The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1902-05-16
KANsAs ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Faulty SIDEWALKS nave cost Salna
So, 1921 during the past year in pay
ing damages to individuals.
The thirty-eight building and loan
associations doing business in Kansas
have assets of over 81, OOO,O 900.
Concordia papers are confident that
the north and south railroad line
through their town is sure go.
Two boys have been promoted for
good conduct from the reform school
at Topeka to the Orphans home at
Atchison.
An old army comrade of the father
of Fred Bradford, of Concordia, who
died recently in Pennsylvania, left
Fred $500.
The United Commercial Travellers of
Kansas, including the Oklahoma City
council, have a good time at Emporia
on May 0-1o.
A Larned widow has been arrested
for cruelty beating an adopted daugli-
ter, an orphan child 10 years old. She
was fined 500.
A wholesale egg and poultry com
mission. house in Topeka is burned 1t
was the largest one between Kansas
City and Denver.
The millers of Concordia decided to
bring suit against Nebraska for divert
ing the waters of the Republican river
into irrigating bitches in that state.
A reception to all the ministers of
Wichita was given by Mrs. Robert
Guthrie in honor of Rev. Henry Thayer
upon the eve of his removal to Topeka
During the sixteen years that Judge
Stillwell has held district courts he
never has sentenced woman to the
pcnitentiary until his last term of court
at Erie.
A Great Bend young lady who is
gathering the autographs of her friends
tells the Tribune that there is no orig
inal poetry in her album, but that it
does contain a great deal of original
spelling.
The Universalist State convention
which was to have met in Wichita on
May 81, has been postponed until the
latter part of June, because of the Re-
publican state convention named for
the same date.
ton of Library hall at the state agri-
cultural college. The winning bid
was 50, 055, which does not include the
heating and lighting fixtures. The
building is to be finished by Sept. l.
The forty-eighth annual session of
the general association of Congrega-
tional ministers and churches of Kan
sas, and the Woman's Missionary So
cieties of the state hold their annual
meeting at Manhattan, May to 10.
The New Jersey Zinc company, one of
the oldest and probably the richest zinc
smelling company in the world, has
bought two shelters at Gas City, near
lola, and will add more. The company
has extensive purchases of gas lands.
The Santa Fe special train which
took the Foresters to Los Angeles to
their annual meeting was composed of
one baggage car, two diners, one tour
list sleeper, and nine Pullman sleepers;
thirteen in all. This train, with
weight of $50 tons, passed over the 4s5
miles from Chicago to Kansas City in
10 hours and So minutes. 1t was drawn
by the kind of an engine "that don't
seem to know when they are carrying
load"
An expert coal miner says that there
is coal in Smith county. He suggests
that tax of few mills on the dollar
be levied for the purpose of prospect
ing, and declares that it would be the
best investment ever made by the
county.
The body of a man was found beside
the Santa Fee railway tracks at Morris,
Kan, so badly mangled that the feat
ures could not be recognized. Paper
found gave clue by which it was dis
covered that the man was a Robert
Corl1ins, of Arkansas City, Kas.
The River Brethren missionaries
who went from Dickinson county to
India, have had their mission at Decca
destroyed. They escaped with their
lives.
Miss Orbie Wonderlich, the daughter
of an Osborne county farmer, won the
Ottawa university scholarship offered
the pupil making the best grade in the
Alton public school, standing first in
class of "a. Miss Orbie walked six
miles to school every morning, and was
neither absent no tardy during the
term.
Carnegie gave $4,000 for library to
Newton, asking the city to appropriate
81 900 year to run it. Newton APP