The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1903-09-04
KANSAS COMMENT.


year.
KANSAS POPULATION. The last sum
ming up of the assessors count gives
Kansas population of 1,494,s47
THAT PACKING HoUsE.-The founda-
ton for the packing plant at Arkansas
City is completed and brick work about
to be pushed.
A COMPARISON. Missouri and Ne
braslSa both pay teachers wages which
average more than the wages Kansas
teachers receive.
A TALKING Observation-Disclosures
state fair is to have a convention of
auctioneers which will have compcti-
tive talking match for prizes.
SIMMONS RESIGNS. John Simmons
has resigned as superintendent of the
Hutchinson reformatory because his
own affairs require his time and atten-
ton.
A NEW FEATURE. AT the Wichita
5000 members of the Anti orsethief
association will appear in the parade
on horseback.
ARTILLERY PRAoMTE. The annual
artillery practice at Fort Riley has
been going on for some weeks with
some new features, one being the dis
appearing target.
WANTED FOR FORGERY r. L.
Cromwell, charged with passing a
forged check upon an Emporia hotel
man, is under arrest in Michigan and
will be brought back.
TELEPHONE CoNMECTIONs. Arkansas
City will soon have telephone connec-
tions with Silverdale, the stone quar-
rics, Davidson, Townsend and Maple
City. 1t also will have 16 rural phones
on the same line.
DAMAGE BY CLoUDBuRsT. The dam
age to farms in Ncmaha and Marshall
counties by cloud burst is greater than
at first estimated and now is placed at
$500, Great quantities of hay,
wheat and oats in stack, besides wheat
and corn in biLs were swept away,
while many farmers lost all their cat
tie and hogs.
GATHERING HISTORY. The Old Set
tiers association of Cowley county
held its annual meeting at Dexter.
The program was made up of histories
of different townships of the county,
and some of the old settlers told their
early experiences This material will
be preserved and published in his
tory CT the county.
PROGRESS OF "ORIENT THE Kan
sas City, Mexico e Orient Railroad |
company has graders at work in Chase |
county surfacing an old road bed |
toward hatfield Green. The right-of- |
way men are almost ready for the
graders in Lyon county. The com
pany finds some men who refuse 500
an acre for land and some will not take
$40 apiece for apple trees
WAS WELL TREATED Owen Patch
en-, of Ottawa, was badly injured in
the Stillwell wreck. When the claim
agent of the Santa Fe went to him to
settle and asked him how much he
claimed damages, Patchen replied that
ii .ir~l,t nd |
more. and that he would not sue even
if the company allowed him nothing.
the company settled with
him for 81, GOO cash, besides paying all
his hospital expenses and giving him
n round trip ticket to Indiana. Hegot
more than he could have secured in an
action at law.
STORES UNDER WATER. -Vcrmillion
creek, south of Frankfort, was &c feet
above low water mark and nearly all
The business houses at Frankfort had
water covering their floors from three
10 eighteen inches deep. At Barrett,
also on the Vermillion, water ran over
the counters in the stores.
GIVE THEIR ORDERS. The Wichita
Order of Journeymen Stone Cutters
nave ordered contractors to stop ship
ping cut stone into the city and they
declare they will not work such stone
f it comes from any other place.
RAINED FIVE DAYs.-Barton county,
Turing the past two weeks, had five
lays of heavy rains, soaking the ground
ind preventing blowing and delaying
.breshing. Corn is in excellent con-
iition, never known to be better at
his time of the year. Creeks and
mall streams are swollen to their ca
,acity and it is feared many wheat
,tacks may be ruined.
KANSAS BoNDs.--T state has out
bonds amounting TO S632, coo,
md they arc all held by the school
und.