The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1902-08-29
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST,".

ter and larger than ever before.
Earl Porter, of Ellis, was probably
fatally hurt while getting off of pas
senger train.
1t has been decided at Cottonwood
Falls to hold fall festivities in a grove
on October 8 and 4.
A Hutchinson hotel man supposed he
had planted an acre of canteloupes but
the vines grew cucumbers.
The hotel and livery barn at Sylvia,
Reno county, is burned and the entire
town came near being swept away.
The government has completed a
telephone system of its own at Fort
Riley. 1t connects with all the offices
at the fort.
The express agent at Cimarron re-
ports his c. o. d. receipts on TASKS and
cases double the receipts from any
other single source.
Rich Brookens (colored) of Topeka,
served 80 years in the regular army
and is asking for place as janitor in
the war department
Chas. f. Rooster, of Marysville, is
dead of paralysis of the throat. He
had lived there for nearly 40 years and
was president of bank.
Steam plows are turning the soil OF
Sumner county for the next wheat
crop. There are quite number of
steam plows now at the job.
A letter mailed in France and ad-
dressed to Hays City, America, reached
the old town on Big Creek alongside
the agricultural experiment station and
the sub-normal school.
Counties in Central Kansas are sell
ing boom lots at private sale on which
taxes are three and a fourth years in
arrears, under the law which was made
to apply to dead lots.
John Geehan, an M. X. & L. switch
man at Parsons, was killed while
working in the yards, by being thrown
from the top of stock car while set
ting brake, and two cars ran over him.
Every town which Buclsskin Bills
wild west show visits boils over with
wrath over it as fake. Many per-
sonal thieving cases are reported in
the way of over charges and short
changing
Working in one section gang for the
Missouri Pacific at Leroy is Mexican,
an Italian, Frenchman, A Boer, a
Spaniard, a Greek, Dutchman, an
Irishman, Welshman, an Ethiopian
and Missourian.
An Overlook girl acquired the habit
of pulling out single hairs from her
head and chewing and swallowing
them. 1t required surgical operation
to take bunch of hair five inches
long from her insides.
Geo. w. Finch, the eldest of the
newspaper family of that name, who
has practiced law for a number of
years at Harper, was killed in run
away on August Is. His dead body
was found in the road.
w. II. Mackey, the new United
States marshal for Kansas, will con-
tinue to live at Junction City. 1t will
be remembered that he is a recent APP
pointee as postmaster of his home town
which position he now vacates.
Miss Elizabeth e. Bentley has re-
signed the position of assistant in En-
glish in Baker university to accept the
chair of English in Simpson college,
Indianola, Iowa. The trustees of
Baker have no one in view to fill the
position as yet.
General Frederick Funston says he
will visit the Veterans Association at
Ottawa at their reunion on October 1-3,
provided he is not asked to talk.
Superintendent Nelson rules that
under the law authorizing consolida-
ton of school districts, parents can
draw pay for taking their children to
school.
President Nichols, of the Kansas
Agricultural college, has declined the
presidency Of the Rhode Island college
of agriculture and will remain at Man
haitian.
Ex-Congressman s. S. Kirkpatrick,
of Fredonia, has taken charter for
$500 brick plant at his home
town.
County surveyors of Kansas will hold
their annual meeting in Wichita Sep
TENDER "a and 25, dates which will en-
able them to take advantage of the
rates made for the carnival
The Topeka insane asylum turned
into the state treasury 81, 167. 80 in fees
collected during the past quarter for
the care of patients who have property
of their own or rich relatives.
Rocky Ford canteloupes are now