The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1902-03-14
KANsAs ITEMS or INTEREST.

Contract has been let for erecting q
Catholic convent at Concordia, to cost
s47, 900.
Professor Snow is back in Snow hall
of Kansas university, in his old chair
and is happy.
The mother of Hill =. Wilson, OF
Hays City, celebrated her 99nd birth
day on February 81.
The Leading Manila paper says that
Aguinaldo is to be sent to the federal
prison at Fort Leavenworth.
1t is n frequent thing for Kansas
newspapers this year to note the addi-
ton of books to public libraries.
The Indian appropriation bill carries
$1,000 for two bridges in jackson coun-
ty, on the Pottawatomie reservation.
Robert Farrell, laborer of North
Topeka, was knocked down near his
home and robbed of $32 and watch
T. b. Gerow, director of the state
free employment agency, is receiving
large numbers of applications for work
from men living outside the state.
Col Metcalf will continue to reside
in Lawrence as the trains are so sched-
uled as to permit him to spend the day
at the pension office in Topeka and be
at home nights.
A contract has been signed by bust
ness men of independence and capital
lists of Chicago and New York to locate
plant to manufacture sugar, paper
pulp and cellulose from sorghum cane.
The Osawatome insane asylum
turned into the state treasury $240.40
fees collected during February for the
care of patients whose relatives were
financially able to pay their expen-
seS.
The financial report for the Topeka
school board for the month of February
shows cash in the three funds, the gen
eral fund, the interest and sinking
fund and the building fund, amounting
to S55, 696.41.
John Mckinley, of Marshall county,
% years old, deaf, blind and feeble
minded. has been sent to the poor
house. He was first cousin of Will
liam Mckinley, late president of the
United States.
The Kansas insurance department
took in 500, 900 in fees from outside in
surance companies in February, break
ing all records. February, under the
departments system, is the month
when annual fees are paid.
An agent at the head of Russian
colony is looking over the Westcott
ranch near Solomon with view of
purchase The price asked is S125, 900.
The colony comprises about 80 families
The ranch contains 1000 acres.
Postmaster John Guthrie, of Topeka,
has announced that the pay of the
rural mail carriers had been increased
from $500 to 5000 a year. This will
affect nearly 500 carriers in the state
and was purely voluntary increase by
the department.
Leoti has been the scene of many
robberies and holdups. A vigilance
committee was organized who finally
earned that the gang of outlaws was
made up of a dozen boys, children of
prominent citizens. The boys were ar
rested but compromise was reached
by which the warrants will be held
over the boys for a period long enough
to give their parents time to effect
reform.
There were 144 students at work in
the machine shops of the Kansas uni
versity School of Engineering during
the FIRST term of the present session.
People still guess who owns the Fort
Scott, lola & Western road, the track
of which is being laid through Iola
although Katy engine delivers the
materials.
The Kansas University school of
pharmacy has graduated 225 students,
16 of them women. SiXty-one of the
male graduates are now proprietors of
drug stores.
The township assessors of Cloud
county agree that the wheat crop of
that county is in better condition than
on March !, 1901 and that the acreage
is largely increased.
C. NJ. Carver, of Dickinson county,
fattened 6s Poland-China hogs with
ground wheat. They averaged 9s2
pounds at Arkansas City and topped
the market at Sc. 4oH hundred pounds.
He says she hogs gained IA pounds for
every bushel of wheat, while his best
record with corn was ~ pounds for
every bushel fed.
Work has begun at Independence on
n $40, 900 hotel to be IS by 125 feet and