The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1901-12-20
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

near Topeka, erected during boom
times, is burned.
L. d. McKeever, of Topeka, has been
appointed assistant U. S. district attor-
ney, District of Kansas.
A Topeka syndicate has leased lands
near Mulhall, Oklahoma, for the pur-
pose of producing gas and oil.
Douglas county is receiving propo-
sails for site upon which to build an
$50, 900 court house in Lawrence.
A man supposed to be Edward ID,
Mccoy, laid down before train at
Wilmot, Kansas, and was killed.
Representative Bowersock, of Kan
sas, was member of the committee on
eulogies to the late President McKin-
ley.
During five years ending with 1900
Kansas harvested S37s, 433, 347 worth of
wheat and corn, outranking all other
states.
A branch of the Southern Stock and
Grain Company, of St. Louis, at Salina
closed on account of the failure of the
company. Several Salina traders may
be losers.
Garden City, KS, furnishes about all
of the employees of the Indian agency
at White Rocks, Utah. H. p. Myton,
of Garden City, is the Indian agent at
White Rocks.
Ex-U. S. Senator Martins long time
home in Topeka, occupying nine lots
facing the state capitol, has been sold
for $4,000. 1t is proposed to place
city school on this property.
Nell Adams, young farmer of Smith
county, killed himself few weeks
after his marriage. He was interested
in a contested will and was respondent
over the will being broken in court.
Joseph L. Speer, pioneer of Kansas
who has lived at Chandler, o. T., is
dead. He was killed by the wagon he
was riding in running off bridge.
The remains were brought to Topeka.
Prof. Ernest Fahrig, scientist of
Philadelphia, has made several tests
and promises that the Trego shale of
Western Kansas will turn out more
than So ton in gold and silver and
give profit.
Jas. Higgins, Santa Fe brakeman,
who lost both legs in an accident has
been offered by the railroad company
to teach him telegraphy and give him
life long job, also pair of cork legs
He has accepted the offer.
The state board of charities turned
down all bids to supply the state in
situations with -four, on account of the
advanced prices. Contracts for all
other supplies were awarded. They
were distributed about equally among
Topeka, Salina, Leavenworth, Atchison
and Wichita houses and the agents of
Kansas City houses.
Chief Justice Doster, acting as arbi-
traitor between the coal operators and
the miners in the Pittsburg district,
decides for the miners. The dispute
was over the meaning of the phrase in
their contract double shifted entries"
the operators claiming that it meant
working men in alternate shifts; the
miners that it meant working two men
in one entry. Judge Doster said that
the first construction was technically
correct, yet by common use of it about
the mines it had become recognized as
meaning what the miners contend.
The town of Moran, over towards
Fort Scott, on the Missouri Pacific, has
women in several public positions, in
Guiding a school teacher, a telegraph
operator, postmistress, a rural mail
carrier and the pastor of the only
church in the village.
The state school fund commissioners
have at last compromised the Scott
county bond case, which have default
ed in interest for several years. The
case had gone to the U. S. Supreme
court twice and was on its way there
again.
Ladies are to be admitted to the gal
leries at the next meeting of the Kan
sas Day club, which is to be held in
Representative hall at the state house.
There were sold in six days time in
the Wichita hog market, 5,544 hogs to
Cudahy, SO carloads, or about 1000 to
Armour, and other packers also got
some loads.
The state convention of the Modern
Tonties was held in Wichita, with
about $50 delegates Delegates were
elected TO the national convention to
be held in Washington in January.
]. w. Stone, of Lawrence, G. A. R.
official, is one Of the incorporators of a
Soldiers and Sailors Historical and Be
nevolent society, with the object of
collecting the history of soldiers and
sailors for the benefit of their families
In future generations