The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1901-03-08
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Kllleu ny HIS ihoI'et i""'
family difficulty,
independence and Coffeyville are
rivals, and they sometimes show their
teeth at each other.
Mr.. II. Vineyard, prominent citizen
Of Wellington, aged 70, is dead from
dropsy of the heart. %.
Ex-Lieutenant Governor A. J.. Felt
leaves Kansas to make his home with
his son in Oklahoma.
During the late snow storms cen
trial Branch train was II hours getting
over a. miles of track. 80,
State Auditor Cole has refused the
appointment rendered to him of war;
den of the penitentiary.
The Santa Fe is making preparations
to make improvements on its line De-
tween Ottawa and Olathe. ..s.
Fort Scott is named for the annual
convention of the Kansas Christian En-
deavor Union on May al-@3
Two shot frers were killed in coal
mine at Weir City. The timbers OF
the shaft were torn to pieces.
The railroad bill of this session is
the first one that ever passed the SEN
ate without an opposing vote.
Rev. j. w. Vanderlip, of Ransom,
Kansas, was among the injured in the
wrecked train at Millersburg, Indiana.
Jerry Simpson is opening a branch
In Wichita of the commission company
of Kansas City which he is member
of.
The employees of the house of repre-
sentatives have given Chief Clerk Lob
dell $50 set of silver knives, forks and
spoons. a
Nearly 5000 hogs were received at
the Wichita stock yards on February
2s. and 2,446 of them went over the
scales.
Another good wheat crop will turn
all the slurring talk about Kansas now
appearing in Eastern papers, to the
old style.
Chas. j. Webb. the grand master of
the Masonic grand lodge, has been pre-
sented with a magnificent grand mas
ter's jewel.
Walter Dunlap, of Bonner Springs,
was silly enough to Quarrel with his
wife and fool enough to blow out his
brains latter.
State Treasurer Frank Grimes has
gone to Washington to get pointers on
his future work as private secretary to
Senator Burton.
Clyde Miller, of Usage City, succeeds
Henry J. Allen as private secretary to
Governor Stanley. lie graduated from
Kansas University.
In the fifth annual oratorcal con-
test at Midland college. at Stirling,
Martin H. ,Dirks took first place and
Oscar WOODS second.
c.. d. Metcalt, millwright, was
caught by shaft in a mill at Coffey-
vile and was terribly mangled. His
death was instan aneous.
Kansas University will probably use
the $50, 900 received from the govern
ment on the old Free State hotel claim,
for gymnasium and armory.
Governor Stanley stood firmly by his
declaration that he would not sign any
local bills passed after February 10,
but most of those SO passed have be-
come laws by reason of his holding
them beyond the constitutional limit
A horse and mule buyer, direct from
South Africa, with veterinarians with
him has reached Kansas City after
more Kansas horses and mules.
Somebody suggests the profit there
might be realized by shipping train
loads of Kansas soil to New England
and selling it by the pound as fertili-
ger.
lola has lost one of its SIS, 900 school
buildings by fire; the one which was
built in 1898. 1t was of pressed brick
and was fitted with all modern con-
veniences.
Mrs. Nation finally consented to give
a bond and two citizens of Topeka
signed it, She left Immediately for
Peoria. Ills. where she had engaged
to edit paper for few days; there at
whisky productions great center.
Colonel w. +. Cloud, who served in
three wars, the last being with the
Second Kansas in the civil war. is e
years Old, and as active as boy, walk.
at the rate of five miles an hour, goe.
up stairs two steps at a time and never
knows what it is to be sick. lie wa,
recently given a pension Of SIS a month
At,J..w. Logan's sale, in Franklin
county. steer calves brought SEQ. year
ling steers s3l, cows SIS to $40. Out o
a sale of 81, 600 it was all cash but sisO
DIR. Welcome w. Smith. aged s.. die,
at Peabody February -. He had live,