The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1903-12-25
KANSAS COMMENT.

BUILDING RECORD. AT Goodland ~
homes and eight business houses ar'
being constructed.
A FIPrY- BARREL MILL
Springs is to have one to be ready ''
grind the crop of 1904.
CuuHcII AT DERBY The Eyangclica
church of Derby is planning to build
$4,000 church Immediately.
aCor.. MAus ARRIVES. Lieu Col
Maus has assumed charge of the ncdi
cal department at Fort Riley.
NEARLY FINISHED is thought
that the government building at EN-
poria will be completed by May, 1904
TRAVELLING MEN TO Do Ir.-Travei'
ing men who make Salina their home
have decided to raise money to erect
an auditorium in Salina.
A PossUM ROAST This year the an
nual banquet given by the Hiawatha
commercial club to the city fire depart
ment is to be u possum roast.
GALENA MIEEEs.--Thc entire Galena
mining district resumes work on De-
celnber IS, the outlook being for Il
strong market for lead and ztlc.
A K1NGMAy CITIZEN Captain Mel
son Durant, civil war veteran and an
ex-trcasurer of Kingman county, died
suddenly at his home in Kingman
LoBDELL SELLS RANCn.-Judge c. e.
Lobdell, OF Lane county, has sold his
ranch southeast OF Scott City, for 81, 800,
but retains several hundred head Of
cattle.
HAVE TIE Iron Most OF tho pupils
at the Lansing school near the peniten-
tiary have the itch. The school is
maintained by direct appropriation
from the state, the pupils being mostly
the children of prison officials.
SUDDEN DBAru-W. II. Burns died
without a moments warnin. while Sit
ting in chair at home in Wichita.
Mr.. Burns had been n conductor ON
the Santa Re for many years and for
some time had been running the train
west from Wichita to Pratt
STATE POULTRY Snow. -The appro-
priation OF 81, 900 by the last legisla-
ture for this years poultry show will
be probably the greatest factcr III
MAILING it complete success. This
money is to be devoted toward paying
the expenses of the show and the offer
ing of premiums. The show is to be
held at Topeka commencing Jan. H.
PRICE RAID SCRIP. James
i. Allen says lie has received about
5000, 600 in Price raid scrip to pass
Judgment on as scrip commissioner
He expects at least another 500, 900 to
show mp before he makes his final re-
port to the next legislature. He will
begin January an investigation OF
the scrip and determine if the owners
really arc entitled to pay on it.
KANSAS HAS MoNEY.-With fully
one-half the wheat crop still unsold,
with the big corn crop still in the
shock and with the thousands of feed
lots and pastures full of cattle Kansas
has 100000 more cash in bank than
she had at this time last year. The
total deposits in the national. state
and private banks aggregate $780,
75777, or SOS per capita, according to a
statement issued by State Bank Com
missioner Albaugh. The deposits are
about 81, ooo, 900 less than they wero in
September. This is due 70 the allow
movement of the crops and Tho invest
ment OF fund. in lands, cattle and ether
things.
AcPnnrseH GETS IT-That city hss
captured = Swedish evangelical Ais-
sion school and J. D. Nillikin Laya ID
will soon develop into one Of ths lAr.-
est education al institutions in The slate.
1t has been chartered and ,75, 600 . il.
bank 10 apply on cost OF building.
HuTcuIEsoN PosToFFICH-Prolinis
airy work has begun on the ate fer tho
postoticc building, which 10 to be % by
so feet in size, one story and basement,
SO constructed that another story may
be added 1t is to be of stone AID tho
plans show handsome building.
MISSOURI PACIFIC PLANS The Mis-
souri, Pacific is planning an extension
from Concordia TO Salina aud FROM Nc
Pherson to Marquette. The FL Dorado.
Elk City extension would give that
company direct hne from tine south
eastern coal fields to Central and north
western Kansas.
FORTUNE For Observation-Disclosures d.
Thompson, OF Lawrence IS one OF seven
heirs of the late Frank Thompson, OF
Ballston Spa, n. Y, former ly of New
York City, who was rated as 9 million
aire.
DEAL Is on LANDs.-M. V. Coons, a
banker of Cleveland, o., who has been
in the Southern Kansas oil fields for
ten days inspecting the oil outlook, has
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