The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1902-03-07
KANsAo ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The Arkansas river case is up now
so is the river.
Topeka, or a portion of it, has an
epidemic of scarlet fever.
A Caldwell miller says he is receiving
5000 bushels of wheat day.
The Eighth U. S. cavalry has come
from Cuba and is stationed at Fort
Riley.
The contract for the marble work on
the ground floor of the Kansas state
house is contracted for at $l7,562.
Ordinary work horses sell at Salina
as high as S13O. Mules and cattle are
in demand at much increased prices.
Rock Island officials arrived at Hor-
ton on special train and while there
decided to rebuild the burned shops
The Kansas friends of General Fun
ston in Washington will tender him n
brilliant reception on his arrival there.
A good rain in most of the central
and eastern Kansas counties on Feb
ruary 81. In Fort Scott it was over an
inch.
Nineteen special clerks are to be en-
pioyed in the Wichita mail district
during March to weigh mails on the
railroad trains.
F. e. Presley, agent for the NJ. X. &
T. railway at Coffeyville, is dead. He
had been in the service of the company
for many years.
C. G. Sholes, superintendent of tcle-
graph of the Santa Fe has resigned.
He is succeeded by C. II. Gaunt of the
Northern Pacific.
The Santa lie freight car shops at
Topeka have been put upon ten hour
schedule There are 300 men employed
in this department.
The manager of the Leavenworth
street car system has been fined $50 for
discharging a man because he was
member of labor union.
The walls of the First Baptist church
at Hutchinson is all that is left stand
ing. The fire is supposed to have been
caused by defective fue.
j. B. Shane, Lawrence photog
rapher, 65 years old, shot and killed
Ed Katterman, young man, as he
was passing Shane's gallery door. No
provocation is known.
Resident Engineer j. M. Meade, of
the Santa Fe, served under Fitzhugh
Lee in Virginia and was present at the
battle of Fredericksburg when the gen.
eral was taken away for dead.
Benz, Harding, who settled in Doni-
phan county in 1916, as clerk at the
Iowa mission, was stricken with paral-
ysis recently He was the first rail
road station agent at Wathena.
For thirty days commencing March 1
the mails carried by Kansas railroads
will be weighed to form basis for the
amount to be paid the roads for carry
ing mails for the next four years.
In one of his Washington letters
Congressman Scott refers to Delegate
Rodey of New Mexico, and says; HE
was employed on the A. e. p. road in
that territory away back in 1881 at the
same time that l was Except that he
was doing office work while / was
herding mules"
The Rev. H. Walker, once Congre-
gational pastor at Emporia, Kan,
where he had reputation of using his
mouth rather recklessly, is now liable
to be bounced from the passionate of
suburban church of Chicago for re-
ferring to the Board of Trade men as
gamblers and robbers"
Farmers in southwestern Kansas
produced sugar beets which tested
higher than those produced in Ger
many, the home of that industry.
The executive committee of the State
Sunday School association named
Salina as the place and May 10 to Is as
the date of the next annual conven-
ton.
A receiver has been asked for the
Modern Tonties. Application is made
in the district court at Wichita, based
on the alleged ground that the order is
insolvent. The application was denied.
The highest authority in the United
States credits Kansas with producing
the best Johnathan, Missouri Pippin
and Ben Davis apples in the world.
The county treasurer of Mcpherson
county estimates that farmers of the
county, when through feeding, will
have used half million bushels of
wheat.
Sam1 Hayes, of Reno county, was
found dead in his feed lot, his body
partly covered with snow, and guarded
by his dogs keeping the cattle away
from it.
The United States supreme court has
upheld the constitutionality of the law