The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1901-09-06
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

10th In population 10 loth'
Armour and Co.'S poultry house at
Clay Center is damaged 5000 by fire.
Edward Berry has served thirteen
terms as county attorney in Marshall
county.
Semi-monthly pay days at the fac
tories and smelters at lola call for $40
900 each time.
The Standard oil company has placed
tanks at Alma for supplying all of Wa
baunsee county.
The school population of Topeka in
creased % in the past year. According
to the school census just completed the
total school population is l1,55o
Prairie chickens are more plentiful
than usual in Western Kansas and pas
ties from eastern cities are quite fire.
.quent in counties along the Union Pa
,cific.
Fourteen of the l54 school district
clerks of the state failed to re
port the tax levy to the county clerks
before Aug rs, the limit and are liable
to fine.
Rains continue plentiful in Decatur
county and some corn will make thirty
bushels to the acre. Andrew Simpson
has $50 acres that he thinks will bring
L nOn I,,eba1c
The Santa Fe let the contract for
building their new pattern house IN
Topeka, for $4,000. 1t is to be 40 by 10
feet. three stories high, of brick, and
well protected against fire
Hereafter in Kansas under the new
election law, when a ballot is not
marked according to law 1T will be
thrown out, whether it shows the i'm
tention of the voter or not
BENZ. Wallack, of Etiingham, sixteen
years ago gave his eight children each
ST 900 in money, and since has given
them various sums each year. Last
week he gave each one $500.
Allen n. Cameron, of Kansas, has
been appointed marshal of the United
States consular court at l1ankau, China.
He went from Lawrence as mission
airy to China several years ago
Mat Bennan, bachelor of Garden
City, who lived alone, was found dead
There were evidences or murder. On
the last day he was down town it was
known that he had 500 which has not
been found.
Ernest brewers, of Bently- marketed
a load of alfalfa seed which he sold for
$361.6 He says that one acre of his
alfalfa produced is bushels of seed,
which breaks the record. That acres
seed brought sol.
The bridal dress worn by Miss Clara
S. Glenn. of Wichita, was made entirely
of a cloth manufactured in the Philip
pines from banana fiber. She went to
Manila with her sister, the wife of
Major w. II. Bishop, of Salina.
In Ellsworth county, where there are
several consolidated school districts the
board hires man to gather the pupils
who live two miles or more from the
school, and the people are pleased as it
gives them the benefit of graded schools.
Thirty neighbors, after the death of
G. w. Graham, of Cowley county, cut
the hay on the Graham farm and
stacked it, put the corn in the shock,
threshed the oats; all without charge
and because the crops needed attention
with no one to give it.
It is a truth worth hammering at
that Kansas farmers could raise just as
many and just as good or better pOta-
toes as Colorado if they would irrigate.
A Russell county paper publishes as
a fact that man who is worth 5000
tried TO work the county into paying
the costs of sending his wife to the in
sane
The steel strike in the east is respon-
sible for delays in the completion of
obout 500, 900 worth of improvements in
additions to the Rock Island shops at
Horton.
The first Sunday of the camp meeting
ut Riverside park, Wichita, the street
car company counted their passengers
after 4 o'clock and there were 2,1s5.
An excellent quality of water-white
oil is said to be produced from the Kan
sas petroleum. During 1900 thirty
eight producing wells were drilled and
fourteen old wells abandoned. making
100 productive oil wells in Kansas at
the close of the last year. Five dry
holes were drilled during the year
making the total number completed
AZ.
Two boys rented 30 acres of1and near
De Soto and planted it to potatoes.
Their sales reach about 81 ,O5O. 1t is
estimated That if they had held for a
later market their returns would have
been "a, 900 or s125 an acre.