The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1902-08-22
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREsT.

Kingman county has had two inch
rain and everybody is happy.
Grading has commenced on trolley
line from Olathe to Kansas City.
John b. Richardson, of Kansas, has
been appointed consul at Utilla, Hon
duras.
Travelling men have started fund
to appeal the case of Jessie Morrison,
of Ell Dorado.
There has not been case called in
the Concordia police court for more
than month.
Major Hood, of Emporia, has won
his suit, the one Martindale brought
against him charging fraud.
The Rock Island has followed the
Missouri Pacific in granting reduc-
ton on packing house products.
Several districts of Dickinson county
are arranging to unite under the town.
ship school plan and have graded
schools.
Clay county schools will mostly have
longer terms next winter, and the
teachers are to have an increase in
their pay.
There are 4s farming implement
manufacturers which have representa-
tives in Wichita, who give employment
to 296 people.
The Kansas university has just re-
ceivcd one of the rarest swimming rep
tiles of the old cretaceous ocean. 1t is
ten feet long.
Within short time there have been
seven men arrested in Topeka by the
United States marshal for selling
liquor to Indians.
The old settlers of Reno county held
their annual picnic at Hutchinson on
the 18th, upon the 3Oth anniversary of
the creation of Reno county.
A message from Wisconsin states that
Judge A. Ii. Horton is somewhat i'm
proved in condition and that he is able
to take little exercise each day.
Two men, by name Joe Bush and A.
]. Nix, have been arrested at Paola on
the charge of robbing the postofiice at
Wagstaff, Miami county. The office
was rifled of S59s.
Judge Hook, of Leavenworth, grant
ed an injunction enjoining G. w. Crane
and others from interfering with the
American Book company. The case is
to be heard in Wichita August Is.
Mrs. Rebecca Buckley Burlset, who
has just died at Holton, was a grand
daughter of John Hart, one of the
signers of the Declaration of Indepen-
dence. Mrs. Burkett was rs years old.
Prof. and Mrs. d. A. Ellsworth of
the state normal at Emporia, are to
make 1000 mile voyage along the
coast of Labrador in the interest Of the
department of geography of that
school.
Ralph Carter Harrison, of Colwich,
one and half years old, has to his
credit in bank s., 900 and title TO S7,7O7
worth of land. The fortune was left
to him by his grandfather, James
Greenfield, of Ohio.
A fire at Parsons started in a grocery
store and destroyed $4,000 stock. 1t
reached department store and did
much damage. The second story was
occupied by offices and lodges, all of
which sustained losses.
w. w. Woodruff, a goat ranchman
of Texas, was with carload of goats
which were yarded at Arkansas City to
be fed. In the yard huge hornets
nest was disturbed and about 20 of the
goats died from being stung.
The Missouri Pacific depot at Clyde
was robbed by two men who held up
the night operator and opened the
money drawer. They could not open
the safe which contained 81, 900. Sheriff |
Moore arrested the burglars near Rice.
]. F. Minnick threshed the crop of
wheat from sc acres at Hillsdale, with
total yield of 1889 bushels and an
average yield of 3615 bushels to the
acre. The wheat was standard weight.
Four acres of this field made 179 bush
els, or lax bushels to the acre, which
tested 81 pounds to the bushel.
Engineer Charles Singleton, of the
Missouri Pacific, has disappeared. He
left the dinner table at his boarding
house and went out and has not been
seen since. This occurred sometime
since. He left all his personal effects
at the boarding house.
The Kings Daughters have fitted up
a room in the city building in Wichita
for the use of the working young
women to spend their noon hour and
bring their lunches. The room is nicely
furnished with every convenience and