The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1902-01-03
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

good beginning in accommodating funds
for library building.
Representative Long is advocating an
increase in the pay of rural mail route
carriers to 5000 year.
II is said that within year more than
1000 worth of tombstones have been
placed in the Burlingame cemetery.
The ten-year-old son of Thomas Nc
Cormick, section foreman at Miltonvale,
was drowned in a pond while at play.
Mrs. Lucinda Carlton, aged GA, died
Dec. 23 on the Sedgwick county farm
upon which she has lived for 80 years.
Quincy r. Croft of Osborne, Kansas,
has been appointed clerk and type
writer in the agricultural department
at Washington.
The Neodesha Register announces
that the Lanyon Brothers are about to
erect and operate zinc smelter in
Neodesha, where they have extensive
oil leases.
Friends of an Atchison pastor started
out to gather 500, to give to him on
Christmas. 1t was so easily done that
they made it 5000 before they stopped
asking for dollars.
Kansas merchants agree that they
never had a better trade; especially the
holiday trade, than during the season
of 1901. And never has the trade been
SO close to spot cash.
of his daughter in Hutchinson. He
was well known as a writer on medical
subjects, and the author of several
books He was native of Scotland
and was II years old.
The Santa Fe has contracted for / 800
tons of ice to be taken from Lake Con-
trary, above Atchison in the river bot
toms of Missouri, one third of the ice
to go into their Atchison ice house and
1000 tons shipped to Topeka.
The new cell house in the Hutchinson
reformatory is abont completed and
ready for use on New Years 1t has
240 cells and is the finest cell house in
the west. The walls of the cell are OF
solid rock. The floor of each is one
stone, each wall one stone and the CELL
ing one stone. Each cell is fitted with
electric lights and sewer connections.
II. d. Washburn, implement dealer,
and j. f. Enterline, a miller, both OF
Downs. have started upon six months
tour of the world. They went to San
Francisco to sail for Hawaii, thence to
China, Philippines, Egypt, Palestine,
Cyprus, Greece, Italy, Paris, London
and elsewhere. They expect to be gone
six months.
en-. M. Sherman has a 40, 600 acre farm
in Ellsworth county upon which he
employs from so to $50 men, among
whom are three bookkeepers and ste
nographers. On the place are kept
1000 cattle, from which $500 are
Skinned annually. Telephone lines
lead from headquarters at Geneseo to
the different parts of the farm. OF
rough feed 5000 acres are grown.
DR. O. w. Crow, Of Pawnee, Kansas,
purchased fifty Arizona heifers four
years ago at $13. so each. He has sold
from this bunch and it's increase enough
to bring him So 300 and has left 60 head
of to year olds worth $1,000. He
places the total expense and care OF his
herd, including taxes and interest, at
not more than $500; leaving his account
with profit balance of $2,375. TWEEN
ty-two years ago he began with 70
cents and pair of ponies and an old
wagon.
John A. Morton, of Osborne, bought
a section of land in Sherman county for
$500 and sold it the next day for 81 ia.
Alfalfa growing in Sherman county is
advancing the price of lands there.
Beginning December 80 the Missouri
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Wichita and Salina, to be known as o
ard 10; the first to leave Wichita at
sos D. m. aud the other to leave Salina
at 6:3O a. IN. Another change is the
Wichita Kiowa train, which now leaves
Wichita at $50 p. m. and will leave at
5p. m.
Judge Hazen, of Topeka, favors the
adoption of the law of Colorado and
other states which allows questions of
public importance to be submitted to
the supreme court without argument,
for immediate decision.
II. Harner, a Harvey county farmer
has from time to time employed %
paroled prisoners from the Hutchinson
reformatory. Mr.. Harner takes a
strong personal interest in the boys
and encourages them to become good
citizens. He has found most of them