The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1901-12-27
RA,ysAs ITEMS. OF INTEREST.

Sheffield Ingalls, name is on one
slate for state insurance commissioner
Mathias,Garthoffer of the National
Soldiers home at Leavenworth, was
frozen to death.
There is a demand from many Kan
sans that Prof. Dyche,s animals be ex-
hibited ut st. Louis.
Galena reported the mercury as
standing at Is degrees below zero at
p. M of December l9.
Zine ore has advanced another dollar
and Kansas men interested in its pro-
dnetion are jubilant.
The Methodist church AT Wellsville
is burned The loss is about $500,
with 81, 600 insurance.
The supreme court has decided to
hear all cases involving the ANTITRUST
law on April s, next
Judge c. A. Smith. OF Cawker City,
is a great-grandson of Ethan Allen, of
revolutionary war fame.
At the Cottonwood Falls revival all
but five pupils of the high school joined
some one of the churches.
Three men employed in the Wichita
freight house of the Santa Fee have gone
soldering in the Philippines.
A $40 600 Masonic Temple is to be
built in Topeka on lots which the fra
ternity has owned for years.
According to a new city directory
about to be issued at Topeka, the popu-
lation of that town is 40, 165.
Bethany college, at Lindsborg, sends
more graduates to Yale college than
any other college in the country.
The total of taxes paid in Shawnee
county is $729, O21.Os, of which the
Santa Fe railroad pays S17,1o6.os.
Wallace Thompson will represent
Washburn college in the state oratori-
cal contest next spring at Winfield.
The people of Anthony are preparing
to welcome the first Choctaw trains,
which are expected about January l.
The total assessment value of proper
ty in Shawnee county is SIG, 577, $50 and
the total debt, all bonded, is S615, 900.
Judge Hazen, of the Shawnee county
district court has turned down the
search and seizure clause of the city
ordinance.
Snow is reported from all parts of
Kansas on the Rock Island, Santa Fe
and Missouri Pacific. 1t was needed
by the wheat.
Jas. Connelly's house near Wetmore,
was burned and his neighbors bought
lumber and volunteered their work on
q new house.
During the month of November the
same number of recruits were obtained
in Wichita for the United States army
as in Philadelphia: 81.
Judge j. C. Peclham, pioneer resi-
dent Of Winfield, dropped dead near
Lawton, o. T., where he was on bust
ness for the B. E. & S. railroad.
The revival conducted by the Oliver
brothers at Cottonwood Falls resulted
in more than 200 conversions The
population of the town is about 500.
Citizens of Marion IRE asking the
Santa Fe and the Rock Island TO erect
a union depot there. They say that
each road needs new depot anyway.
The Topeka police force will disre-
gard Judge Hazen's decision in the
search and seizure case until the SUI
preme court renders a decision on the
validity of the law.
E. A. Anderson, " farmer some miles
from gewell City, sold six dozenturkeys
over his rural telephone, and had his
rural mail carrier deliver them. The
turkeys were sold to many different
customers.
Governor Stanley is having a list
made of all the state officials and en-
ployes of the various state institutions,
together with the salaries they receive.
Every day inquiries are received about
one position or another and the gov
ernor wishes to compile the facts SC
they may be easily found.
A woman occupying apartments il
the Sedgwick block in Wichita took q
lamp into a clothes closet and started {
fire which looked dangerous for awhile
The fire was put out with stream o
water from one of the water hydrant
on that floor.
A handsome library, consisting o
1000 volumes of select works, has beer
presented to the Western Theological
seminary of Atchison, by the family o
theslate DIR. A. c. Wedekind, a Lutheran
nainister, who died recently at his HON
in San Diego, California.
Shawnee countys taxes for 1901 are
State taxes. $50, l9l. 81; city taxes, s17O
1854; county taxes, s93s, 1878; town