The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1901-10-11
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KANSAS ITEMS or INTEREST.

Joseph r. Mari, of Burton, was a
member of Company c, and was among
the killed on the island of Samar.
The commercial club of Hutchinson
is agitatng the purchase by the city of
the waterworlss and light plant.
County authorities raided five joints
in Arkansas City, and took the jointists
and their stocks on hand to Winfield.
Wichita is awake to the probability
of the extension of the Choctaw road to
that city from Alva about 100 miles
away.
The Rev. j. f. Everett, Congrega-
tional pastor at Onaga, is the new sec
rotary of the Kansas State Temperance
Union.
Two negro convicts in the U. S. peni-
Tertiary at Fort Leavenworth, attacked
John Kennary, a guard, severely in
juring him.
The state firemen's convention meets
this year at Junction City ON October
Is. This is the 18th annual meeting of
the association.
On Sunday, September %, Dodge City
had the highest recorded temperature
in the United States. The thermometer
registered %.
The section house at Dodge City, a
two story building, is burned down.
w. Glaze, who occupied it, lost valu-
able library.
The barb worm which infested wheat
fields in Saline county, proved bene-
fit to the crop by cleaning the boards
from the wheat.
A. b. Hulitt, late of Topeka, has a
Hereford ranch near Chihuahua. He |
raises them and ships in many for the
Mexican market
In Admire, Lyon county, citizens |
headed by brass band and armed |
with hatchets, etc, smashed all the
joints in the place.
The city marshal of Junction City
says the last pay day at Fort Riley was
the first in 80 years when no drunken
soldier was seen in the city.
Bank Commissioner Albaugh is OPP
posed to banks with less than $4,000
capital, but the law recognizes the right
to organize with only half that much.
Orville Myers, Topeka boy, while
out duck hunting with other boys,
dropped his gun which was discharged
and the load struck him in the back of
the head and tore the skull off.
The industrial department of the
State reform school is now making
clothing for the inmates of other state
institutions. They also make shoes,
and are taught all sorts of trades.
In some counties there will be no
elections held, there being mutual
agreements that township officers shall
hold over, or in some cases, that the
county boards shall make appointments.
Attorney General GODDARD says that
the governor has authority to appoint
sheritfs to fill vacancies caused by the
biennial election law, and Governor
Stanley announces that he will name
sheriffs on October Is. ,
Mrs. Cox, of CORTLAND. Kansas. with
her four children, were on train at
Alliance, Nebraska and attempted to
go into another car while the train was
going around curve and with her ;
3-year-old child was thrown from the
moving train. Both were seriously
hurt. )
John Dawson, bond clerk in the state
treasury, is gobbling up all the gold ;
land in the Trego district that he can {
get hold of.
Judge Moore of the Eighth district,
will hereafter make freedom from faint l
Of anarchy requisite for citizenship S
when applications for naturalization {
are made. I
The new election law of Kansas is
considered almost an insolvable riddle {
to the average voter. 1t will require !
much study to master its intricaces c
say the critics. a
Business men of Emporia are plan
ming TO buy lots adjoining the grounds I
Of the state normal for the new library
building. There is but one vacant place '
On the grounds to put it and that is {
out of sight from anywhere; back of the s
main building. a
One entire outer wall of the Wareham t
opera house at Manhattan fell. carving
with it about ten feet of the front. The {
telephone office is in the building and i
the system is damaged so that service i
was cut off for time. The building is /
insured only against fire. t
The affianced bride of Lieutenant
Burton Mitchell, Miss Marley, of 7
)lathe, died recently. LieutenafSt t
is aide to General Funston. ;