The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1901-05-10
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

100000 bushel elevator in Wichita.
Robert A. MaXey, manager for lum-
Der company in Arkansas City, has
killed himself.
The 47th annual session Of the state
association of Congregational churches
is held in Wichita from May . to May
&.
Mrs. Frank Kitchen, of Horton, gets
$4,000 by the will of an uncle in Him
dis who make his money in the Klon-
dixie.
The Paola Commercial club offers a
prize of 5000 for the best culverts bnilt
during the year on roads leading to
town.
A Wellington paper reports joints
running there wide open under agree
ment to pay monthly fine of 500
each.
The Southern Kansas Academy at
Eureka will devote the week COM
mencing June 3, to its graduating cX-
ercises.
Atchson is getting to be better
town to live in: the saloon keepers can
not live and pay monthly assessments
both.
While George Head was resisting ar
rest in Topeka, he was struck on the
head by Policeman Hall, and died six
hours later.
The recent heavy rainfall at Wichita
was 161 inches in one hour. At An
thony, so miles south, three inches fell
within two hours.
A township of Wilson county pro-
poses to encourage rural mail route
by buying rock crusher and macad-
amizing the roads.
Inspector Gilbert of the rural mail
service in Kansas, says that 200 routes
are now in operation and that applica-
tons are in for 300 more
An Iowa man has purchased Is quar-
ter sections in Sherman county as an
Investment. Prices paid were low,
some of it at 81 an acre.
Colonel John C. Carpenter of Chanute
is much talked about now because he
preferred to refuse two appointments
rendered him by the president.
A 81 inch coal vein has been found
near Seneca at the depth of 10 feet.
Several thinner veins were found be-
tween that depth and the surface.
The treasurer of the Cherry vale
brick company, went to Haddam, Wash
ington county. to inspect shale discov-
cred there and says it is of the finest
quality.
There is expected to be very large
gathering of farmers at Salina on May
16, to formulate plans for cooperative
elevators and shipping associations all
over the state.
James Dunn was fatally wounded by
Ben 10y near Lincoln, Lincoln county.
Dunn went to see Logs daughter, 10y
forbid his entering the house and the
shooting followed
II. Collet has been postmaster of
Elk, in Marion county, for 81 years
and has just had his office checked up
by postoffice inspector for the first
time. Everything was found straight.
Contractors for the work on the
cutoff at Wellsville, found difficulty in
securing laborers and imported force
Of negroes. The white men employed |
were dissatisfied and some of them |
quit.
The Sells and Gray circus is to spend
next winter in Topeka. Willie Sells,
of that firm, made this statement while
in Topeka at the funeral of his mother
The bargain for the Bennett proper
ty for governors residence in Topeka
is complete and Governor Stanley ex-
poets to be occupying it some time in
May.
Chris Foust and Merle Richards,
Sumner county boys, were hunting
plover and were accidentally shot, re-
ceiving wounds which were considered
fatal
A loan has been negotiated by the
Catholics for the completion of the con-
vent at Concordia. Work on their
there is to commence soon.
The Burlingame Chronicle says about
prices of last year and this, the fol-
lowing: "We saw a sulky pillow offered
for s3s that brought s45 last year; a
sl4 walking plow is down to sl2 80; s9s
listers are sold for s94; cultivators that
the farmers had to pay SIS for last
year can be had now for SIS: s4s plant
ers are cut to s3s. In binders the
price of last year has been maintained.
Report says that at least 5000 visit
ors were in Arkansas City on April &c,
in attendance upon the Odd Fellows
gathering there, aud drawn by the
usual attractions with such an occa-
sion.
At the commencement OF the Spanish