The Chanute times., 1902-02-07
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

All cottonwood trees have been taken
out of the city park at Clay Center.
The Union Pacific is to erect new
$4,000 depot in Topeka next summer.
State Printer w. Y. Morgan has been
elected president of Hutchinson bank.
He retains his newspaper.
Arrangements are being made to re-
open the Solomon salt wells which have
been shut down for two years.
Morton Albaugh has sold his home in
Kingman and will reside in Topeka
during his term as state bank commits
sioner.
The biennial election law was argued
in the supreme court on Jan. 27, in a
case affecting the appointment of
judges.
Contracts amounting to more than
$4,000 have been let for the compile
tion of the ground floor of the Kansas
capitol
The democratic state convention in
Wichita on May 20 will consist of 776
delegates with like number of al
ternates.
General Funston has named his boy
Arthur Macarthur Funston. The boys
mother naturally wanted his name to
be Frederick.
Mrs. Mary Battey, wife of postmaster
d. C. Battey of Florence, died from
blood poisoning caused by the prick of
a pin on her finger.
The travelling section of the Kansas
state library contains S,274 books.
There are now 1853 travelling libraries
from the state library in use in the
state.
The board of directors of the Kansas
State Masonic Home passed favorably
on the plan for new dormitory and
SO report to the grand lodge which
meets at Topeka on February 1s.
The boy found frozen to death near
Winfield has been identified as Frank
Jones, of Cedarvale. He had left home
to go to a brothers home at Tisdale.
The boys blind mother lives in Wich-
ita.
The Coffeyville Window Glass COM
pany has applied for a charter. 1t is
composed of capitalists of Muncie, Ind,
glass manufacturers and has capital
of $50, 900. The factory will employ 70
men,
The alfalfa acreage of the state lasS
year is given at 319,142 acres, alfalfa
now being the second tame grass in the
state, considerably exceeding clover
and blue grass and but slightly behind
timothy.
Cases brought by Shawnee Indians
for possession of fine farms in johnson
county for which parties have held deeds
Tor 25 years, approved by the interior de-
partment, are meeting with no success
in the courts.
The four hay and fodder plants,
sorghum, millet and Hungarian, kafir
corn and alfalfa, increased in acreage
in the state from 9OS,s 1856 acres in 1895 |
to 1854, 1S1 acres last summer, or more |
than 100 per cent in five years.
Geo. N. Goddard, of Nortonville, has
just paid a judgment of $4,000 in
breach Of promise case, with 5000 in
terest and $500 costs. He is on old |
man and these payments nearly ex-
haust his income for one year.
The big engine at the penitentiary |
which furnishes power to run the shop |
machinery broke down, causing prac-
tical suspension of work. The engine |
has been In use for twenty-one years |
and this is its first breakdown.
Book publishers are notified that
copies of their publications, with bids,
must be sent to the school book COM
missioners, not later than April /, and |
that no bid will be received later than
4p, m. of May 6.
Kansas has next to the largest soap |
factory in the United States. 1t, like
the packing houses, brands its export |
products 'From Kansas City, U. S. A."
while all of them come from Kansas |
City, Kansas. Are these manufacturers
of soap and packers of animal products
ashamed of being located in Kansas?
Ed ]. Herring, a Santa Fe engineer,
has married Miss Nora NJ. Stone at
Wellington. They will make their
home at Hutchinson.
An Indiana corporate company has
promoters at work upon plan to Sc
cure gas leases within 100 miles of
Wichita and to pipe the product into
the city.
Harry Donmeyer, of New Cambria,
took 40 2-year-old native steers to
Chicago and sold them for s6.o5 per
cwt. The steers brought an average
of sos head.
Welcome Wells has died at his home