The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1903-07-24
KANSAS COMMENT.


dotte county horses are valued by the
assessors at $13 &C; in Nemaha, $40; in
Stevens $5.47, and in Anderson at
So64s.
PENSIONERS DYING.-There have
been 1900 pensioners stricken from the
rolls of the Topeka u. $. pension
agency by death during the past five
months
ASSESSORS CATTLE VALUATION. In
Leavenworth county cattle are valued
for taxation at $1S.13; in Ncmaha at
$3.50, and in Montgomery at 1894.
Only eight counties in the state value
their cattle at over $40 each.
A BEAUTIFUL TREE. There is n
balm of Gilead trea in Anthony which
is 90 years old. 1t measures ten feet
and seven inches around the trunk one
foot from the ground and measures
through The foliage from north to
south sixty-nine feet, and from east to
west sixty two feet. This is oeauti-
fully shaped tree, in perfect health,
with wood as hard as hickory and
leaves as soft as velvet.
LOOKING AFTER MORTGAGES The
county clerk of Shawnee county is 60
ing to compare the returns of the as
SCISSORS with the mortgage list taken
from the records and in this manner
find ont who the tax dodgers are. The
law empowers the county commission
ers or county clerk to assess penalty
of so per cent of the value against all
property which is not reported to the
assessors
FACTS AND FIGURES DISAGREE. =
With mortgages running into the mil
lions in nearly every county in the
state and with bank deposits aggrc-
eating more than 90 million dollars,
the reports received by the state audi
tor show that but $7,664, GAG in mort
cages and Sc, $40 in money have
been returned for taxation in Kansas
this wear. The assessed valuation is
much lower, being but 1888, l41 on
mortgages and SO, 23o, 651 on money.
MAIL CARRIER "a YEARS. samuel
Robinson has served "a years as mail
carrier in Topeka. His certificate of
appointment is dated September %,
1879. For "a years, winter and sum
MGR, he has walked his ten or twelve
miles day, with never layoff from
sickness of more than one day at
time. Even the dogs along his route
love him; women and children watch
for his coming and meet him with
smiles.
DISTRICT JUDGES. Under ruling
of the supreme court, in a contest case
from Wyandotte county, the district
Judges whose terms expire this year
will not hold over by virtue of the BIZ
ennial election amendment to the con-
stitution and Governor Bailey will fill
the vacancies created in the offices by
reason of their retirement. The court
holds that district Judges are neither
county or township officers and there
fore do not come under the law.
GATHERING FLOOD HIsToRY.-G. w.
Martin, secretary of the State Histori-
cal society, has sent to every town in
the flood stricken region for all OBJ
tainable photographs of the Eigh
waters and of the damage done. They
will be filed in the historical society's
vaults. He is also compiling news
paper history of the food from the
local Kansas papers, securing two
copies of all flood editions and pasting
the stories in large scrapboolSs. The
photographs are being furnished by
city councils, boards of county COM
missioners and newspapers.
CASH AND WHEAT. has $780,
900, 900 on deposit in her banks and
for every dollar on deposit she has
bushcl of wheat additional ready for
market.
AS TO Hoes.-In Wyandotte county
hogs are returned by the assessors at
81. IS cents each; in Gray at Sc cents,
in Smith at $50 and in Shawnee at
s4.96.
ScuooI. POPULATION. of Cof-
feyville is 1,0sl white and 235 colored.
A separate school fight is now going on
there.
HoRT1CULTURAL EXHIBIT Tho Kan
sas commission to the st. Louis EXPOSE
ton has named w. f. Schell, OF Wich-
tia, as superintendent of the Kansas
horticultural exhibit The commission
has decided to employ C. II. Kassel-
baum, of Atchison, to make corn dis
play for the state.
A NEw PEsTERATIoS.- OF
Salina bride and groom fastened fifty
mound bell on the axle of the hack that
took them to the train. A rope over
the top of the cab in the drivers hands
did the rest.
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