The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1902-07-04
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

j. P. Wharton, travelling salesman
of Atchison, was accidentally shot and
killed at Leon, Iowa.
The Home Riverside coal mines at
Leavenworth have been attached by a
bank which holds claim of $34, 1855.
The Methodist church at Hutchinson
has become reconciled to it's pew pastor
and has raised his salary from $500 to
81, 500 year
James A. Beates, of Junction City,
has been appointed an observer in the
weather bureau to be located outside
of Washington.
Senator Burton was one of the two
senator's who made speeches in the eau
Gus of Republican senators against Gu
ban reciprocity.
Smith Center has a right to brag
over the statement made there that the
town fellows consume fewer cigarettes
than in any other town in the state.
Miss Maggie McDermott found arte-
sian water at a depth of 129 feet on
her farm in Ford county. The well
sent six-inch column of water eight
feet above the surface.
R. j. Demange, aged so years, died
at Eureka, on June %. He was her.
NIT and was brother of M. Demange,
who assisted in the defense of Dreyfus
the famous French soldier.
Atchison county farmers wives and
daughters worked in the harvest be-
cause of the shortage of harvest hands.
Atchison dealers sold double the
amount of binding Irvine they expected
to sell.
shopmen TO Atchison for their annual
outing and picnic The fare was fifty
cents for the round trip. Marshall's
band went along. The trains were
sent out 90 minutes sps<t
The traclilayers of the Orient and
worxmen and watchers of the Choctaw
had contest lasting two or three days,
when the Orient gang laid tracks at
the crossing of the Choctaw south of
Anthony, on the state line.
The following Kansas postmasters
have been appointed: Geo. b. Croolser,
Anthony; James A. Arment, Dodge
City; George w. Watson, Kinsley;
Frank e. Davis, Larned; Martin l..
Grimes, Lyons; Benjamin A. Bond,
Sterling.
The Missouri and Kansas Telephone
company has bought the Fort Scott in
dependent telephone system together
with number of independent systems
centering in towns in that section of
the state. More of the latter would be
bought in if their material was worth
anything to the company.
A. G. Campbell, founder of Campbell
university, at Holton, died at his home
in Riverside, Cal, recently. Twenty
years ago he furnished half the money
to build the university. This was five
years after he left Jackson county and
went to Salt Lake. 1t was expected
that Mr. Campbell would leave large
sum by will to the university.
The southwestern corner counties of
Kansas rejoice over the prospect of get
ting the Denver, Enid & Gulf railroad.
This is especially true of Grant county
which has never had track. The line
as projected will run up the valley of
the north fork of the Cimarron to the
bend north of Ulysses and then through
the sand hills, crossing the sand hills,
crossing the sand hills at Kendall.
Mr.. Numes, from Illinois, has pur-
chased ,420 acres of Butler county
land for S27, 900. 1t lies near Leon on
make the place his home and use it as
a stock farm.
s. R. Smith, who served in the civil
war in New York regiment and came
to Emporia in 1865, dropped dead from
heart failure on June II.
Thirty-fve union carpenters of Atch-
ison who struck against local contract
ors, went to work again having failed
to gain any one of their demands.
George w. Newman, of Valley Center,
has sold 323 acres of land to Z. G.. Bell,
for $1,000. The land is all improved
farm land near Valley Center.
A majority of the business firms of
Great Bend have signed an agreement,
bound by a cash forfeit, to not use any
prize gift schemes in their business.
Wise merchants.
The body of Harry Trowbridge,
whose home was at Galena, Kas, has
been found among the victims of the
snow slide at the Liberty Bell mine at
Telluride, Colo, on February %.
The census bulletin gives the average
price of farms in Kansas at SO, 1923 and