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AML TURNER, Editor and Prop'r. * * CHANUTE, . KANSAS — KANSAS ITEMA OF INTEREST. The State Temperance Union meets t o Topeka January 27-20. Mr. Carrie nation is to be tried in probate court for insanity. Rev. Langston, of the Independence Christian church, has smallpox. The State Editorial Association movets in Topeka January 1st, Mr. Cave's bill for the extermination of prairie dogs has passed the house A Caldwell contractor has contracts for the foundations of eight residences, ‘The State Society of Labor and In dustry meets in ‘Topeka February 40. The colored man of Seattle Nave offered a $30 reward for the burners of Alexander at Leavenworth. Mrs. Elizabeth Greer died in Topeka the other day in the house in which she hind lived forty-one years. Congressman Longas been invited to address the American Protective toague in New York in February, John ©. Sermann, a Nickerson boy, in now high clerk in the corporation counsel’s office of Cincinnati, Ohio. Herb Rogers, of Douglas county, lost his barn with considerable corn and oats, by the upsetting of a lantern. John M. Fanning was convicted last week at Ottawa, of assault and attempt to kill Sheriff Costigan last summer. ‘Vhe banks of Marshall county hold deposits to the amount of 816 for every man, woman and child In the county, Representative Sudgeley voted for the reapportionment bill which would have given Kansas only seven members. Dr. . Hl, Creditor, of Wichita, is vice president of a company formed in Ohi ‘cage to exploit oil fields in California. The city of Howard claims to be en tirely free from the colored element, not having a single inhabitant of that kind of skin. One of the search lights procured for American harbors during the Span ish war has been brought to Fort Leavenworth. Dr. Thompson, one of the Nebraska candidates for United States senator, was once the conductor on the Santa Fe branch between Topeka and Atchi son. Gasoline engines are of as small cost as windmills and are always ready, so there are many irrigators in the west ern counties who are using the former for pumping water. Angora goats are tempting and prom ise profit, but it may be as well to re member that there was a similar craze about 40 years ago. What became of it? Does anyone know? ‘The Hackmen’s Union of Leaven worth, has decided, in case Mrs. Na tion goes there, to inveigle her into a hack and drive her a long way into the country and dump her out. Many of the schools of Kansas pre pared to celebrate John Marshall day. February 445 the centennial as Chief Justice Marshall's first membership of the United States supreme court. Lewis Bubb, Jr. of the Efingham high school in Atchison county, was hazed by having a part of his head shaved and painted red. Hubb's par ments threaten to arrest the hazers. SM. Scott, a former candidate for congress from the Fourth Kansas dis trict, says he owns 325 acres next to the great oil well at Beaumont, Texas, for which he could get $1,000 an acre. There are about 8,000 acres of gov ernment land in Kansas as yet unoccu pied. Most of this land exists in scat tered tracts of about 40 acres each. Amos Riggs, an year-old boy, of Pittsburg, ran under a loaded hay wagon lo catch side. When he let loose he fell under the wheels and was instantly killed. Major H. Wood Martin died in Mount Vernon, Ill. last week. He was a member of the frst Kansas legislature. In 1861 he was appointed agent of the Sac and Fox Indiana .The oldest volunteer soldier, Thomas BE. Sauls, aged 91, died recently in Webb City, Mo. He served in the Sem inole war, in the Mexican war and In 1880 enlisted In the Sixth Kamax and served three years in the civil war. JM. Frost, who was pardoned out of the pen by Governor Morris, has been sentenced to another term of five years, by Judge Simone of Fort Scott His wife and daughter were also sen tenced, the first for five years and the latter for one year. What crime they formattied is not stated, Charles Gormally, Inte chilef musi can in the Twentieth Kansas, is bringing a Filipina band from Manila, and will tour the country. The outgoing board of county com mersioners of Wantauasee county named the superintendent of schools elect to fill the causiny until his term began.When the new board secured control they reconsidered the action and named the retiring superintendent for the interim. Both claim mail at e the pustosies and both are refused. (C4eharse there are other complications Treasurer Grimes has completed his million dollar bond. A gang of lightning for sharps to | Working in Saline county. Mrs. Nation has commenced her lec ture tour and will continue it indefi nitely. The Missouri and Kansas association of lumber dealers meet in Kansan City this week. Solomon has experienced several fires recently, there are suspicions of in cenduries. The records show that Leavenworth has 122 joints, which pay the city $4.0 month each. The bill to divide the sitting of the Crawford county district court has passed the senate. John Emmeruth, late of Atchison, has been elected a member of the first legislature of Harwaii. The house judiciary committee killed the bill to enable nine jurors to return a verdWt In civil cases, ‘The whole camp of the Salvation army in Parsons is quarantined on ac count of the smallpox. Mr. Lease’s petition for a divorce was filed on January 21 in the district court of Sedgwick county, ‘The plate glass insurance companies hince cancelled all policies covering risks in saloons in Wichita. W. C. Lee, of Toledo, attended the Shorthorn sale at Strong City and pur chased a sall herd of them. ‘There are still 410 applications for rural delivery routes in the hands of the special agents for Kansas, lL. D. Hampton, a nephew of Gover nor Lewelling has married Mrs. Dora Harns, at Kansas City, Kansas, Dr. Thomas Archer, of Emporia, to dead. He preempted a farm a mile and a half from Emporia in 185 Colonialis in Washington to take examination for a commission in the army. We did good service in the Twentieth Kansas, ‘Yhe Emporia Elks propose to build a home of their own, to contain lodge font, parlors, elu room, billiard room kitchen and dining room. Ploughing has been done on the “farms, during January, quite generally, in the southern counties, three tiers from the south one of the state. ‘The first telegraph wire was strung in Kansas in 1859. I t was up the Mis souri river to Leavenworth. it was several years later before there was a wire up the Kansas river. One Emporia man sued another for $1,245 for balance due on carting ‘some rock, ‘the other man sued back for $10 damage to the rock through breaking it, and won. Senator Smith says that hardly a bill comes to the judiciary committee that does not require to be re-written 50 that it will stand the test of the courts. Many even forget to put in enacting clauses and titles. Injunction suits have been started by the Dickinson County Temperance Union, against four saloons at Abilene, one at Herington, one at Solomon and two at Hope. Officers of the Union say they will push the injunctions, ‘The Rev. §. 8, Martin, pastor of the Methodist church at Fort Scott, has been granted a pension of $4 a month with back pay to the amount of £ 800. Mr. Martin enlisted in Speaker Hen derson’s Jews regiment when he was but 14 years old. A concurrent resolution Introduced in the Kansas legislature provides for a joint committee from both houses to confer with the Missouri legislature regarding alleged unjust discrimina tion against grain shippers by elevator men and speculators. Senator J. K. Cubbison has 2 brother attending the West Point military academy. Mr. Cubbison voted a very ‘edded “aye on Senator Simons’ reso lution denouncing hazing at the acad emy. There is a bill before the legislature to authorize the use of voting machines in such counties, townships and cities as may adopt Mem. ‘Twenty-nine years ago on January 29, 1872, the Kansas legislature accept ed from Topeka the 30 acres of land now occupied by the capitol. Senator Tapp's bill requiring owners of stores and shops to provide seats for their female clerks was killed in com mittee. Postmaster John Guthrie, of Topeka, has been appointed as one of the mem bers of the executive committer of the National Postmasters’ association. Arrangements are making for the establishment of a branch of the Union Live Stock commission company, of Kansas City, at the Wichita stock yards, principally for auction ales of of stock ers and feeders Superintendent Nelevn je showing the legislature that a compulsory at tendance in is needed by reciting fix ures on school attendance. Of the 04, £ 54 children of school age In the state, but 380,082 are qnralled in the retools, ‘There appears to have ees » eve qually arranged change of telegraph operators between the Gants Fe and some other roads oince the strike. The Sante Pe officials are certainly pleased who they hear of one of their old employes getting a good place alan wher.
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Chanute, Kansas, US
Fri, Feb 01, 1901
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