The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1902-12-19
KANSAS COMMENT.

FEES TURNED IN.---The various de-
partments of the state government have
turned into the treasury over $500, ooo
in fees during the last year.
WOMEN SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENTs.-
There are 25 Kansas counties which
have elected them and the. number
grows larger at every biennial cleo
ton.
BoUGuT EAGLE CITY LoTs.-Many
Marshall county people are Interested
in the opening of Eagle City, the new
Oklahoma town, having purchased lots
in that city.
A FEDERAL SITE Representative
jackson prepared bill to proAde for
the purchas, of a site for federal
building at Winfield, and had it intro
duced in the house
FIRE AT LInCoLN CENTER.-A hire
started at o'clock a. m. in restaurant
which burned, together with vacant
building and Morgans general store.
The loss is estimated at $4,000.
.CULp GETS IT.-Edward G. Culp, OF
Salina, has been appointed secretary OF
the committee on ceremonies for the
st. Louis exposition. He served in
similar capacity in Chicago in 1890.
KANSAS HORSES. Several carloads of
horses have been recently shipped from
Abilene to Chicago, where they topped
Che market. The farmers received 500
for most any kind of a good horse.
WILL DOUBLE THE LANT.--John
Cudahy visited the Cudahy packing
plant in Wichita and announced that
within year the capacity of the plant
will be doubled at cost of 100000.
SOME BIG APPLES. students of
st. John military academy at Salina
have received a barrel of apples from
near Guthrie, o. T., which averaged
Is inches around and 10 ounces in
weight.
LYON COUNTY COURT HOUSE. The
LYON county court house has been ac-
cepted by the county commissioners
from the contractor, after two days
discussion of extra claims. The court
house, complete, cost about $4,000.
The original contract for the building
alone was $4,000. The furnishings,
light and fixtures are the latest kind
and very fine.
WHIsK BROOM FACTORY. - Senator
Bob Findlay, of Rice county, will en-
deavor to get a bill through the legis-
lature this winter establishing whisl
broom factory at the Hutchinson re-
formatory, to be run by inmates. The
reformatory is at the edge of the great
broom belt of Kansas. This state has
no whisk broom factories. In fact,
most of the whislz brooms are made by
convict labor in other states.
GOOD FINANCIERING,- Cove county's
total bonded indebtedness, including
county, township, city and school dis-
trict, aggregates only 5000. This
amount was issued by ono township for
cemetery purposes. When Cove wants
to make an improvement it makes n
tax levy to cover the cost instead of is
suing bonds to run long period of
wears, drawing big rate of interest.
-Four. PLAY FEARED. AT Pittsburg
A. b. Marston, assistant general man
ager of the Texas &c Pacific Coal CON-
pany, who died there, was IA victim of
arsenic poisoning. Marston has been
trying to induce colored miners to go
TO Thurber, Texas, and it is thought
his death was brought about by some
one opposed to his work in this line.
The poison was taken in bottle of
mineral water.
WORST OF BARGAlN.-Sincet the state
has paid salaries to court reporters and
taken stenographers fees instead
the courts have been lax in collecting
the fees, putting the state to the loss of
about $40, 900 a year. The legislature
is likely to go back to the old system of
giving the stenographers the fees.
MINE INSPECTION. - The supreme
court upheld in decision the law re-
quiring coal mining companies to en-
ploy competent men to inspect the
mines every morning before the miners
go to work.
SAFE BLOWING GANG.-Sheriff j. l..
Seitz has arrested three men for safe
blowing at Galva on the morning of
November 81, and it is believed that in
their arrest he has unearthed scheme
to loot safes all over the country and
particularly those of small postoffices.
ELEVENTH KANSAS SURVIVORS.
Companies L and C were represented at
the annual reunion at Emporia upon
the anniversary of the battle of Prai-
rie Grove p. b. Plumb was the first
cantain of Co, c. and later was colonel