The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1902-02-28
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.


Prof. T. w. Conway of Sterling, is q
candidate for the presidency of the
Alva, Ok, normal school.
The Bell telephone central office al
Junction City, with barber shop un-
der it, have been Quilted by fire.
John V. Farwell, a Chicago whole
sale merchant, visited ottawa to assist
in conducting the revival there.
Lieut.. Adna G. Clarke has reported
for duty. He is assigned to the field
artillery at Fort Douglass, Utah.
Saml Mitchell, Caldwell real estate
man, thought he was drinking whisky
but it was chloroform and ether.
The quarterly payment of pensions
from the Topeka Office, commencing on
February A, amounted to SO, 4s3, 74o.3 80.
The Kingman Journal announces
that "since the advance in the price OF
wheat, rubber-tired buggies have been
seen on the streets"
DIR. w. H. Richards, of Emporia, has
purchased nine Percherons, Belgians
and big French draft horses, paying
500, 900 for the nine.
An excellent program has been pre-
pared for the 18th annual meeting of
the State Dairy association at Manhat-
tan on March to 8.
Rumors are afloat all along the line
that the Frisco will build new line
from Wichita to Blackwell, Okla, and
from there to Sapulpa, /. L.
The Kansas Horticultural society has
Just received handsome gold medal
from Paris, as reward for the exhibit
of Kansas apples at the Paris exposi-
ton of 1900.
Henry Grice of White Rock township
has lot Of 1899 corn which he held
over and which he is selling for seed
corn. It's about the same as SO much
goldsmith County Journal
J. A. Peel of Finney county recently
sold Jersey red hog that was raised
on alfalfa ard finished with 800 pounds
of corn. The hog netted him $24. 80,
the profit paying his taxes for 1901.
The Grain Growers association meet
ing will be held at Hutchinson on
March 4. A rate of one and one-third
fare has been granted from all points
in Kansas, Oklahoma and Nebraska.
The free delivery service will be es-
tablished at Wellington, Kas., June l,
which was discontinued in 1895, with
three regular and one substitute letter
carrier, and seven street letter boxes.
Eugene f. Ware of Kansas, has been
appointed by the president, member
of the visitors to attend the annual eX-
animation at the National Military
Academy at West Point, in June 1902.
1t is said that the extension of the
Missouri Pacific from Mcpherson to
Marquette, Kans., about fifteen miles,
will be built the coming summer. 1t
is also stated that line will be built
from Salina north to Yuma, KS, about
forty-five miles.
e. B. Denison, Chicago man, pro-
poses to put $275,oOO into a sugar mill
at Independence this spring, and have
it ready to handle the sorghum crop of
1902. He asks for gas well and a site
for his mill He is asking the farmers
b make contracts to grow 1900 acres
of sorghum the coming season; for
which he will pay S1.5o a ton at the
factory.
J. H. Clark of Lyon county is hero.
He had dynamite in box near stove
to thaw it. He left the room and upon
returning saw that the box was on
fire. He carried it out in his arms and
threw water on it.
Palmyra grocers refuse to buy butter
from farmers who order everything
from Chicago. The ladies of a church
bazaar of Palmyra, wrote to the Chi
cago firm which has been filing their
mail orders for a contribution, and the
firm replied that it confined its giving
to charity to their home town. See?
Senator Burton has been honored by
being called to preside over the senate.
The honor consists of this having oc-
Cured so early in his first term.
A Wisconsin paper, in Dragging on
the per capita wealth of county up
there says mot even in Kansas is
there a county that can show such
wealth"
Dr. E. r. Switzer, of Salina, is cred
tied with being the first man in Kansas
sas to have an alfalfa field. In 1874 he
put in two acres. He obtained the
seed in San Francisco.
The State Railroad Commission has
been notified that the next legislature
will be asked to pay per diem and