The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1901-06-07

took 5000 fares on Decoration day.
Bourbon county lands are selling at
an advance of from Is to % per cent.
The observance of Memorial day in
Kansas is more general than usual,
There is a ranch in Chase county that
has 2.l5O acres of alfalfa. 1t is being
cut
Nine tenths of the applications for
Jobs in Kansas are said to come from
Illinois.
The state printer makes and supplies
all of the blanks used by county super
intendents.
About $50, 900 is paid yearly in Wich-
tia to people in the postoffice and to
postal clerks.
The railroad board has contracted
for SIC. 900 new railroad maps of Kan
sas to cost $685.
c. r. X. Prentice has commenced
upon his 3sth years service as city mar
shall of Lawrence.
George Milligan, of Liberal, has
started back to the Klondike, with 30
young men with him.
Two men from Belgium visited the
zinc shelters at lola. Belgium manu-
facturers use much zinc.
New people are coming into Cowley
county all the time and lands sell read
ily at an advance of 10 to 30 per cent.
Colonel George w. Veale, of Topeka,
is to be made superintendent OF the
state house grounds on and after July /.
Finney county people have large
reserve of cash. Grazing lands have
advanced 81 per acre and farming lands
SIS an acre.
Graham county has good demand for
farm and grazing lands. Actual set
tiers have purchased more land during
the past IS months than during the
ten preceding years.
A sorry report about the wheat crop
comes from Ellis county. Someone
writes from there that wheat on plowed
land NAV make Is bushels to the acre,
while that put in on stubble will not
pay to cut.
Brothers named lIossfelds have been
operating trunk factories, one of them
for 81 years in Topeka and the other
for 10 years in Wichita. They now
propose to consolidate and remove to
Kansas City.
The Rock Islands extension from
Liberal, Kansas, is completed to Del
hart. Texas, making 80 miles in Texas,
and 80 more will bring it to the New
Mexican line. Grading is done % miles
beyond Delhart.
Banks of Franklin county have a
million and a half dollars on deposit,
very largely farmers money. The adj
vance in the value of farm lands has
been from s. to $40 in six months.
Iowa buyers get the highest priced
lands.
A Wichita business man who has
much use for the A. d. 7. boys who
work from and for the the Western
Union Telegraph Office, gave the mes
sengers banquet at the SWEETEST hotel
in the city. in recognition of their
prompt, polite and gentlemanly quail
tiles.
The banks of Chautauqua county
have on deposit $3.50 per capita of popu-
lation. Any desirable piece of land
sells readily at an advance of % to so
per cent over five years ago. Many
purchases are made by tenants who
usually pay one-fourth cash. Crops
are good, fruit promises an abundant
crop
The Union hotel in the packing house
district in Wichita, with 81 boarders
has been placed in quarantine. Every
male occupant was taken to the pest
house. There were three cases
of smallpox in the hotel which had not
been reported
VIM Barricklou, a pioneer, died at
Coffeyville on May 20. He settled in
Douglas county in 1855 and went to
Coffeyvillein 1870, where he had since
lived. He was connected with the Her
aid of Freedom that was thrown into
the Kansas river by Quantrell's men.
Farmers of Phillips county are buy
ing SPECTATORS lands quite freely and
there are some newcomers also buying
lands. The. county raises all kinds of
grain, corn, millet, alfalfa, etc.
Harry Hubbard, of Rlue Rapids, was
placed at FL Dorado four months since,
and was transferred to Independence.
His adaptability to the business and
his industry have now secured to him
transfer to San Francisco, where he
has charge of the Armour's egg and
poultry department of the entire Pa
cific coast
Business conditions are good in Nor
ton county and the people have adj
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