The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1901-11-01
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST,".

pect for coal, gas and oil at Jewell City.
The largest COW in Kansas is owned
by Dick Clark, of Gaylord. She weighs
1000 pounds and is six feet high.
L. II. LoclSridge, of Oak Hall, has
killed the old eagle who has made its
home in that section for % years.
Congressman w. A. Reeder, of the
Sixth district, asks the people to select
their postmasters by local elections.
The finest livery barn in Emporia,
with IS horses and 10 carriages, is
burned at loss of towards $4,000.
The city marshal of Wellington takes
bows to school; those who do not at
tend. and the school board furnishes
them with books.
DR.. Louis Schleisinger, of st. Louis,
who holds spirit seances at Arkansas
City, has been arrested for refusing to
pay his license fee.
While the state meeting of the Anti
Horse thief association was in session
at independence seven horses were
stolen from close by the town.
Mrs. Lewis Hornbecll, late of the
Beloit industrial school for girls, is an
APPLICANT for the position of matron OF
a North Dakota Indian school.
The last list of Kansas towns with
500 or more population which are free
from joints includes Burr Oak, Delphos,
Robinson. Ef1ingham, McLouth and
Nortonville. There surely must be
more.
Case Brodericll, of Holton, has been
made special master to take testimony
in the case involving title to several
thousand acres of land in Western
Kansas held by the Santa Fe rail
road.
c. A. Keller, the Cowley county apple
king, is harvesting and storing in
buildings erected for that purpose TO-
900 bushels of apples. He has twenty
varieties. They are now nearly all
picked.
n. B. Brown, of Cloud county, bought
40 acres two years ago at $40 an acre
and put it in alfalfa. His two years
income from the two years crops paid
interest, taxes, seeding and repaid the
$40 an acre too.
1t is proposed that the state buy
Stiger's island adjacent to the peniten-
tiary at Lansing, for the purpose of
extending the state coal mines underit.
The mines now being worked will not
last much longer.
DR.. G. A. Gates, of Cheyenne, Wyo.,
has accepted the presidency of Wash
burn college after declining the presi-
dency of the Illinois university, the
Ohio university, Lake Forest college
and Dartmouth college.
Probate Judge B. B. Garrett, of Ness
county, died in barber shop at Ness
City while waiting to be shaved. He
had resided there 81 years and was the
first county treasurer He was serving
his fourth term as probate judge.
A troublesome citizen of Ottawa got
to that point in his career requiring
lesson. The court, in one breath, fined
him S25 for being drunk; 500 for dis
turbing the peace; 800 for resisting an
officer; 500 for destruction of Jail prop
erty: costs, $7.15. The court put a
limit on the number of cubic feet of
stone day he must break until the
1892. Is was wiped out
A Rock Island freight piled up Is
cars in a cut south of Peck, the second
station south of Wichita. There was
some livestock on the train. The en-
CINE escaped and no one was hurt. A
train was sent from Wichita with 40
men to clear the track.
County Superintendent Smith, of
Franklin county, found that when the
monthly meeting of teachers was held
at Ottawa much time was spent at the
milliners, shopping and making calls.
He then appointed the meetings at the
small lows and secured better results.
DIR. Farig, of Philadelphia, govern
ment expert, has visited the Trego gold
fields and sent wagon load of the
shale to an eastern station for analysis
During the late drouth deposits in
Kansas banks have increased to $40,
600, 900; about equally divided between
the national banks and the state and
private banks.
BY report of Statistical Secretary
Dixon, the Friends society in Kansas
has gained 1873 members during the
past year, making a total membership
Il, OO2 at the present time.
Law Notes, the leading law journal
of the country, says that the Kansas
supreme court reports are the best that
are issued. t. E. Dewey is the author.
John wilbur, one of the mob at
country saloon in Leavenworth county