The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1900-05-11
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.
KANS.

In Topeka in April.
A traction engine is used in Ottaw;
to pull the road grader.
The graduating class in the For
Scott high school has six boys and II
girls.
Captain Clad Hamilton, of the TWEEN
tieth Kansas, has been appointed audit
or of Shawnee county.
The Kansas State Social Science Fed
GRAFTON held three days meeting il
Winfield, beginning May /.
During a recent storm at Fort Scot
lightning damaged the Catholic church
and several other buildings.
VIM. Brown, a Dickinson county
farmer, stepped on rusty nail and
died of lockj jaw within week.
Work on sinking a new coal mine
has commenced between Leavenworth
and the penitentiary at Lansing.
Rev. J. c. Pratt, aged Sc, is dead.
He had lived in Kansas since 1887, COM
ing then as Baptist missionary.
: Evelyn Louise Lease, late of Wichita,
won the prize at the annual debate in
the Normal college in New York.
The board of education of Emporia
has let contracts for the new school
house, amounting to about Sl1, 200.
One trainload of cattle have reached
the pastures of Wabaunsee county and
10000 are expected there by May 10.
Seven Germans of Greenwood county
have filed the required affidavits to ex-
empt them from bearing arms and from
all military duty.
VIM. NJ. Kilbure, Reno county
farmer, has an automobile which he
uses in his trips to town. tits assessed
as being worth 5000.
The postmasters of Kansas will hold
a convention in Topeka May 81 to %;
its object being the betterment of the
postal service in this state.
The Santa Fe in putting down deep
well at Lakin, found two-foot vein of
bituminous coal at depth of 100 feet;
considerable oil appeared before strik
ing the coal.
State Labor Commissioner johnson
went to Lawrence and induced con-
tractors for work at Kansas University
to observe the eight hour law without
being prosecuted.
On Memorial Day, Chester Long will
deliver an address at Gettysburg; Cal
derhead one at Annapolis; and Charles
Curtis one at national cemetery in
the District of Columbia.
The Arkansas rivers second freshet
reached Kansas on April 80. The heavy
rains in Colorado found Kansas wet
and the water moves along. Bridges
were said to be in danger.
Kansas has 100000 acres planted in
crops that are practically unknown
in the states east of the Missouri river.
These crops are: Kafr corn, $4,000
acres; fodder sorghums, 449,0 acres;
alfalfa, 27s, 900 acres.
A farmer near Guelph, Cowley coun-
ty, lost cows and calves from hydro
phobia. Stock in the neighborhood
which are supposed to have been bitten
have been quarantined. Dogs were
killed by the wholesale.
Stillwell, the promoter general of big
enterprises, has taken charge of the
completion of the big lake in Barton
county When completed, together
with its outlet irrigation bitches, it
will give water to crops in several
counties.
Lee Monroe is the presiding judge in
Wallace county; his father, Cyrus Mon
roe has suit against the county for
money advanced on county scrip and
his wife, Mrs. Lily Day Monroe, is the
attorney for the father; all constituting
a queer case.
Secretary L. ]. Anderson has secured
free transportation from the railroads
from Buffalo and Pittsburg to the sea
board for all the Kansas corn which is
being given for starving India. He
expects to secure free rate from Chi
,cago and perhaps from Kansas City.
Judge Charles Chadwick, who lived
in Lawrence since 1887, died last week
He was the first attorney general of
Kansas.
The state board of health requires
probate judges to record answers to
a long list of questions from applicants
for marriage licenses.
A number of changes will occur in
the courses at Washburn college next
year. The principal ones will be the
addition of year in both French and
German making each of these courses.
four years long.
Dickinson comfy is the first to Or
ganize lodge of the new farmers Or