The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-04-02

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Governor Leedy has asked the police
commission of Leavenworth to make
q monthly itemized statement to him.
six brick buildings for Neodeshas
refinery are now in course of construc-
ton. The Rockefellers are behind the
refinery.
The liquor question has moved out
of the big towns in Kansas and is so
! journing in the little places. Concor-
dia is among the towns which is this
spring having wet and dry campaign.
A large quantity of broom corn has
been marketed in Stafford county this
week, ranging from SIS to $40 per ton,
about an average of $40 less ton than
the same would have brought five or
six months ago.
w. w. Culver Of Great Bend has
again been appointed grain inspector
for the state. The first time he was
appointed and confirmed by the senate
the bill establishing his position had
not become law, and it had to be
done over again.
The buds on some of the peach trees
are almost ready to burst open into
bloom. If the weather remains warm
the trees will soon be covered with
bloom, but if very many hard freezes
should come now, the peach crop
would be very much damaged.
The creamery at Salina is progress
ing fnely-nearly all of the machinery
is already on the ground and in the
building. A huge churn capable OF
making 1000 of butter per day, 25-
horse power boiler, large steel tanks,
an immense separator and various 9th
err machines used in first class cream
cries.
The school board at Wellington has
renewed its contract with the publish
ing company which is at present fur
nishing the city schools with books,
for term of five years with the priv
ilege of annullmcnt with ten days no.
tice. This was done in order to allow
the schools to adopt the new text book
system gradually.
Miss AIDA Stewart, teacher in dis
trict No. IS, Shawnee county, was re-
moving fire from the stove to the coal
scuttle, when her apron came in con-
tact with the live Goals and in an in
slant her clothing was a mass of
flames. Scholars came to her help,
and the flames were finally eXtinguish-
ed, but not until the young lady was
horribly burned on the back and arms.
John Finner, who carries the mail
from Portland to Caldwell, upon his
return from one of his trips March 25,
was removing some mail sacks from
his 'buckboard. In doing so his re-
volver, a big 44-calibre affair became
tangled up with the sacks and came
out with them, when it struck the
ground it exploded, the ball entering
Finner's left foot just above the ankle.
1t made horrible wound, completely
SCATTERING the ankle bone, and necessi-
tated the removal of that part of his
leg.
An Atchison man has an interesting
war relic. 1t is the property of Mrs.
Phillips of Doniphan, who brought up
from Tennessee about 81, 500 in confed-
crate currency. Recently in eXamin-
ing the paper she discovered So bill
which, at first sight, she supposed was
confederate currency. but is Kansas
bank bill issued by the Drover's bank at
Leavenworth, July l, 1856, and was
probably carried to Tennessee by some
Kansas soldier The Leavenworth bill
has an engraved herd of buffalo on its
face and is signed by R. Constant,
president and j. c. Sargent, cashier.
Printed : one end are the words: "W.
L. Ormsby, New York" The number
is O,O6s.
A young woman in an Uncle Toms
Cabin company in Wellington went tc
local dentist. She cried copiously
while he filled tooth and he asked
her if he hurt her. She said "No, l
am crying because Jim Corbett was de-
feated.
The game markets are said to be al
most glutted with wild ducks, NAL
lards, teal and pintails. Old hunters
and men who handle game say they
never saw such fight of ducks in
February, and they are fat, plump and
pretty.
The Kansas patriots who became
exes on the 4th of March would be
ever so popular if they would return
to their homes and settle down to hon
est toll. Office seeking is bad habit.
The good things should go round.