The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1901-07-19
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

about So, 900.
The daily receipt of taxes at the
state treasury range $3.50 to SIS, 900
these days.
John Galloway, u Cloud county re-
tired farmer, was killed by lightning
at jamestown.
Five horses and three or four wagons
were burned in Caldwell livery barn
by common fire crackers.
The Parsons Catholics claim their
new pipe organ is the largest between
Kansas City and Galveston.
Kansas town people unite in telling
the farmers how to save their stacks
from fire. OF course the dry goods
box ROSTERS would have had every
thing safe long ago.
Two threshing outfits were destroyed
by fire in Lincoln county, fires catch
ing from sparks from the engines An
other in Pawnee county; both fires
reported on the same day.
Many county fairs in Kansas here
tofore announced, are being abandoned
on account of the prevailing dry and
hot weather. Like action is probab BILE
in the case of the state fair at Topeka.
About all the travelling men in
Southern Kansas towns, wnen the
opening proclamation was issued,
found that El Reno would be appro-
priately entered on their route sched-
ule for the next round.
The Maggie Murphy crusher on the
Shelbina ground, in the Galena mining
district, and Dutch Mikes crushing
plant at North Empire, are both burn
ed, at a loss of $40, 900, throwing many
men out of employment.
A German truck farmer, of Wyan-
dotte county, has sued an Argentine
company which manufactures sulphur
ic and nitric acids, for $685., alleged
damage to his crops from gases which
settled on his crops and killed them,
When Jessie Morrison was starting
to go to the penitentiary several hun
dred people congregated at the rail-
road station; half of the crowd being
women. A large number crowded
into the train to stare at the prisoner.
s. ]. Peterson, claim agent of the
Union Pacific, says that 1000 acres of
wheat has been burned along the road
in Kansas. The road runs through
100 miles of solid wheat fields, and
Patterson thinks the railroads loss is
comparatively small.
There are 40 DEGREES of divorce in
Shawnee county in which the costs of
the case have not been paid. BY Judge
Hazen's order no record of Judgment is
made in the journal until costs are
paid. So there are forty couples who
probably think they are divorced while
they are still married. Some of these
are liable to prosecution for bigamy,
having married again.
About thirty years ago General w.
B. Hazen commanded some troops at
Wichita. While so employed he played
poker and won out. In squaring the
deal the loser, named Bancroft, decided
Hazen some city lots, rated at Sl00.
Hazen never paid any taxes, and now
asuit is started against Admiral George
Dewey and his wife, Mildred Dewey,
{who was General Hazen's widow be-
fore her name was made Dewey to
secure from them quit claim of the
lots to j. o. Davidson, the holder of
the tax titles.
The state board of charities esti-
mates that there will be S35, 900 great.
er expense in providing food for the
inmates of State institutions this year
than usual on account of the failure of
their vegetable gardens from drouth.
Corn in large sections of Kansas
commenced shriveling up on July s.
Up to that date the crop had generally
withstood the heat The oat crop is
general failure and grass to make hay
is very scarce. 1t is not so serious in
Western Kansas and considerable stock
has been shipped there.
Carloads of young and middle aged
men, with grips, blankets aud shot
guns, pass through Kansas from far
ther east, bound for the newly opened
lands.
John Howard, private of the 43rd
volunteer infantry, has been arrested
on the charge of shooting Chillicothe,
Mo, man named Gibbons, at Hutchin-
son. Howard says his party had been
warned against being held up, and
when Gibbons with other returning
harvesters entered their car, some one
shot, hitting Gibbons
The supreme court decided in the
Chase county case that coupons on
municipal bonds not due could not be
refunded. This defeats the new state
statute for refunding.
A man in buggy was driving in