The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1901-01-04
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

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filed in time for her to spend Christmas
at home.
A mutual burial association is new
organization in Wichita with 400 MEM
bers already.
Dodge City reports shortage OF
coal, extending to about all of the
surrounding towns.
Stevens county man has shipped
$500 pounds of watermelon seed to an
eastern seed house.
Wichita women have arranged for
iron watering troughs at twenty of the
entrances to the city.
The two girls who tried to burn the
Beloit reform school have been dis
missed and sent home.
Superintendent of Machinery of the
Santa Fe Player denies the statement
that he intends to resign.
John Ryan, of Florence, lost so tons
of hay by fire, started by a locomotive
on the El Dorado branch.
Newspaper clippings in regard to
prominent Kansans are preserved by
the state Historical society.
During the past two years five Kan
sas banks have failed and all of them
owe depositors only $500.
There are now nearing completion in
Columbus, a county high school and a
new Jail and sheriif's residence.
The Santa Fe paid taxes in Franklin
county, the other day, of $16,34o. BY
paying all the rebate was $l19,21.
The attorney general tells Warden
Tomlinson, of the Kansas penitentiary,
that he has the right to offer reward
for the capture of convict who has
been conditionally pardoned and has
broken his parole.
C. w. Goodlander has written his
tory of Fort Scott, which is on sale at
the Goodlander hotel, the Goodlander
II, the Goodlander bank, the Good
lander lumber yard and at Mayor
Goodlanders office.
Mandamus from the federal court
has been served upon the city of Med
icine Lodge, to compel levy to pay
S3,7OO of interest. The people say
that it is not possible to secure such
sum by special levy.
There is movement to repeal the
law providing for the organization OF
private banks. There are now 55 of
them, and under the proposed legisla-
ton they will be compelled to incor-
porate as state or national banks.
The cook of the Copeland hotel in
Topeka refused to give waiter plate
of corned beef hash for breakfast and
all the walters went on a strike. Din
ner was somewhat delayed before the
places of the walters were all filled.
The penitentiary board will ask for
telephone and fire alarm protection
They also favor giving discharged pris-
oners better clothing. The binding
Irvine plant, they say, should be made
separate institution with superin-
tendent
Bank Commissioner Brcidcnthal says
that from present indications state
banks will continue to be the favorites
with Kansas people and if changes
which experience suggests are neces-
sary, are made in our state law from
time to time, there is no reason why
Kansas should not build up system
of state banks superior to any yet es-.
tablished.
viii Weaver, who went to the Phil
ippines from Nemaha county, married |
a Japanese girl and is now keeping
hotel in Manila.
The big artificial lake, in Barton
county, between Great Bend and Hois-
ington, is reality at last The water
was turned on Thursday, and the big
basin is now filling up. The basin is
eight miles long aud three miles wide
and when filled will be the largest
body o. water in Kansas. 1t will be
used to feed three big irrigation bitches
and also for a summer resort.
The Lutheran church of Abilene now
has a 81 500 pipe organ.
Frank Rockefeller. the Standard Oil
magnate, told friends in Wichita that
he expected to spend his declining
years on or near his ranch in Kiowa
and Clark counties. He is in love with
the climate of southern Kansas. His
residence at the ranch is a large mod
ern building. erected with comfort |
rather than luxury in view. 1t is sup
piled with hot and cold water, and |
with gas manufactured on the prem
Uses
The Fort Scott fax tow factory is
now operating on full time. after be-
ing idle for four years. A large force
is employed. The factory was idle