The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1901-12-13
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Mavor Cation, of Winfield has vetoed
a fifty-year franchise for piping natural
gas.
There are Ave stoclmen of Butler
county who pay over $1,000 Il year IN
taxes.
The discharge of guns at artillery
practice at Fort Riley is heard at Alma
% miles away.
The gross receipts of Kansas post
offices for the year was Sl'156' 4ooo'' or
ST. per capita.
The constitution of Kansas was draft
ed in Il building on the Wyandotte Hats
since washed away.
There is nothing in the way now OF
preparing to build the new asylum for
epileptics at Parsons.
Two carloads of turkeys were shipped
from Stockton in two successive days
There were 900 of them.
The Logan Republican denies the
story that there are 26 widows in Logan
1t says there are only ten.
Money received at the Shawnee coun-
tv treosurer's office, during this tax
paving season, is fumigated.
Osborne county is likely to take the
cue from its next neighbor, Mitchell
county, and build a court house.
The Kansas wheat crop OF 1901 is
o4.6 per cent greater than the average
annual crop for the past ten years.
Miss Julia McInerney, of Abilene, re-
Gently sold to Chicago publishers TWO
musical compositions for 500 each.
Judge Glass, of Marysville decides
that the search and seizure clause OF
the Hurrell law is unconstitutional
Geo. Hendricl1, the Smith Center band
leader, has gone to Carson City, Nevada,
TO lead the Nevada state band, of 80
men.
The hod carriers at work on the Lyon
county court house struck for more pay
and the work is now done by horse
power.
Stockton shipped a carload of pota-
toes to San Francisco and on the same
day the Alton mill shipped 1000 bags
of flour to Liverpool
Superintendent Nelson reports that
the consolidation of schools is especially
strong in Jewell, Dickinson, Cherokee,
Rice and Shawnee counties.
w. Fl. Lewis, for twenty years ticket
agent for the NJ. X. & Z. at Parsons,
died suddenly at his home. He was
prominent in Masonic circles
The opera house at Cottonwood Falls
is used for the revival meetings there,
which are being conducted by the Chi
cago Oliver brothers, revivalists.
Jacob Andrews died in Wichita the
other day at the age of 81 years. He
had presumption claim on the present
site of Chicago in the early days
TOIGbSOI lbldhNs VI 'A''ii''"'
University, is said to have sold to New
Workers. for S25, 900 a process for sep
arating gold without the use of water.
Atchison capitalists are cautious.
They have taken an Arizona charter
for the company which proposes to open
coal mine there, SO as to avoid the
double liability law of Kansas.
The warden of the federal prison at
Leavenworth does not approve of the
mooted plan to confine Aguinaldo
there, because visitors would constantly
annoy everybody connected with the
prison by wanting to see Aggie. They
have much bother from people who
want to see Oberlin Carter.
Nemaha is the banner corn county
this year, the product being 3,lO7, 664
bushels as shown by Secretary Coburn's
report.
A farmer near Argentine has been
awarded damages against chemical
company for the destruction of crops
by fumes from the company's works.
R. W. Wells, the youngest member OF
the Maryland legislature, lived severa,
years at Coffeyville, Kansas. He was
admitted to practice in the Kansas su
preme court in 1896. He is now q
years old.
O. G. Hill, mayor and postmaster a
Burr Oak, quarreled with j. NJ. Hotch
kiss, a farmer. Hill locked the dooi
and the two men fought. Hill was ar
rested, but Hotchkiss went to Kansas
City for medical treatment.
Less than a month ago one stat
house stenographer was married. Th'
announcement of the engagement o
two others-to each other-was an
nounced last week and four others hav
given their employers quiet tips tina
they will soon give up their jobs +
to reign over households.
Apple orchards about Barnes are be
ing destroyed by canker worms Dam
age by these worms is reported i
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