The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1902-05-09
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

work.
MANY Kansas wheat fields were
drifted over with sand in the storm of
last week.
There are 81 members of the grad
uating class of the ottawa high school
"a girls and boys.
As pension commissioner Mr.. Ware
win have no appointments to make eX-
cept the local pension boards.
Between $3.50, 900 and $500, 900 will be
expended by the government this year
on improvements at Fort Riley.
Principal f. II. Olney of the Law
renee high school had his face badly
broken up by kick from horse.
Many Santa Fe employees have made
very profitable investments OF their
savings by investing in the stock OF
the road when it was low.
Herington people propose to raise
Sc, 900 to dig 5000 foot hole in pros
pecting for gas or oil. They are en-
couraged by fattering indications.
Herkimer, on the st. Joseph Il Grand
Island railroad, west of Marysville,
was destroyed by fire. Only one busi-
ness house, drug store, escaped the hire.
II. A. McNeal, in his address to the
Baldwin high school graduating class,
called Baker 1.-The greatest preacher
factory west of the Mississippi river"
Near Lexington ]. w. Creech lost As
head of fine cattle from eating poison
ous weeds. The cattle were turned in
the pasture before the grass had much
growth.
Geo. Reitz, an electrician at Hutch
inson, is the only man in Kansas so far
as now known, who has received
personal invitation to attend King Ed
wards coronation.
d. w. Heath offered to furnish the
M. E. church at Peabody with a pipe
organ at his own expense if the church
was enlarged. The offer was accepted
and $1,000 was saised at a Sunday
morning service.
A negro shoemaker in a part OF To
peka inhabited by colored people, has
been insulting girls as they passed his
shop. The colored women of the neigh
borhood set an hour for him to leave
in time to escape suit of tar and
feathers. He left.
Miss NJ. E. Dolphin superintendent
of the public schools of Leavenworth,
has resigned, and the school board has
arranged to elect as her successor Prof.
d. w. Kendrick, of Newton. Before
going to Newton six years ago Prof.
Kendrick had been superintendent of
the schools of Clay Center and Junction
City.
VIM. H. Harden died at Marysville,
April 10, aged 20 years. He was vet
Gran of the Mexican and Civil wars and
was one of the leaders to the California
gold fields in 1s49 is a clipped
item. If the man was only 70 years
old little figuring shows the incon-
sistency of the story of the Mexican
war and the gold fields.
The framework on the large addition
being built to the Santa Fe depot in
Wichita, has been completed and the
corrugated iron work begun. The adj
dition is $50 feet long and when fin
ished the Santa Fee freight room will
be $40 feet long. In addition to this
the platform is 160 feet long and the
Office department 60 feet long. The
total length of the depot is 500
feet.
The county commissioners of Wash
ington county made an order that no
jointist sent to Jail will be released
until the full penalty is paid with costs.
Senator Burton, of Kansas, was the
chief speaker at a dinner given by the
Union League club, of Brooklyn, New
York, for General Grants birthday,
April 20.
The s3rd anniversary of Odd Fellow
ship was celebrated at Kingman by
lodges from towns near and far. The
next meeting in this district will be
held at Wichita next year.
There are five veterans who would
like to hold the office of register of
deeds in Sedgwick county. They have
asked the old soldiers of the county to
vote on them on May 10 to decide which
shall be the candidate.
The gas belt association of the Odd
Fellows celebrated the s3rd anniSer-
sary of the order at Garnett Special
trains brought lodges from La Harpe,
Colony, Wilde and other points, and
the Missouri Pacific brought delega-
tions from Yates Center, Westphalia
and Leroy.
Five young men of Burlingame who
served in the army in the Philippines