The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1901-03-22
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

An elevator of 10000 bushels ca
pacity at Clearwater will be ready for
use in short time.
$. D. Wilmington, of Kincaid, was
recently killed by lightning. He left
$4,000 life insurance.
An end was burned out of Touring
mill at Hope, which caught from hot
box in the machinery.
Judge Smart fined and committed a
Garnett witness in a liquor trial be-
cause he couldn't remember.
Dnring the coal famine which pre-
vailed n short time in Western Kansas
COW chips were at premium.
The Joints. schools and churches
at Weir City were ordered closed until
April on account of smallpox.
President Stillwell, of the Orient
railway, is going to Europe to place
securities of his railway system.
Chicken farmers in Ness county get
IL cents for capons in Denver, when
ordinary chickens sell for halfas much.
Mrs. Carry Liscomb, of Flint, Mich
is visiting towns in Kansas instituting
lodges of the Sisters of the Maccabees.
William Wykes, a prominent citizen
living near Caldwell, is dead He was
an Englishman but had lived in Kan
sas 30 years.
Ellsworth Kelly. county school SUI
perintendent of Woodson county,
writes stories for the Youths Compan-
ion and McClures.
A party of women have destroyed
one of the finest furnished saloons in
Armourdale Guards were quickly in
front of the other saloons.
Twenty-Five men are employed in the
freight department of the Wichita San
ia Fe depot for the sole purpose OF
loading and unloading cars.
At the oratorical contest at Ottawa
Robert Loofburrow, of Baker Univer-
sitv, won first place. and John c. Quinn,
of Ottawa University, second. The
Baker man was only one point ahead.
A visitor to Nortonville one day was
surprised to see the people of the town
engaged in cleaning the park near the
Santa Fe depot. Everybody was work.
ing with enthusiasm. This was the
result of newspaper work for unity OF
effort to beautify the town.
Two men drove up TO a slaughter
house in Mcpherson county. There
were watchmen there as hogs had been
taken from the place. The guards
kept quiet until the men were killing
a hog, when the guards opened fire
One Of the thieves was hit but both got
away.
J General ). X. Hudson gave the in
dustrial institute library of $50 vol
umes. 10 is an institution planned
and organized by William r. Carter,
negro, for the benefit of his race.
General Hudson has felt kindly to col
ored people since his service as major
in coiored regiment in the civil war.
Mrs. Lena Elliott, of Reno county, or
rather her hens, won prize, high
priced incubator. offered by the Des
Moines, Iowa, Poultry Journal. The
prize was offered for the best egg
record made by six hens or pullets in
a period of one month. Her half dozen
pullets produced III eggs in the month
of January, or an average Of @9}9 eggs
each in 81 days.
The trial of Miss Jessie Morrison is
continued until the June term of the
district court in FL Dorado upon re-
quest of the state, for the reason that
there would not be sufficient time for
the trial at this term, which is limited
to four weeks.
Among Mr.. Carnegie's latest is the
promise Of s25, 900 for a library build
ing and new library for Lawrence
In all his library contributions there is
provision for the receiving city tc
provide we'll for the maintenance Of
the library.
Farmers find that the written per
mits they give strangers to hunt or
their premises are liable to turn up as
promissory notes in some bank.
The disappearance of Cashier John
son. OF the bank at Niles, Mich, who
was a stockholder in the Farmers STATE
bank Of Arkansas City, and whose notes
that bank held, caused excitement a
Arkansas City which eliminated in the
withdrawal of deposits. The deposit
ors wore met coQlly, funds having beer
provided fer such an emergency, anC
all of their demands were met
Postmaster William Drumpiller, o
Logan, was killed in railroad wrecl
between Washington and New York
He had been to the Inauguration an,
also TO visit his nsighbor, Congressman
Reeder.
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