The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1902-02-14
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.


of it's @ per cent bonds by replacing
with as per cent bonds.
j. w. Rush, the eX-banlser and poll
tician of Larned, died on Feb. l at
Lawton, Okla, where he had gone on
business.
Fire has destroyed in Lexington a
meat market, a doctors office, and
damaged a furniture store and the
postoffice.
Records show that the first company
of colored soldiers raised for the Union
army was raised in Linn county, Kan
sas, in 1862
Superintendent Frank Nelson has n
second circular out on the consolidation
of rural schools. The first circular was
well received.
Frank B. Orr, a merchant of Harper,
has shot himself. He seemed worried
over his business, although he was well
fixed financially.
Fire at Erie destroyed four business
places on the morning of Feb. 1. The
row was in the center of the business
portion of the city.
The supreme court has decided to
take up the Jessie Morrison case in full
court. The case had been assigned to
n division Of the court.
The receipts of the internal revenue
at the collectors Office for Kansas and
Oklahoma for the month of January
amounted to $54, 273.15.
Martin Reilly of st. Marys, market
ed 81 Aberdeen-Augus and Galloway
steers of his own raising, at Sc 80. They
averaged AL pounds.
A Leavenworth, Kansas and Western
train was wrecked at Leonardville by
snow drifts and Henry j. Ortman, the
mail clerk, was badly bruised.
The title given the Missouri Pacific
railroad company to what is now
Lowers addition to Ell Dorado has
been decided to be a good title.
The republican state convention at
Wichita will probably meet on May ~
instead of the 2Sth, so that delegates
may get home for Memorial day.
The contract for painting and deco
rating the courtroom, ante room and
Judges chamber of the Topeka, Kans.,
federal building has been awarded at
S735.
Mrs Brooke mother of ex-President
d. M. Brooke, of Lane University at
Lecompton was perhaps fatally burned
at her home She is II years old and
feeble
The state Society of Labor at its SEES
sion at Topeka discussed the presenting
of bill to the next Legislature for
establishing state board Of arbi-
tration.
Trainmen on the Kiowa branch from
Wichita say that almost every farmer
southwest of the city has a small ice
house and they were filing them with
inch ice.
The brief in the case Of Kansas
against Colorado in the matter of the
use of the water of the Arkansas river,
has been filed in the United States
supreme court.
The Kansas University Phi Gamma
Delta fraternity has held a reunion at
which former members of the society
and alumni of other chapters in the
West were present.
There are SO railway postal clerks
on the payroll of the Wichita district
The amount they are paid annually for
railway mail service through the Wich
tia postoffice is S33, 900.
Topeka has an industrial school for
girls with 500 enrolled. There is Il
like school for boys with an average
attendance of 100 Both of these were
organized and are under the direction
eff Mrs. Thorpe, the police matron.
Young natives and the more recent
IN coming to Kansas of the present
population do not know that Colorado
was once part of Kansas and that in
1856 Arapahoe county voted for dele
gate from Kansas and in 1857 was
represented by member in the Kan
sas legislature.
Jesse Cook, son of the sheriff of
Shawnee county, declined an appoint
ment to West Point, which was tender
ed to him by Congressman Curtis. !
A farmer in Cherokee county who
allowed a man to put lightning rods on
his house "for nominal sum, in order
TO advertise Them" and put his sigma
ture to contract, found out later that
the signature was on the business end
of note for $500. After wrangle a
compromise was effected and Mr.. Mis-
guided Farmer got out on payment of
S175.