The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1903-07-17

| ports 70, 700 town lots for taxation and
values them at $40, BOOTHS; Shawnee,
| 40, S3S lots, valued at $s,96S, 1854; Sedg'
wick, 1901 lots, valued at $4,337, 23s;
Leavenworth, "a, 1T lots, valued at
$4, cas-, 80; Bourbon, 10, 800 lots, valued
at 81, 444, 495; Atchison, 7,1o6 lots, val
ued at 81, 614, 507.
SHORTAGE OF Cause.-The first com
plant comes from North Topeka where
the Mid-Continent millscannot get cars
enough to fill orders. Some of these
orders have remained untitled for a
month as a result of flood conditions
and those who made them are frantic
ally sending kilograms and letters OF
inquiry.
COUNTIES MUST PAY.-Thcre is nc
law providing for payment by the state
of sheriffs for taking insane persons to
the asylum, or lprisoners to the State
reformatory. The $4,000 appropriated
for the payment of sheriffs for taking
prisoners to the pcnitentiary cannot be
used for the other services above men.
toned.
THE SIX LARGEST. The total valua.
ton returned by assessors of the six
leading counties, of both real and per-
sonal property, is here stated. In
Shawnee it is S17,7OO, 597; Wyandotte,
$17,31S, 400; Scdgwick, $11,6O1, 4s3;
Leavenworth, SO, 60, s02; Bourbon, SIS,
732,64S; Atchison, SIS, O6s, $50.
DEATH FROM BAY RUM.-At Delphos
Dick Benson, barber, drank bay rum
and died in great agony. Bay rum is
supposed to be made of pure alcohol,
but some druggists, it is said, use the
poisonous wood alcohol because it is
cheaper. 1t is said that Benson sup
posed he was getting pure bay rum.
AN OLD SETTLER STRICKEN. Judge
]. s. Magill, one of the first three white
settlers of Marshall county, was stricls-
en- with paralysis at his home last
week. He is past SO years of age and
has no reserve vitality to draw upon.
He settled in Marysville in 1856.
AL GREENE DID IT.-A. r. Greene, of
Kansas, special agent of the interior
department, is honored on the Pacific
coast by having his picture on the front
page of all the papers. He won the
distinction by ferretting out swindles
in taking public lands.
POsToFFICE RECEIPTS. The records
for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1908,
show that the total amount received at
the Topeka postoffice for postage, mon
ey orders, etc, was $l71, $50. sc; show
ing an increase of about 1415 per cent
over the preceding year.
CONNECTING TRACKs.-Suits are COM
menced AZ Harper before the board of
railroad commissioners to compel the
Orient and Santa Fe railroads tc build
connecting tracks, so tha5 freight may
be transferred there without changing
cars.
ACREAGE ASSESSMENTS. The six
counties showing the highest valua-
tons per acre, for taxation of farm
lands arc: Wyandotte, seq IS per acre;
Allen, $40; Leavenworth so. 3d. Brown,
S. So; Shawnee, 1874; Ncmaha, $7.05.
WHERE is CLOSE. Fred Close built n
north and south road through Kansas
on paper some years since. His old
time friends are wondering that his
name has not been connec ted with the
Nebraska and Gulf road.
COAL FOR FEDERAL BUDDING. Penn
sylvania hard coal, $50 tons of it, is al
ready stored in the basement of the
federal building in Topeka Uncle
Sam seems to be providing against
strikes.
School PoPULATIoN.-That of Cof-
feyville is l ,Gsl white and 235 colored.
A separate school fight is now going on
there.
WALL AT REFoRMAToRY.- Work on
the construction of the wall around the
Hutchinson reformatory will begin at
once. The legislature appropriated
SIG. 500 for the wall. The wall will be
2,7oO feet long and twenty-five feet
high. 1t will cost $40 foot The APP
preparation is not large enough to COM
plete the wall. The managers will
build the wall sixteen feet high with
the money now available, and ask the
legislature next year for an additional
appropriation of $4,000 to complete
it
GETS TWICE AS MUCH. Not a month
passes that instructors in state institu-
tions do not leave Kansas tempted by
better offers elsewhere. The latest is
Mrs. Cora McCollum Smith, a member
of the faculty of tine Kansas university
school of fine arts. She goes to the