The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1902-09-05
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

August 81 was the 39th anniversary
of the Quantrell raid on Lawrence.
Tom McNeal is to speak at the Ohio
association picnic at Ottawa OH Sep
tember4.
On Saturday night the card, Judge
Horton had sinking spell and became
unconscious.
Paroled youths from the state re-
formatory broke into hardware store
at Hutchinson.
The report of the state superinten-
dent will this year embrace statistics
of city schools for the first time.
The Santa Fe is soon to build new
depot at Baldwin. The old depot will
be made over for a freight house.
The fifth annual Ohio picnic was
held at Waverly. The attendance was
good considering the rain and mud.
A War dance will celebrate the open
ing of the Pottawatomie Indian school
at Nadeau, Kansas, on September 6.
The Smoky rivers August flood was
as big as the one that came in July.
The bottom lands were all under water.
Lieutenant Ralph Mcdowell, OF Man
haitian, Kan, was drowned at Fort
Clark, Texas, where he was stationed.
DIR. II. C. Stuntz, an Epworth League
lecturer, had his pocket picked OF $50
on stepping off the train at MoPher-
son.
The Winfield imbecile asylum con-
tains 2ss patients, thirty-two OF whom
cannot feed themselves and five are
blind.
Frank Nelson advises the people not
to buy any school books until it is set
tied by the courts whom they may buy
from.
An attempt will be made in the next
legislature to place the state charitable
institutions practically in a civil service
position.
Prof. Hugo Kahl, of Kansas univer-
sity, takes the chronological depart
ment of the Carnegie library at Pitts
burg, Pa.
Judge Albert II. Horton showed
slight improvement after reaching his
home in Topeka but physicians were
without hope.
E. L. Glasgow, of Salina, passed his
examination and will be commissioned
as captain in the regular army. He
served at Manila for time.
Governor Stanley has refused to
honor a requisition from Gov Savage,
of Nebraska, for L. c. Fitch, a Jewell
county farmer, who, it is charged,
stole herd of cattle in Nebraska and
drove them over the line.
CDR" j. P. Mapus made haul at
Arkansas City. He was going to buy
a hotel and start sanitarium there.
The people thought he had cash galore.
He left beating his creditors and his
board bill.
Falsirs are selling farmers CREAM
cry refrigerator" and taking notes
from them at big price and promising
TO call every week and pay 25 cents
pound for their butter. They never
come but notices come from banks that
their notes will come due at certain
dates.
The Rock Island system paid out
more money this month to its employees
at Goodland than for several years.
The pay of the train service was espe-
cially heavy, as a number of the men
drew checks of more than 5000. The
local bank paid pay checks amounting
to $751;
w. E. Thompson, Riley county
farmer, brought to town an ear of corn
with 90 rows containing 1920 grains
George Bliss heard of it and brought
in an ear with "a rows, bearing 1,4Ss
grains.
A corn contest at which, WAS WON
by three stalks; Is feet inches; ID
feet 10 inches and 10 feet inches high
all from one one field.
The employees of the Western Wooden
mill OF Topeka made up purse of
ST.. 40 for the relief of woman who
has been sick for 10 weeks.
Ripley w. Sparr, vice president of
the Lawrence National bank and
resident of Lawrence since 1857, is
dead. He was 70 years old. For many
years he was successful railroad con-
tractor.
Robert B. White, bechelor mer-
chant, the owner of the Chetopa cleo
trio light system, died of apoplexy in
his store at Chetopa on August 90.
Chas. Deplantz, of Coffeyville, went
hence by the carbolic acid special. He
had been on a prolonged spree. He
was AZ years old and left a family.
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