The Chanute times., 1900-11-16
KANSAS ITEMS or INTEREST.

cording to the state superintendent
report, is 5O3,574.
Miss Molly Arnold, of Reading, has
been chosen as teacher in the public
schools of Las Vegas, N. NJ.
Rev. Baxter Waters, Of St. Louis
has accepted tue pastorate of the First
Christian church of Lawrence.
In one precinct in Wichita in which
about 500 votes were cast there was
less than half straight tickets
Chancellor Snow, OF Kansas Univer'
sity, has been compelled to take va.
cation on account of poor health.
Bids are to be opened on December
for the construction of the public
building at Kansas City, Kansas.
The largest hay barn in the state is
owned by j. R Lasswell, of Mayetta.
1t has capacity of 1900 tons of baled
hay.
Harry Griffith takes one of the Cali
fornia limited trains He has been a
long time conductor of the Topeka and
Kansas City plug.
Neodesha has experienced three
freshets, the last one making an island
of the town. None of the fords there
abouts were florida bic.
John s. Hobson, switch and signal
engineer of the Santa Fe, leaves that
company on December to take anoth-
er position in the east.
Steve Hopkins, of Ellsworth, recent
ly declined a position as paymaster's
clerk in the Philippines at $50 a month
with transportation thrown in.
Four members of Wichita club, all
of whom voted for Fremont in 1856,
voted 'or Clay in 1914, and one east his
first vote for Van Buren, in 1S40.
Burns, Marion county, has n mul-
berry switch on exhibition which is 9
feet inches long, and sweet potato
which weighs almost pounds.
The Eldridge house in Coffeyvile is
partially destroyed by fire; the damage
on building and furniture beirg esti-
mated at $500, covered by insurance.
Attorney General GODDARD is prepar-
ing his argument in the stockyards
case which will be reached by the Uni
ted States supreme court in December.
The Butler county district court con-
venes November 20, and soon thereafter
will be taken up the trial of Miss
Jessie Morrison, charged with murder.
George w. Owens, 9s graduate of
Kansas Agricultural college, expects to
go to Tago, West Africa, to establish
an agricultural school, in the employ
of the German government Owens is
a negro.
The fish commissioner has just in
formed Mayor Ross Of Wichita that he
had placed 2,4O0 fish in the Little Ar
kansas river in Riverside park on Octo-
Der 81. They were black bass, rock
bass, croppie and blue cat.
1t is told of Dickinson county man
that his children cast him off after Sc
curing his property and that one of
them works with the Salvation Army
and grand child is being educated
for missionary work in heather lands
A class in parliamentary law has
been organized in Campbell University,
Holton, Kansas, under the instruction
of Ars Brown, lawyer and a very
talented lady, who has been connected
with the university or number of
years.
Conductor Harry Edwards, of the
Union Pacific, had his right leg cut off
Us his train was pulling into North To
peka.
Trainmaster G. II. Sanders at New
ton, takes the place of trainmaster on
the Chicago division. He is succeeded
at Newton by R. d. Fowler. chief dis
patcher at ChIllicothe, Missouri.
Norman McGillivery, a junior en-
gineer in Kansas University, fell rs
feet from the waterworks standpipe.
One leg was broken and he was other
wise injured but not seriously.
&C. l. Short, who has for some time
been trainmaster on the Chicago divi-
sion has come back to his old home and
his old job in Topeka, as conductor of
the Santa Fe plug between Topeka and
Kansas City.
Manhattan is added to the list of
Kansas towns which provide resting
rooms with toilet conveniences and
literature where the country women
can comfortably wait for their men
folks to be ready to go home. In this
case the ladies of Manhattan have done
the providing.
The mill and elevator at Frederick
are burned. Loss, $4,000.
William Tweeddale, aged II. died at