The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1900-01-26
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

cordia.
Two freight trains on the Rock Is
land road collided at Denton, neal
Troy, Kan, and half dozen cars were
derailed.
At the third exhibit of the Garden
City Poultry association there were
300 fowls entered, embracing all the
leading vrrieties.
A good many Kansas towns are pay
ing attention to parks. Many of those
that have been arranged are not very
big, but are good to see.
J. w. Egloff, owner and proprietor
of the Linn county roller mills OF
Mound City, committed suicide by
shooting himself in the head.
j. X. Creighton, of Leavenworth has
been appointed chef clerk of the quar-
termaster at Santiago, Cuba, and sailed
from New York, January IT,
During December the travel in Kan
sas was unprecedented. This month it
fell off suddenly and a great number
of trainmen are being laid off.
Lost Springs, Marion county, has
about $50 people and every person in
the town is teetotaler. Now there is
a strong movement against tobacco.
There are at least seven nationalities
represented by the proprietor and en-
ployes of one store in North Topeka.
The nationalities are American, Eng
lish, French, German, Scotch, Irish and
African.
Cowley and Harper counties failed to
collect taxes against railroads and now
ask the state to bear its proportion of
the amount. The state board of equal
ization finds no authority TO act in the
premises.
1.-The Humboldt wooden mill" says
the Union, chad the contract for ma
king wooden goods-blankets, etc. =
for the state penitentiary for several
years, and until the mill was discon-
tinued in 1890.
The Kansas City Live Stock exchange
is finding fault, emphatically, about
stock being abused during shipment.
They say that the value of many ami
mails is reduced by inhuman beating
and prodding.
j. w. Milne, of Putnam, Kas., has
been reelected superintendent of the
state poultry show for next year. The
association made him present this
year of chair in recognition of his
efficient services.
A deputy sheriff at ottawa smashed
q masher in the face instead of taking
him in, "for the sake of the girls" He
also punished the Washers companion
for interposing. That deputy ought to
be promoted sure.
Material for the new street railway
is arriving in Wichita. The first re-
ceived was a carload of spikes, the rails
and boilers for the power house is
next. All material will arrive shortly
and hundred men be put to work.
The state board of agriculture has
appointed the following officers: Geo
Haworth, Lawrence;
G. P. Grimsley, Topeka. Entomolo-
gists-F. H. Snow, Lawrence; S. j.
Hunter, Lawrence; E. A. Popenoe, To-
peka. Meteorological. T. Lovewell
and T. B. Jennings, Topeka. Botan-
ists-L. e. Sayrer, Lawrence; A. s.
Hitchcock, Manhattan. Chemists-E.
H. S. Bailey, Lawrence; j. 7. Willard,
Manhattan. Veterinarian-Pau Fis-
cher, Manhattan.
Half the school houses snd a number
of residences in Sedgwick county have
been looted recently and the stuff
brought to Wichita, where j. F. Ingram
junk dealer, sold them. Ingram is
in Jail on q charge of being the finan-
cial agent of the gang.
Insurance Superintendent Church
thinks it is possible that certain cities
of Kansas whose fire departments are
entitled to yearly cash receipt for the
use of the members, are failing to get
their money by reason of oversight or
lack of information.
w. A. Hopper, of Rocks county, came
there few years ago with one mare as
his only capital. He worked out with
farmers and saved his money. He now
owns 400 acres of land, well stocked,
with good buildings, including barn
sixty feet square.
Albert Latham, who for more than
twenty years has been the travelling
representative in this state of the Sim
mons Hardware company, of st. Louis,
is dead. Mr.. Latham was one of the
most widely known and popular travel
ing men in Kansas.
Several cases of smallpox have de-
veloped in the southern part of Leav-
enworth. and as a result the officers of
the National Soldiers home have de-
cided to establish n strict quarantine.