The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1902-03-28
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST,".

Secretary Coburn's reports show shat
buffalo grass grows in go counties OF
Kansas
Governor Stanley has appointed f..
c. Ellet as member of the penitentiary
board for term of three years.
The State Agricultural college is to
holds school for judging horses March
10 to 90. Owners of good horses are
invited to bring them.
Insurance rates at Olathe have been
reduced 10 per cent because of more
satisfactory arrangements concerning
the city fire department.
Henry s. Hall, who was at Ripon
college, Wisconsin, and died there of
pneumonia, was brought back to Kan
sas for interment. He attended Wash
burn college for five years.
A Rock Island conductor recently
took up pass which belonged to
Sheriff Smith and which he carried
when he was killed at Lawton. 1t
was presented by U. S. deputy mar
shall.
DR.. and Mrs. Inglis, of Usage City,
are going back to Pekin to re-enter the
missionary service of the Presbyterian
church and will resume charge of the
hospital which was destroyed by the
Boxers.
Parties who sold the land to the
Bourbon county socialist colony and
are members of the colony, have
brought suit for the purchase money
due and asked for the appointment of
a receiver.
A third man has been taken in,
charged with the murder of Geo. c.
Montgomery at Winfield, Ed Colby, of
Enid, formerly employed on the Miller
ranch. The other two are o. W. COT
felt and W. C. johnson.
Nemaha county has seven independ-
ent telephone lines in operation. A
meeting to be held March "a will like
ly form communion of interests in
these lines, so as to cover the whole
county without relays.
Elias Lamb, of Concordia, expects to
cut 40. 600 feet of lumber with the saw
mill he has put up. All the timber
which he is now working has grown
since 1871, in which year everything
that would make plank was worked
up.
In some northwestern towns of Kan
sas there exist branches of an associa-
ton called the Kansas Utopia club.
Its chief feature is plenty of strong
drink on tap. At Inman and at Smith
Center their Utopian scheme has been
interfered with in the way of confisca-
ton and fines.
Suburban and rural grocers about
Atchison have been buying packing
house fresh meats from Kansas City
packers and the town butchers knocked
and threatened until the small grocers
were cut out by the packers. Now the
small grocers refuse to buy lard, salt
meats and canned goods of any Kansas
City packer.
John T. Giles, of Wichita, has bought
a 5000 acre ranch in Comanche county
from Andrew II. Baker, for $4,000.
With the conveyance of the 5000 acres,
the lease on 1000 acres additional was
also conveyed, giving Mr.. Giles the use
of 3, 200 acres of land. The land is
fenced and improved. Three hundred
acres is sown in wheat and the rest is
covered with fine growth of buffalo
grass Mr. Giles will stock the ranch
with cattle and sheep.
John B. Kell, who was lumber
dealer and stock shipper at Clearwater,
died at Phoenix, Ariz., where he went
in the hope of regaining his health.
At Empire City two children were
burned to death. They were not to-
gether but each had been left in their
respective homes, while their mothers
were absent. At John Aliens house
were two children, one of whom was
rescued, but baby four months old
persisted. Frank Weatherby's house
caught fire and baby one year old
was burned.
Ottawa university, in its decision
against football will have the moral
support of all the mothers of Kansas
and most of the fathers too.
Jerry Simpson has $50 acres near
Roswell, N. NJ, and has left Wichita
with his family to make his home on
the land where he will handle blooded
stock.
Major II. b. Merrill, for 30 years a
prominent citizen of Saline county,
and owner of the Hope stucco mills,
died last week at WATERFOWL, n. Y,
aged 20 years.
The 1eproes of Miami county are to