The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1901-10-04
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST,".

Tumner county banks are full OF
money; the farmers own the most OF
it.
The second annual Barton county
fair at Great Bend brought together on
its second day 1000 people.
A. II. McAfee, a Frisco brakeman,
had a leg cut off by the trucks of an
engine in the Wichita yards
Missouri parties have leased land
near Laneville, Labette county, for the
purpose of starting a distillery.
Ernest V. futile, an old citizen of
Salina, is dead. He was member of
the Masonic, Shriner and Elk lodges.
The people of Parsons are furnished
with gas for furnaces at IS cents a
thousand with 10 per cent off for cash.
j. II. Hamilton, near HoXie, lost nine
steers from being struck by lightning
He had been having all kinds of i'll luck
and sickness.
A one-year-old daughter of VIM. itch,
of Hope, fell from IA porch into tub of
water and was drowned No one saw
the child fall.
Calvin Coffee, of Atchison county,
sold his apples in the orchard of As
acres for So, 1000. The crop is estimated
at 900 barrels.
Farmers of Dickinson county are
putting in greater acreage of wheat
than ever before. The ground is in eX-
cellent condition.
The state permanent school fund has
taken S27, 900 of township bonds, Wood
son county. There is yet in the fund
S975, 900 uninvested money.
]. A. Myers, Rock Island brake
man, was throwing a switch in Topeka
when he slipped and fell and the train
struck him, MASKING his head.
Charles Sanders, foreman of the c. c.
C. ranch, east of Peabody, was attacked
by large gray wolf which lacerated
him in terrible manner before he sue
ceeded in killing it.
Mrs Rosa Bell, aged 80 years, of st.
John, was killed by a freight train
while gathering wheat from the rail
road tracks. She and her husband.
who are Irish, had considerable prop
crty.
A man is selling bogus life insurance
policies purporting to be issued by the
Phoenix Insurance company, of New
York He sells to farmers. Several
,ictims have been robbed by him in
Lyon county
The True Eleven is the name of
uew colored social organization in
Atchison, formed for the purpose of
elevating the morals of young colored
people and promoting higher standard
in social affairs.
Geo. Welsh, city marshal of S. Marys,
was shot, probably fatally, by a man
named Williams who had been arrested
for beating his wife. The marshal
dunned him for his fine and was an
swered by the shot.
A 12-year old son of Herman Dorm
bush, of Marion county, tied the rc'Ns
of team around him and went to sleep
in the wagon. The team ran away
and dumped the wagon into pond and
perhaps fatally injured the boy.
f. b. Todd, whose home is in Cuba,
has come to Kansas as student of the
at the Agricultural college. His father,
E. b. Todd, went with Funston to fight
for the Cubans and was made captain.
After the war he sent for his family
and remained there.
Miss Grace Perry, of Girard, is APP
pointed by Governor Stanley to the
scholarship offered Kansas in the
School of Industrial Art and Technical
Design in New York City.
A jury in the Cloud county district
court refused to bring in verdict of
guilty when boy was tried and proven
guilty of horse stealing, because he was
Just too old to be sent to the reform
school for second term and would
have to go to the penitentiary. The boy
then stole horse and wagon and is in
Jail again.
They are done figuring on Sumner
countys wheat crop II 1901, and decide
rhat 100000 bushels was raised and
harvested on 10000 acres.
Professor ii. 5. Carr, of the electrical
engineering department of Kansas
university, has resigned from the facul-
ty and will go into business at Cleve-
land, Ohio.
One of that breed of takers called
travelling doctors, got in his graft on
parties in Chautauqua county and is
boarding now at the expense of the
county in Jail.
Simon Bomguard's barn near Canton.
Mcpherson county, was burned, to-
gether with four horses and several
tons of hay. The loss is 5000.