The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1901-07-05

county, has been incorporated.
Much loss from fires in wheat fields
is reported from Central Kansas.
A new laundry building and outfit
at Eureka is burned at a loss of 5000.
Bank Commissioner Albaugh is of
the opinion that Kansas has too many
banks
Two hundred Odd Fellows attended
the dedication of a new hall at Hum
boldt.
Northeastern Kansas complains OF
a severe drouth during the last week
in June.
The cost to Butler county in the Sec
ond trial of Miss Morrison will be
about 81, 200.
A ton of Trego county shale has
yielded Sl5 worth of silver and SO
worth of gold.
State Labor Commissioner johnson
is harvesting his 30 acres of wheat in
Sumner county.
Pittsburg has 1876 people and with
the mining camps surrounding the city
the number is $500
Elmer Mott, Topeka mail driver, is
in Jail charged with robbing mail
packages of jewelry.
S. p. Calm, one of the jurors in the
Jessie Morrison ease. lost his big hay
barn on his farm by fire.
A Winfield beer seller was convicted
of dispensing II glasses OF beer among
II men and was fined Sl,7O0.
More taxes were paid before the
time limit this year than ever before.
This is true all over the state.
A Wichita truck raiser has eight
acres in string beans and expects to
get 500 an acre for the crop.
In 1878 Labette coanty offered a re-
ward for the Benders and has just
withdrawn that offer after IS years.
The contract for the new inirmary
at the Osawatomie insane asylum is let
to O. &. Petty, of Olathe, for $50, 800.
]. w. Gill, who was secretary of the
treasury in John Browns provisional
government, now does business in
Milan, Sumner county.
Thugs continue to round up harvest
ers in Wellington, pretending to be
policemen. They lock up their victims
in cars after robbing them.
Kansas pays out about 100000
year for imported labor during the
harvest and threshing. Many men so
employed. from abroad remain and
become Kansas farmers.
w. C. Carson, of Cowley county, re-
ce.ved notice to place S., 900 in GER
tair place or his house would be
burned His house has been burned
and his wife was terribly burned while
he had gone after his mail.
John T. Stewart, of Sumner county,
has about 145 quarter sections of land
which he rents. His grain rentals in
Sumner county where are ll5 quarter
sections of his land, will amount this
year to nearly 1O0,O 900 bushels of wheat.
Mr.. Stewart bagan his business life as
a $50 clerk in Wichita abstract office.
A New York alderman has scheme
TO send 5000 unemployed men and
women to Kansas and Kansas will not
stand it and has told the New Yorker
so. Governor Stanley sent this mes
sage: kansas always welcomes
thrifty, helpful people, but doesn't in
tend to become the poor house of the
nation"
Items like this are common thing
just now: A farmer near Belle PLANE
threshed his wheat and it turned out
80 bushels to the acre and tested 60
pounds to the bushcl. He was more
surprised than he could express
President and Mrs. Taylor of the
State normal closed their 10 years SER
vice in the school buried in flowers.
After the regular chapel assembly the
students, dressed in their best, filed
past the stage, each throwing a bou,
quet which left the recipients of them
''knee deep in June
The quality of Sumner county wheat
is reported as OF higher grade than
that of last years crop.
The Topeka Capital has an extended
article, illustrated with licensees of
women of Kansas who have been sue
cessful in business enterprises, from
insurance agencies, bakery and con-
fectionery shops, millinery and fur
niture to general merchandising.
Nearly 90 lines of business are repre-
sented, yet the article does not mem
ton women lawyers and physicians of
whom there are many in the state.
c VI. johnson, the Summer county
farmer who lost all his horses by light
n;pr ,vaa tha hopa6ciarv Of a bio