The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1902-07-25
KANSAS ITEMS OF INrEREsT.

lBnts III tne Guy.
Ex-State Treasurer Otis L. Alberton
is slated for one of the places of the
Wakeeny land Office.
The citizens of Ports, Smith county,
offer reward of $50 for the arrest and
conviction of bootlegger.
Charles Voc, of independence, sue
ceeds Edwin Snyder, of Oslsaloosa, as a
member of the state board of charities.
Brent X. Yates, a Hiawatha drug
gist, accidentally killed himself. His
rife was discharged while he was load
ing it.
Thousands of shocks of wheat foated
down the Missouri river past Atchison
having been washed from fields farther
up the river.
Ex-U. S. Senator Martin is contract
ing for right of way for railroad
which C. ]. Devlin, the big coal opera
tor is building in Illinois.
Robert Harvey, of Finney county,
has five acres of sugar beets growing
without irrigation, from which he eX-
poets an 500 an acre crop.
NJ. A. Rogers, of Wichita, has gone
to New Mexico for the purpose of buy
ing 10000 sheep to eat Sedgwick county
corn. He is an experienced sheep
feeder.
The Salina banks report a large
amount of counterfeit dollars and for
eign fractional currency in circulation.
The majority of the coins bear dates of
1898 and 1901.
Mrs. N. C. Blood, who died recently
at Des Moines, Iowa, was the wife of
Thomas w. Barber, the free state
martyr of 1855, and for whom Barber
county was named.
A Pratt merchant placed his money
in a waste basket when he closed his
store for the night and the clerk who
opened up in the morning burned the
contents of the basket
The Argentine water plant was sub
merged on July II. The Kaw river
was still rising and the town was at
the mercy of flames; and there was
water famine imminent.
Since January last there have been
101 farms sold in Leavenworth county.
They contained s,952 acres of land.
The aggregate price was 1896, 566, an
average of $37.60 per acre.
The state railroad commissioners are
spending this week on tour of the
Santa Fe system. Their annual in
spection will continue until all the
roads have been gone over.
The postmaster general has allowed
the postmaster at Wichita three addi-
tional letter carriers on September
for the extension of service to Fair
mount and the stock yards
The governor has approved the ac-
ton of the state military board in To-
eating the state encampment of the
militia at Emporia. THE time fixed
upon is the week beginning August 10.
The boiler of threshing machine
exploded near Mound Ridge, killing
Arson Crippen and seriously injuring
Charles Nippleton and John Friesen,
farm hands. Crippen was literally
roasted alive.
John Seaton is nominated by acclaim
alton to represent Atchison county in
the legislature again. This will give
him ten consecutive terms, if he is
elected, as he has been a member of
nine legislatures, or for eighteen years
continuously.
The assessors returns show Fort
Scott to have gained in population
2,23s in the past year, making the pop
ulation 1889.
The Parsons yards of the NJ. X. & T.
road are in the city and because of ac-
cidents the yards are to be moved out
side as soon as suitable site can be
secured.
Mrs. Charles Marsh, of Peabody, was
using her gasoline stove when it ex-
ploded and set fire to the house. Every
thing in the house was burned except
an organ and few chairs.
1t is stated that C.. f. Ressigue will
go to the Mexican Central at a higher
salary than he received from the Santa
Fe Later: Ressiguie denies this.
The Newton Republican tells of a
reunion of the Ely family in Newton.
Mr.. and Mrs J. L. Ely are each 20
years old, and all of their seven chill
dren were present, the eldest 4s and
the youngest 30 years old. In this
family of seven children, twenty
grandchildren and one of still another
generation, there never has been a
death.
James f. Legate, the old politician
of Leavenworth, is SO far recovered