting presi-
dent since Thomas E. Will was dismis-
sed.
The Brotherhood of Locomotive En-
CHEERS of Labette county, was or
ganized in 1874 and is the Oldest rail-
road brotherhood in the state.
Dick Fink, who lives on the Saline
river near Hays City, has 600 turkeys
and moves his herd from one farm to
another to clear them of grasshoppers.
The Chicago Tribune caused the back
action on the booming wheat prices by
long article on the immensely of the