The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1900-02-09

chants.
Deputy U. S. marsh al Trigg caugh
silver dollar counterfeiter in Smitl
county.
Arrangements are about completed
for an electric car line from Olathe t.
Kansas City.
Lead is said to have been discovered
in Sumner county. A company has
been formed to sink shaft.
The Rock Island has received 16 new
and elegant coaches. The seats are
said to be exceptionally comfortable.
Workmen are fitting up a new room
in the west wing of the state house for
the plants collected by the Academy OF
Science.
The Hackney block, which cost Hon.
Bill Hackney $125, 900 to build, is de-
stroyed by fire. 1t is quite a loss to
Winfield.
Employees of the Santa Fe who wish
to obtain transportation must now
make application to the division super
intendent.
Wichita is to have large grocery
brokerage firm. 1t represents the
leading manufacturing firms of the
country.
The senate committee on public lands
favors the bill to give the Fort Hays
reservation to Kansas for educational
purposes.
1t is said that another milling COM
pany is being organized for the purpose
of grinding gold out of the shale along
the Smoky.
Nothing has grown in Kansas in the
last year like the free library sentiment.
No less than twenty towns are discns-
sing the plan.
The ''fast mail" made the run, re.
Gently, from Empora to Newton, dis
tance of 70 miles, in 72 minutes
running time.
An ex-probate judge of Logan county
is charged with forging the names Of
two men to affidavits in proving up on
some government land.
The amount of real estate mortgages
in Sedgwick county filed in January
was S64, 931.3 80, while releases footed
up total of $1O6, 524.4 40.
Superintendent Frank Nelson has
announced three series of dates for
normal institutes, viz: Ending June
go, July 81 and August "a.
Thirty-eight merchants of Abilene
have signed an agreement to close their
stores at $3.50 for seven months, COM
with February /.
Abilene is cutting in on the Kansas
City long distance telephone by way OF
Harrington. The telephone is bring"
ing the towns of Kansas into close
relations
The Mound City Republic says that
''The Twentieth Kansas" book by
Mrs. Adelaide Reese, of Mound City, is
a good seller A second edition has
been printed.
Treasury drafts for $40, 900 have been
received by U. s. Attorney Lambert to
exchange for the site for the federal
building in Kansas City, Kas., as soon
as he approves the title,
The farm department of the Kansas
A agricultural college is now handling
fifteen classes, with total enrolment |
If $50 students. Sixty-four students
ire taking butter-making, and twenty
cheese making.
The Rock Island railroad will soon
establish reading room at Goodland,
KAN, for the benefit of its employees.
Suitable quarters will be fixed up where
he trainmen and other employees of
he road may go to spend their spare
line in reading or in resting.
A stock company with capital of
bout $1,000, has been organized at
Williamsburg, for the purpose of bor-
ng for gas or oil. Williamsburg is en-
husiastic over the prospect
There are now building at the Santa
Fe shops in Topeka ten new all steel
ballast cars of $4,000 pounds capacity.
These cars will be of standard size,
which means alength of 40 feet. These
ars will be the first steel cars 20 be
,uilt at the Topeka shops and their
is naturally looked forward
o with much interest.
Implement dealers of Kansas have
eceived quotations on binding Irvine
It rate 25 per cent lower than few
lays ago.
Governor Stanley will establish
lone finding department at the reform
chool and state reformatory. Every
lime home is found for boy he will