The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1902-11-28
Kansas Events
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ports of the county superintendent o.
schools can be relied upon, twenty five
counties in the state have no colored
school children. They are: Cheyenne
Comanche, Decatur, Elk, Cove, lGrant
Greeley, Hamilton, Haskell, Jewell
Kearny, Kingman, Lane, Meade, Ness,
Rawlins, Rush, Scott, Seward, Sheri'
dan, Sherman, Smith, Stanton, Thorn
as and Wichita.
JUDGE MAsoN's WAY.-Henry f.
Mason, of Finney, newly elected SUI
preme judge, will not employ woman
as his stenographer. Several of the
judges have woman stenographers and
when Mason's election was assured sew
eral women applied for the job us his
stenographer. He has turned down
their applications. He will employ a
man.
FEES OF PROBATE JUDGEs.-The at
torney general holds that the officers
cannot retain $1.50 per hundred col
lected for filing applications of drug
gists to sell liquor, but these fees must
be turned into the treasury and at the
end of the year he can draw SIS for
every thousand of population in the
county in lieu of such fees.
NOVEMBER STRAWBERRIES Ernest
Cheney's farm is north of Topeka. He
brought a crate of straw berries to mar
ket. The vines were SO heavy that the
early frosts did not injure the fruit,
which was of good size and flavor
| Should there be no severe weather soon
he will have two-acre crop for
Thanksgiving.
SIGNS OF HARD WINTER.-The prairie
dogs, it is said have retired to their
burrows after throwing up high
mounds This is considered the sign
of hard winter; the higher the mounds
the more severe the winter.
A SIS, 900 LABOR TEMPLE.--Organized
labor in Topeka proposes to erect
labor temple next year at cost of $15,-
900. The temple will be used by the
different unions and also by the CEN
trail labor organization.
STREET PAVING IN IoLA.-The work
of paving the streets has commenced.
1t is the first paving ever done in lola.
Sewers are being put in also. The
year 1903 will witness some great
changes in that city.
SITE LECTED.-Assistant Secretary
of the Treasury Taylor has selected
the site for the federal building in
Hutchinson, Kans., at the northwest
corner of Sherman and Walnut streets,
price $1,000.
DosTER's NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
ment is officially made of the appoint
ment Of Judge Frank Doster to be as
sistant attorney of the Missouri Pacific
railway with headquarters at Topeka.
RAISED IN BUTLER CoUNTY.-U. S.
Webb, chosen for attorney general of
California on the Republican ticket,
was reared on farm in Butler county,
Kansas.
FIREMAN's RELIEF FUND.-This fund,
which comes from foreign insurance
companies doing business in cities of
Kansas, will this year amount to about
$25, 900.
A REMARKABLE WRECK.-An entire
passenger train, engine and all, went
over on It's side near Roper, in Wilson
county, and not person was injured.
APPLE HARvEsT.-T. D. Mills, Of
Topeka has gathered and shipped $500
bushels Of apples from his orchard,
which is three miles from Wamego.
90 PER CENT CoLoRED.-The poor
commissioners say that 90 per cent of
those who apply to him for aid are
colored.
WANTED HIS CoLLATERAL-Ge
Dunlap, a prominent farmer, is under
arrest at Herington, charged with at
tempting to compel James McNaspy,
at the point of a revolver, to release
certain collateral held by the First Ma
tional bank of that city. Dunlap has
been placed under bonds.
BOOMING HARRIS -Leading Kansas
Republicans, including many editors
are heartily approving the prospective
appointment of Senator Harris, of Kan
sas as the Democratic member of the
isthmian canal commission.
DIR. Snow Communicable. f.
H. Snow of the University of Kansas
has received an invitation TO dinner
to be given at the Hotel Cecil in Lon
don on November 81 to the editors and
contributors to the last edition of the
Encyclopedia Britannia. DIR. Snow was
one of the contributors to the publica-
ton.
SAMPLES OF Products. Space al
lotted for that purpose in the Wichita
city building is being filed with sam
pies of farm products of Sedgwicls
county.
LuIING's CUosFN.-Insurance Super