The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-11-19
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

machinery.
A man named Vaughn has been ar
rested and taken to Pawnee for horse
stealing.
The Santa Fe will equip all Pas
senger coaches with electric lights
within month.
The melon king of Sherman county
raisep 10, 900 melons this year. Sher-
man county was once rated as part OF
a desert.
Nine out of twelve persons who par
took of supper given at the McReady
ranch. near Manchester recently, were
taken violently sick before midnight.
The symptoms were cramp and pain IN
the stomach with excessive vomiting.
A panic ensued for some time but
finally the remedies applied proved eff
fectual and today all were able to be
about except the elder Mrs. McReady.
The cause of the trouble is not known
but it is supposed to have been due to
canned goods of some kind.
A circular in reference to the sigma
system of the road has been issued by
General superintendent Nudge, OF the
Santa Fe. 1t states that after Novem-
Der list the maintenance and construc-
ton of all interlocking mechanical and
electric signal and highway crossing
bells will be under the control of the
signal engineer, j. B. Hobson, at To-
peka, and sets forth code of rules to
be followed by employees. The rules
look to the maintenance Of the system,
and provide for the immediate notitica-
tions of trainmasters, division inspect
ors and signal engineer in case of fail
ure or damage to any portion of the
system.
While out hunting last week Mr..
Isaac A. Wright, real estate dealer of
Kansas City, shot and killed rabbit
with well developed horns. Bunny
was an ordinary cotton tall and
the horns, which are three-quar-
tiers of an inch long and rough and
hard like those of goat, are less than
an inch apart just in front of the rab-
bits left ear. The first horn is close
to the left ear and the other is just
above the left eye. Both are slightly
to the left of the center of the head
The horns are regular in shape and
well developed. Their size and sub
stance dismiss the thought that they
could be mere blemishes on the skin.
When the remarkable specimen has
been mounted Mr.. Wright will pre-
serve it as curiosity.
Bert Combs accompanied by two
daughters of S. NJ. Maxwell, of Neesho
county, went pecan hunting recently
near Mr.. Maxwell's home. 1t was
rather tall tree and Bert climbed up
near the top to knock off the pecans
while the Misses Maxwell picked them
up. When he started up the tree he in
his usual good humor asked the girls
to pray for him, little thinking that
the end of his life was no near. The
wind was somewhat strong and the
top part of the tree swayed quite bit
and this is perhaps the cause of the
fall. Bert was about forty feet from
the ground, intent on securing boun-
tiful supply of pecans and not thinking
of danger when he lost his hold and
his balance and fell to the ground be-
low. The Misses Maxwell saw him
fall and cried for help, but there being
no one near, they put him into the
wagon and took him to the Maxwell
home. Death was instantaneous.
A vein of extra fine coal six feet
thick and twenty-seven feet below the
surface has been found near FIT. Scott
by a man boring for stock water
During the month of October there
were thirteen deaths among the mem
bers of the soldiers home at Leaven-
worth OF these thirteen deaths two
were killed by the street cars, three
died in Leavenworth, one at Clay Cen
ter, one in Kansas City, and one com
mited suicide by cutting his throat.
Five deaths only have occurred at the
hospital.
Burglars unobserved and unmolest-
ed, blew open the safe in the state
bank at Vermillion, Kan, after mid
night one night last week, taking
SO, 200 in gold and paper money. The
silver was left probably only because
it was too heavy to carry.
The mayor of Coffeyvllle, has issued
a proclamation for an election to vote
on the proposition to issue BONDS in
the sum of $4,000 to be issued in the
erection of an electric light and power
plant to be owned by the city. The
election will be held December 5.
Attorneys for the plaintiff in the
foreclosure suit of Kendall Crawford
have applied for a receiver for the To