The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1900-01-05
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

single Osborne dealer amounted to ID,
600 pounds; all dressed.
The cost of holding the elections IL
SedgwiclS county averaged thirteen anc
seven-tenths cents for each voter.
Quite number of the young mer
who were members of the Twentieth
Kansas are applying for pensions.
The students of the State Normal are
agitating the matter of a change of the
weekly holiday from Saturday to Mon
day.
Farmers Institute has just closed
at Wellesville. 1t was the seventh an
nual meeting there and was well at
tended.
Frank Doster, the populist chief JUS
tice of the supreme court, is credited
with being the best Shakesperian schol-
ar in the state house.
The roads in Southern Kansas are
Just now worse than they have ever
been before. The Oldest inhabitant is
mired and hasn't word to say.
Ex-Governor Charles Foster, of Ohio,
has large farm in Cherokee county.
Recently he visited Columbus and was
entered by the leading citizens.
The protracted meeting at the Chris
tan church in Jewell City conducted
by the Topeka evangelist, Mrs. Clara
II. Hazelrigg, resulted in fifty addi-
tions.
Stillwell, the Kansas City man who
built the Pittsburg and Gulf railroad,
has now resigned as president of the
Guardian company, the trust company
behind the P & G.
L. C. Kirby, proprietor of hotel at
Perry, shot and killed g. A. Foley, and
riding to Oskaloosa surrendered to the
sheriff. Kirby asserts the deed man
had ruined his daughter. %
The first term of district court was
held in Salina county in 1886. Since
that date 264 divorces have been grant
ed, and 125 divorce suits have been
commenced and abandoned. There
was one divorce in 1866, and the high
est number for any year was nineteen
IN 1883.
Another encouraging sign in Kansas:
EttnI n n
number of towns. In flush times the
Kansan abandons the old wash tub in
the kitchen for % cent dip in a por-
celain lined affair down town, with
water enough at hand to drown II
whale.
A Kansas girl, Miss Evelyn Louise
Lease, won prize at the New York
city Normal school on three act orig
inal drama used at the annual Christ
mas entertainment at the school. There
were large number of manuscripts
submitted from which the prize drama
was chosen.
Ten new engines of the simple con-
solidated type will soon be turned out
of the Santa Fe shops in Topeka.
These engines will be used in freight
service and are what are known as
"pushers" especially useful on heavy
grades. Work has already commenced
on the order. and the engines will be
finished with haste. The cylinders of
the engines will be 21X34 inches, and
the wheels will measure 81 inches over
the tires The boiler will be so inches.
The weight of engines on drivers will
be 5000 pounds, and on truck will be
20 900 pounds, making about a 9s ton
engine when in working order.
o. E. Pritchett, brakeman on the
Rock Island road, was run over at Man
kato, and had both legs cut off. He
died a few hours afterward.
In Elk county is Russian Mennonite
who has reached the age of "a. He
came from Russia in 1875 with twelve
children, the progeny of his first wife.
Shol thy after arriving in Kansas he
was married again, and thirteen more
children have come to join the family.
All of the twenty-five are alive and live
with the old man or in the neighbor.
hood
During the smallpox scare in Oswego,
the health board made an order re-
quiring the public school children to
be vaccinated. Two Oswego phys
clans presented bills to the county for
vaccinating the children. The com
missioners felt and so expressed them
selves that while the county might be
made to pay the cost of feeding the
smallpox patients, on the ground that
they were paupers, yet they would be
blf.nled if they paid oswego's debts
with the county's money. Hence these
accounts were rejected.
In some of the western counties the
railroads pay more than half the taxes
and have always done so.
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