The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1902-06-27
KANSAS ITEMS or INTEREST.

Oil and Gas company is to drill for oil
at Oberlin at once.
Zinc workers at Cherryvale struck
because of the 81 a month assessment
for medical services.
The fifth district log rolling of the
Modern Woodmen will he held at Abb
lene on August 81.
On June 10 the Missouri Pacific was
under water at lola, and passengers
were transferred in boats.
Nine state banks were installed last
week. This is the largest number ever
set at work in the state in one week.
Harry Severant, aged 10, of suburb
of Topeka, lost his life in trying to
rescue his little dog from drowning.
The state board of charities are pur-
chasing supplies to last to the end of
the year. 1t will require S25, 900 worth.
The Anthony salt plant has been
placed by the railroads on an equal
footing with those at Hutchinson as to
rates.
The assessors found the population
of Hutchinson to be 10,254, a gain of
PAS during the last year and of nearly
4 900 since 1900.
;. James A. Beates, of Junction City,
has been appointed an observer in the
weather bureau to be located outside
of Washington.
James Page, a colored teacher of To-
peka, received word from Charles Cur
tbs that he had been appointed to a
clerlkship in the pension Office.
VIM. &. Allison, steward of the in
stitution for the deaf and dumb at
Olathe, is dead, aged GO years. He
was veteran of the civil war and his
home was at lola.
The Wellington Mail says the presi-
dent Of the leading bank in that town
pays taxes on $50 worth of personal
property, while barber in the base
ment of the bank pays taxes on $l20
worth.
Sunday harvesting has been feature
in Kansas always to some extent, but
it has probably occurred to greater eX-
tent this harvest than usual. The
rains have been interfering with the
work.
Eliza J. Graham, widow of Robert st.
Clair Graham, an early judge of the
Atchison district court, who died at her
home in Moberly, Mo-, was daughter
of DR.. w. II. Grimes, who settled in
Atchison in 1858.
VIM. Cockerill, an old citizen of Mar
shall county, was drowned in Blue
river. He was crossing in boat and
the swift current capsized the boat
He was 70 years old and had lived at
Marysville SO years.
Rev. Albert Watkins, of the Salina
Episcopal church, has accepted the
archdeaconry of southern Missouri,
with headquarters at Springfield, and
he will leave in few days for his new
field of church work.
Personal property assessment in
Shawnee county shows valuation of
81, 43s, 0s0 for the city of Topeka, and
SIS, 672, ITO for the rest of the county.
And it is so with most every article on
the assessors returns.
The Sixth battery which took the
seven new field guns on carriage test
on trip from Fort Riley to Topeka
and return, made firing test on their
arrival at the post. The battery will
be sent back to the Sandy Hook prov
ing grounds.
The government pays certain sum
TO the state for each veteran soldier
supported in the State home at Dodge
City. The last remittance received at
the state treasury was $4,000.
Eunice Batch and Bertha Woolsey,
two little country misses of Cowley
county, recently wrote a letter to Teddy
Roosevelt, Jr, telling him about things
in Kansas and asking him about things
in Washington. And Teddy responded
with a gentlemanly little letter to each
of the girls. Those letters are likely
to be long preserved.
w. II. Parsons, agent for the Chicago
Rock Island & Pacific road at Holton
Kan, died at the home of his parents
at Lamont, Mo-, of diabetes. He wa
to have been married to Miss Marth;
Drake, of Holton, on the day following
that of his death.
Decatur county has 1O,264 acres il
alfalfa. Last year it had COIL acres
In wheat the county has 1924 acres
against 1,s23 acres in 1901. The ay
erage of corn has fallen off about 500
acres, there being only 1o2, 1893 acre
this year.
There are three separate interests i
building an electric line between KaI
sas C;ty md Tonelxa. the third on