The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1901-04-12
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.


paper.
Ex-Governor Leedy informs his Wich-
tia friends that he expects to make
Seattle his permanent home.
All the laws which come into force on
their publications in the official state
paper, have now been published.
The snow which fell ON April COW
cred Kansas and considerable territory
outside. 1t is welcomed by farmers.
1t is funny, yet packing house meat
is advertised and sold way out where
cattle come from in western Kansas.
Assistant Attorney General West has
given it as his opinion that the bien-
NAL election law is valid at all points.
Effort and expense will not be want
ing to give Harvey county fair in
September that will be county beaten.
Experiments made at the Overbrook
creamery are reported as showing that
Kafir corn does not produce good but
ter.
The Missouri Pacific sent a special
from Wichita to Lindsborg on April 3,
to take people to the great Messiah"
concert there.
The county court house at Abilene is
to be remodeled and provided with
more vaults and made more convenient
in other ways.
Harold Chase, editor of the Topeka
Capital, must stand trial for criminal
libel for saying things about Police
Judge McGaw.
Joseph O'Byrne of Topeka, a Mis-
souri, Pacific brakeman, was burned to
death in wreck of his train between
Leroy and Aliceville.
General Funstons commission as
brigadier general dates for April /; that
of Smith, on March 30, making the lat
ter outrank the former.
Jerry Black the Santa Fes boss tick
ct man, kept pistol to shoot burglars
and the burglars got it, not talliag any
thing else from his house.
Thos. Alley, a Saline county farmer,
claims to have guessed right on the
corn crop for the past 20 years. He says
that prospects are very favorable fer a
large yield this year.
AS lawyers disagree upon the valid
ity of the new biennial election law, a
test case is to be made in Shawnee
county and pressed to an early decision
from the supreme court.
Democrats carried Kansas City, Kan
First reports give Topeka democrat
ic mayor, all other offices filled by re-
publicans. j. w. Orr, democrat, is
elected mayor of Atchison. The entire
democratic ticket was elected in Leav-
enworth. There was but one issue in
Wichita and the vets won, electing
Mclean for mayor by 1900. He was
republican nominee. Concordia repub-
licans had dry ticket and were beaten.
Harper went wet by large majority.
Republicans of Great Bend ran a wet
ticket and won. Emporia elected dry
ticket which was also republican.
Larned elected non-partisan dry
ticket Law and order ticket won at
Eureka, and also at Manhattan. In
Fort Scott the republican ticket was
dry and it won. Salina elected dry
ticket and so did Arkansas City, also
Usage City, while Chanute went wet.
Hutchinson elacted wet mayor. Hol-
ton beat the wet ticket independence
went wet.
George Evans, formerly prosperous
contractor at Topeka, is now in the
Soldiers home and in very poor health.
He has had several contracts in the
course of the building of the state
house.
The mayor of Hutchinson forgot to
issue proclamation for the city cleo
ton and now the courts may be asked
to decide whether there has been
legal election held. There was an in
creased number OF votes polled, which
shows the lack of a necessity for the
law requiring proclamation.
The Rock Islands Colorado line is
ballasted as far west as Phillipsburg,
and it is the intention of the company
to complete the ballasting as far as
Goodland this year. Crushed rock is
used.
A nine-acre farm, a mile north of
Cherryvale, has been sold to a gas COM
pany for $4,000. 1t lays in the line of
their gas wells
notice posted in the Missouri Pacif-
ic shops in Fort Scott was a surprise to
the men. 1t raised wages of all ma
chinists 311< cents day.
A Wichita physician has bought a
buff cochin coclSrel lately, paying $40
for IL. He also bought another pen Of
six hens and coclrel for s45.
The Topeka millers have employed
an attorney TO commence a suit to en-
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