The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1901-05-03
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Arrangements are being maze 10
manufacture soda ash at Hutchinson,
Baker University is not only out of
debt but has $50, 900 for added equip
ments and new buildings.
The athletic field at Paramount col
lege is $50 by as feet and is enclosed
by tight fence eight feet high.
Secretary Coburn is the author of
book on alfalfa which is being pub
lished by the Orange Judd company.
Topeka has had 9li fires in the past
year; of which 40 were incendiary, ac-
cording to the opinion of the fire chief.
Judge Hazen has hard knot to I'm
ravel and has taken time to make up
his decision on the mayoralty contest
in Topeka.
Agents for the purchase of cavalry
horses for the British army visited
Wichita making selections. They want
1000 of them.
Senator Burton will not interfere
in the appointment of postmasters in
Kansas except in the Third congress
sional district.
The general store at Ransomville,
Franklin county, was looted of much
goods. The robbery was done in the
night. No clue.
Mrs. Wiley Trother, aged %, of
Hutchinson, made attempts to take
her own life; first with aconite and
second with a razor.
Prof. Chrisman, of the Emporia Nor
NAL failed in reelection to his position
for the reason that in his lectures he
argues that man never loves.
j. NJ Whitaker. the Labette county
cattleman came back from Mexico to
attend his daughters wedding and will
remain at his home at Montana.
That big well made at Greensburg in
boom days still stands although closed
up. 1t is more than one hundred feet
deep and and twenty-eight feet in dia-
meter and will stand while time lasts:
barring earthquakes.
The Union Pacific railroad company
has filed an application to increase its
capital stock from $196, 900, 900 one mil
lion dollars more. The fling fee is the
largest ever received by the state of
Kansas, being $40, 200.
The board of railroad commissioners
propose to personally investigate every
complaint of any Importance. They
will go to the town where the COM
plant is made to save the expense of
bringing witnesses to Topeka.
Samuel Stout, of Severance has added
to his farm tract adjoining which he
has bought of Samuel Ryan. He now
owns sixteen quarter sections in one
body. John Ripley, living in the same
vicinity, has still larger farm.
H. A. Parker, first vice president
and general manager, and w. E. Dau-
chy, general engineer of the Rock Isl
and, are on a trip of inspection be-
tween Chicago and Fort Worth. They
worked through Kansas. entering the
state on the 22nd of April.
VIM. Edwards, of Jewell county,
started for Hot Springs to recruit his
health. On his way he switched into
the Kansas City stockyards and stumb-
led on to good bargains, as he believed.
At any rate he bought fine jack; also
carload of horses which caught his
attention. While the horses were be-
ing loaded he saw thirteen Belgian
hares and took the lot. By the time
he reached home he was as we'll as he
well as he ever was in his life.
The women members of the churches
of Topeka for colored people are start
ing a movement for colored orphans
home.
Joseph CLANCY, near Burns, Marion
county, was run over and killed while
attempting to stop runaway team
with two women in the buggy. His
back was broken.
The State Sunday School association
is to meet in Topeka on May 14-lG.
The program for the meeting will be
printed by the commercial club. The
association includes all denominations.
The tax commissioner of the Frisco
line starts on Sunday after church
with all the state officers, taking them
to Arkansas on fishing excursion.
The sgatite works near Mulvane
have suspended operations because the
raw material near the surface is ex-
hausted, that is near enough to be
worked proiitably.
Waverley suffered from a fire on
April 90, which destroyed a millinery
store, two restaurants, a feed store and
the office of the Waverley Gazette. bos:
mostly covered by insurance.
Sa aries of certain of the city officer.
in Wichita have been fixed as follows
Mayor, $1,000; city attorney, $1,000
chief of police, $1,000; fire marshal