The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1902-02-28
A $4,000 flour mill is to be built in

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The State Council of Red Men held
their state council in Wichita, opening
Feb. IS.
The Lee farm in SedgwiclS county,
$40 acres, is sold to s. l.. Conine for
Sl4, 500. rs kA
A sash and door company at Wichita,
with capital of 1000, has taken a
charter.
Winfield has been offered $4,000 for
a public library, on his usual terms, by
Mr. Carnegie
The postoffioe appropriation bill pro-
vides for the continuance of the fast
mail service from Kansas City to New
ton.
The city of Topeka has confessed
Judgment for 5000 for damage done to
a joint during the first raid by Mrs
Nation.
| There is retired farmer living in
Hiawatba who recently made 1900 in
one week by buying and selling u
| farm.
The Rock Island is to increase its
yard tracks in Wichita considerably
and will put in a new steel turn table
SO feet long.
The Kansas Society of the Sons of
the American Revolution holds ban
quets in Topeka annually on Washing
toms birthday.
The validity of the law requiring
doctors to secure state licenses before
practicing, is to go before the supreme
court in a case from Barton county.
Alfred Shinn, of Fort Scott, be-
queathed to Washburn college, two
twelfths of his estate, which is con-
sidered worth from S12, 900 to SIS, 900.
A row occurred over the employment
of non-union plasterers on the compile
ton of the basement of the State house,
in Topeka. The contractor surrendered
to the union.
The report Of Grand Secretary Will
son shows the total Masonic member
ship in Kansas to be 22,3s6, with
limitations during the past two years
exceeding 1850.
The semi-annual apportionments
among the school districts, of interest
on the invested school funds will be 80
cents for each person of school age in
the state. The amount to be distrib-
uted is $196, 1857.
The salary of the city attorney of
Winfield is SIG. &C a month. The city
council gave him special fee for
certain work and one of the council
men has sued to recover for the city
the money so paid.
The Union Pacific Land company
has sold to certain Iowa capitalists
So, 900 acres of land in Thomas and
Logan counties The purchasers have
colonization agents at work to get
occupants for their purchase.
Judge j. G. Clogston of Eureka is
dead after long sickness. He has for
many years been prominent in public
affairs of Kansas. He came to Green
wood county at the close of the civil
war in which he served. He was 81
years old.
A. L. SeoclSwell, near Downs, bought
232 hogs from his neighbor who sold
them because of their lack of corn. He
fed the hogs on wheat and alfalfa.
When he marketed the hogs he COM
puted the worth of the feed he had
used and says that the hogs netted
him 81 300. He fed them four months.
Frank Ray, who was held in Jail at
Kingsley, charged with holding up the
operator at the Offerle station, broke
Jail and disappeared.
Kansas, with the single exception of
Texas, has the largest permanent
school reserve fund in the Union. This
fund is now more than $1,000, 900. This
money is never spent, but is invested
and re-invested in bonds of school
districts, townships, cities and counties
of Kansas. The Kansas school fund
also holds the entire bonded indebted
ness of the state.
W. E. Wilson, of Smith county, is
feeding rs cattle, taking care of 16
young calves and doing all his work
alone.
A new fast mail train is proposed to
be put on the Union Pacific, through
Kansas, from Kansas City to Denver
The train is scheduled to make the
trip in 10 hours and 20 minutes.
An opinion has been given by the
attorney general that township officers
may use money collected for general
purposes for work on highways in
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