The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1901-09-20

of southern Kansas frequently now.
The Rock Island is putting heavy
steel rails between Wichita and Herring
| ton.
Two Santa Fe employees at Emporia
were discharged for smoking in the oil
house.
Cattlemen at the Wichita stock yards
pay 50 a ton for prairie hay. Alfalfa
is held at Sla a ton.
The new law requiring prescriptions
for morphine and the like seems to he
easily evaded in Kansas
Curtis Monical succeeds Chas. j. Webb
as chief clerk for Superintendent Nc
Lellan, of the Santa Fe.
A 5000 piano, bought in Kansas City.
has been installed in the official home
of the governor of Kansas,
The state mine inspector threatens
to bring suits against mine operators
for employing child labor.
In 1891 Kansas had "a, asa acres of al
falfa: in 1901 there were 10000 acres
of this forage crop in the state.
A great many new telephone wires
are being strung in Western Shawnee
and eastern Wabaunsee counties.
The number of new students in
Washburn college is greater at this
opening season than ever before.
There are no places in Kansas more
prosperous than is Holton. The town
is absolutely free from the liquor
traffic.
j. T. Ryan. wealthy farmer of Mont
gomery county, is mysteriously missing.
Mr. Ryan's age is 81 years. He owns
farm of 24O acres.
Miss Jessie Morrison went from the
penitentiary to Excelsior Springs with
the hope of regaining her health. She
gave a $40, 600 bond.
Miss Edith Davis, teacher in the
Topeka high school, has accepted
81, 200 position in the territorial agri-
cultural college of New Mexico
While Miss Morrison was in the pen
itentiary, she made a good deal of
fancy work which brought a consider
able revenue to the library fund.
A iointist of Eudora took ten cases of
beer to Woodmen's picnic. While he
was getting away with two cases the
Woodmen smashed eight with axes and
things.
There are 100 cars of bridge material
at Liberal for the Rock Island bridge
over the Canadian on the Ell Paso ex-
tension. The bridge will be 500 feet
long and 1875 feet high.
On September 10 the balance in the
general revenue. in the state treasury
was $l9l ,39s, while the surplus money
in the permanent school fund was $780,
Col For the latter strenuous efforts
are being made to find investments
A Greenwood county jury in the dis
trict court found the mayor of Eureka
not guilty on the charge of disobeying
ing the law in appointing a civilian
as street commissioner when an old
soldier was an applicant for the place.
The Santa Fe is putting in a pump
ing station at the Cottonwood river
and will pump direct into the Emporia
city mains. This will alleviate some
of the scarcity of water. They expect
to put in a. plant of their own next
summer.
Less than two years ago Marshal
Hatfield bought the John Gapen so
acres in Harmon township, Sumner
county, for $3.50. His first crop was
l 200 bushels of oats and 400 bushels of
corn. This year he threshed 1,O71
bushels of wheat and on Tuesday he
sold the land for S1,7OO.
The city schools of Wichita opened
with an enrolment on the first morn
ing of 1854 pupils of which number
there were 349 in the high school.
Attorney General GODDARD decides
that county clerks must turn over the
81 taken for registering doctors GER
tificates, into the general funds of the
county
After celebrating their sixty-second
wedding anniversary, Mr.. and Mrs. j,
II. Spicer, of Neosho Falls started to
see the sights at the Pan-American ex-
position.
State Superintendent Nelson favors
adopting the savings bank system in
the schools in this state which some
other states have found valuable.
Prof. Landson, of the Fort Scott
schools says that in % years but one
boy addicted to the cigarette smoking
habit has graduated from the schools
of Fort Scott.
DIR. E. NJ. Wood. who has been at
the head of the department of mathe-
mates at Baker university for IA years,
has accepted the same position in Al