The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1901-12-06
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Inc SANTA re gives All Oh lts men ho'
in the operating department holiday
on Thanksgiving day.
The city employment agency of To-
peka has secured work for more than
1,500 people since it opened last May.
Oil has been struck at depth of $50
feet nine miles west of Kinsley. The
value of the find is as yet unknown.
Bishop Hennessy has decided to erect
new building at Notre Dame academy
at Fort Scott, and to use the present
building for high school and musical
conservatory.
A man with three acres near Wichita
raised three crops this year; the last
crop was of turnips. of which he gath
cred 800 bushels and sold them at %
cents bushel.
The recruiting officer at Salina is try
ing to enlist number of musicians for
the Fourth cavalry band, which served
three years in the Orient and is now at
Fort Riley.
The Wichita commercial club decides
that 81, 900 is about the proper figure to
expend in entertaining the 1000 cattle
men they expect to attend their meet
ing on February ll-l3.
The unpublished opinions of the
court of appeals, together with digest
of the whole ten volumes of appeals re-
ports, both in one volume, will soon be
ready for distribution.
The United States still owes Kansas
S46S, 900 for money used to take up
Quantrell raid claims An effort to Sc
cure an appropriation from congress
this winter will be made.
The red soil of Kingman county has
proven to be very productive in the
raising of alfalfa; and therefore among
the best cattle and hog producers.
Turkeys also thrive there.
Minneapolis has population of 1, 800
and its three banks carry S740,0 of
deposits. The population of Ottawa
county is II, 0SS and the six banks in
the county have deposits of 81 ,036, 4G6.
According to custom the most of the
officials and employees at the Kansas
state house received their monthly pay
on the day before Thanksgiving. They
always get it the day before Christmas
also.
There is Il case from Franklin county
before the supreme court involving the
question whether contract to sell
land at a specified price necessarily
compels the land to be transferred by
deed.
Kearney county beets were marketed
at Rocky Ford They tested % per cent
sugar. The crop was the best paying
ne of Kearney county and more acres
will be planted to bcets next season
than in the past
Anderson Bros, breeders of thor
oughbred sheep have sold their fine
ranch of $50 acres just north of Valley
Center, in Sedgwicl1 county, to Frank
c. Cusiclx, of Cornell, Ill. The price
paid was sec, 400.
Governor Stanley has told the rail
road commissioners that they need not
make a report to him this year, but
wait until next year when the legisla-
ture will assemble. This saves 81, 900
or 5000 in printing.
Mrs. Strange, widow of Ellinwood,
was bound and gagged in her own
house and the party who did this then
attempted to assault her 12-year-old
granddaughter. Newt Harbold was
arrested on suspicion and taken to Jail
at Great Bend to avoid lynching.
David Nation and his wife are di-
vorced by the court at Medicine Lodge;
their property being divided between
them by order of the court.
A. G. Drew, has been teaching coun-
try schools in Atchison county for
thirty years, and claims the record in
Kansas for length of service in one
county.
There is a new born oil craze at
Brookville. Leases have been secured
on several thousand acres. Several
railroad men are said to be backing the
company.
James Wilmington, of Emporia, has
left his family because his wife would
neither cook an opossum he brought
home, nor would his wife and daughter
allow him cook the nasty thing" him
self. He took train vowing that he
~ould never come back.
The dedication of the NJ. L. church of
Sterling it notable. The S14, 900 edifice
is paid for and comfortable sum in
hand is left over. The Indebtedness on
the morning of the dedication was
$4,000. To cover this 81, 125 was raised
and no one person gave over 500.
Superintendent Frank Nelson finds
that 40. 600 of the 4OO, 900 children of