The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1902-05-23
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

L ne ram OF May Is was especially
heavy in the wheat belt.
Fred Roster is fattening l,s0O cattle
at Miltonvale for the market.
Fire at Pomona destroyed general
store and contents; loss, total.
The Ell Dorado high school gradua
ted class of 20 of whom 16 were girls.
The business section of Carbonate
was burned on May -. The cause of
the fire is unknown.
The May term of the district court of
Norton county did not have a single
case on the docket.
The Santa Fe ice house at Argentine,
destroyed by fire on May l, was the
second largest on the Santa Fe system.
The Santa. Fe ran special train
from Salina to Emporia for the benefit
of the Commercial Travellers gather
ing.
Commencement exercises at Baker
university will be held on June 5.
There are II men and fourteen women
in the graduating class.
N. b. Burge, state house stenogra-
pher, in Topeka, has, on his Kaw bot
tom farm, 80 acres of cucumbers, esti-
mated to contain AS, 900 hills.
From 1883 to 1900 the Third district
of Kansas never gave Republican
ma jority, and in 1900 the Republican
candidate for congress was beaten.
John Everett was washing window
on the third floor of a building in To-
pelsa, and slipped fell to the alley, and
received injuries thought to be falal.
Two thousand of the Santa FEES shop
men in Topeka have joined in boy
colt of the beef trust, pledging them
selves to buy no dressed beef for 80
days.
A large general store at Quenemo is
burned. Over the store Miss Dellie
lived. She lost everything, including
a $500 piano.
The Kansas commissioners for the
Louisiana Purchase exposition are Wis
iting the manufacturing towns of the
state to inspire the making of exhibits
at st. Louis.
The state board of assessors has fixed
a basis for the assessment of all tele
graph lines in Kansas. The first wire
and poles assessed at S65 II mile, and
each additional wire at $40 a mile.
State superintendent Frank Nelson
is to take part in the debate before the
National Teachers association meeting
at Minneapolis, Mimi, on Should the
State Teachers reading circle work be
made compulsory"
The courts are Systematically provi-
ding boarding places in safe places for
managers of joints run as branches of
the Kansas Utopian association; the
latest instance being reported from
Plainville, Rocks county.
The judicial district embracing the
counties of Douglas, Franklin and An
derson, has not had conviction for
murder in the first degree for seven
teen years, until the late conviction of
Shane, the Lawrence photographer, for
killing young man.
Paramount college has been recog-
nized by the Kansas Congregational as
ISOLATION. 1t has been for years re-
ceiving $4,000 annually from the Ma
tional Congregational Educational So
ciety. 1t now stands on an equality
with Washburn college with both socie-
ties.
Rain fell in every county in Kansas
during last week, varying from three
tenths Of an inch to two inches and
over The lightest rainfall was in
Morton county and the heaviest in Elk
county.
There are six candidates in the field
for department commander of the G.
A. R. of Kansas-Colonel Anthony of
Leavenworth, Charles Harris of EN-
poria, j. B. Remington of Osawatomie,
Colonel Loomis of Winfield, L. c.
Weldy of Galena, and r. A. Campbell
of Hutchinson.
Thirty years ago Major Powell, of
Wichita, was given a valuable watch
by the Masonic fraternity, which he
was wearing at the time he met death
in runaway. The watch has not
been found.
Talk in group in Topeka the other
day turned on the question of the
'"well-fxed" men of Northwest Kansas.
1t was finally decided that Elmer Ames
of Norton leads in the treasures of this
earth, with Joe Burrow of Smith Cen
ter, second, and I. A. Rodgers, of Be
lott, third.
The town of Ames, in Cloud county,
has lost it's principal part by fire. The