The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1901-11-15
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

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Only five octobers in the past 81
years have been warmer than the one
just closed
H. NJ. Reid, of Crawford county, has
lost several cattle from backlog. Mr..
Reid is big breeder of fancy cattle.
The place of Physician at the insane
asylum at Topeka is vacant and lines
are out to find the best man to fill it.
A new Congregational church is to
be built at Osborne 1t will be of stone
and will cost between 5000 and 81, 900.
Three banks Of Salina hold deposits
amounting to Sl,341, 924.50, which is
over SIS for every inhabitant of Saline
county.
j. E. Hurley, division superintendent,
is quoted as saying that the division
terminals at Coolidge will be removed
to Syracuse.
Thirteen banks do the business of
the $4,000 people of Brown county.
The combined assets of these banks is
S., 170, 006.53.
The new Mitchell county court house
at Beloit has a room especially designed
for a rest room for women of the coun-
tv who come to town.
A two-year-old girl of Eureka, while
eating walnuts, was cholIed to death by
a kernel lodging in her throat. She
was the daughter of Edward Miller.
The California Limited will pick up
the fast mail car at Newton and take
it to La Junta and the returning linn
tied. No. 4. will take it back to Kansas
City.
Henry Williams, of Gaylord, is be-
coming quite wealthy by fattening cat
tie on alfalfa. This year he has 400
head in his feed lots which he will feed
this winter.
In and within three miles of Cherry
vale there are sc gas wells with pro-
ducinp capacity of 100 million cubic
feet daily; equivalent to $500 tons OF
coal. or 400 carloads.
The binding Irvine plant at the Kan
sas penitentiary will start to work
about January /. Warden Jewett has
secured enough sisal to keep the work
going through the winter months.
Judge Hazen, of Shawnee county, de-
cides that an assistant attorney general
cannot punish witness who refuses to
give him evidence, under the inquisition
raw. which gives that power to county
attorneys only.
The counties of Stanton, Grant, Has
kell, Morton, Stephens, Seward and
Meade and part of the counties OF
Hamilton, Finney, Kearney, Gray,
Ford and Clark are not within the
Louisiana Purchase.
Rev P. II. Anderson has just re-
turned to Abilene from the Klondille,
where his mines have this year given a
large fortune, and has purchased sew
eral farms in the county and settled
his relatives upon them.
The present term of the supreme
court has on the docket CAB cases. 1t
will take the court year to catch up
There are about 40 new cases coming in
monthly, which would make / 900 cases
in sight for the next year
The old law suit over the mineral
springs property at Carbondale has
reached verdict in the Emporia dis
trict court for ST., 900 damages for the
Burdicks. The case is against the Car
bondale Investment company and it
has been in the courts for II years.
Ed Winchester of Leavenworth, has
has had leg amputated. 1t was the
result of Injuries received in football
game.
Cattlemen are buying up tax deeds
aud unsold school lands in western
counties, taking every acre they can
get hold Of
Ii. L. Jones, aged II, the first mem
Der of the legislature from Saline coun-
ty. is dead. He was the original ''Buf-
falo Jones, representing large section
of the state which was then covered
with bnffaloes.
Reports received by Superintendent
Nelson from 95 of the 1O5 counties of
the state show that $50 new school
houses have been built during 1901.
The second Jail delivery within a
month occurred at Great Bend. Four
prisoners took a stone out of the wall
and the next day were lodging blood
hounds
Blaclkleg among young cattle in Sedg-
wick county is attributed to sudden
change of the stock from grass to pas
turage on early sown wheat with a
rank growth.
Two sets of heirs and the state of
Kansas are trying to get the property
left by John Gamer, of Butler county.