The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1900-02-23
KANSAS ITEMS or INTEREST.

A South Haven liveryman has lost
two teams of horses by theft.
The Santa Fe has transferred five
Grain crews from Topeka to Argentine
The Highups of the Santa Fe are on
an inspection tour of Che road west o.
Topeka.
The sheriff of Clay county shot and
killed "Red" Hawkins, a highway rob-
Der by getting the drop on him.
A site for the Cherokee county high
school has been located and the board
thinks the school will be ready for rse
by September 1st
The state treasury was about TO DC
swamped by the amount of Quantreli
raid scrip and the treasurer has quit
receiving it for taxes.
George A. Hancock, master mechanic
of the Santa Fe has been appointed
superintendent of machinery of the st.
Louis and San Francisco.
Window had church social, and the
social used gasoline stove, and the
stove started fire and the fire en-
dangered the whole town.
Three lawsuits have grown, in Ne
maha county, from the planting OF
mischief seed by school boys. One OF
the boys was ridden on rail.
Kansas and Oklahoma mill owners
held meeting in Kansas City to de
wise means of raising the standard OF
hard wheat raised IN their sections
The supreme court has decided that
the law of 1897 requiring railroads to
give one return pass for each carload
of stock shipped is not valid but void.
DR.. T. A. Aderhold, graduate of
the Topeka Capital Carrier gang, and
at the same time, of Washburn college,
has gone to be surgeon in the Boer
army, with the rank of captain.
Major John B. Hall, an old resident
of Paola, Kentuckian, has shot him
self. He left letter to the coroner
saying that this would be the first time
he ever shot revolver in his life.
State Superintendent Nelson esti-
mates that at nearly 2,4o0 different
places in Kansas, if schools are counted,
there were public celebrations of the
DIST anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's
birth.
Express messengers and agents of
the Rock Island have a movement to
Climb together and start rancho. Forty
men propose to invest 5000 each and
put $40 a month each into an expense
fund.
A special collector of delinquent
personal property taxes in Shawnee
county has run against many tax re-
ceipts in the hands of people who APP
pear as delinquent on the treasurers
books.
A Wichita special policeman was
watching a building that had been
tempered with. He saw some one
there and gave chase; dropped his re-
volver which went off sending bullet
through his leg.
The monthly report of Warden Tom
4hn t0t tnr-
shows the receipts for the Lansing
prison for January to have been $751;
$40, and the expenses S13, IA, leaving
a surplus Of S5,4O2.
The farmers of Kansas are pleased
over the coming of the storm. No
damage to stock has resulted, and the
ground will be placed in fine condition
for the spring blowing. The ground
was dry, and moisture was badly need
ed.
Reno county farmers, some of them,
grow two crops of potatoes on the same
land. Thomas Yerkes marketed his
second crop in January and February.
Rural free delivery is spreading
rapidly in Kansas. On the 18th of
March service on a 25-mile route run
ming out of Lawrence will be COM
menced.
AS soon as Nellie George of Yelling
ton became of age she brought suit
against her stepfather for $4,000 dam
ages, charging him with having beaten
bruised and disabled her.
Shawnee county will have the largest
delegation in the republican state con-
vention-3l. Wyandotte comes second
with %, and Sedgwick third with 81.
n. Kelley, of Efingham received a
5000 check from the National Tribune
OF Washington. 1t was the capital
prize of a guessing contest put up by
that paper.
1t is becoming pretty general senti-
ment that there is no other way to
Improve the moral tendencies of the
state reform school boys except by
giving them something to do.
Liberal is now connected with Haas