The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-06-11

county mas increased 3,OuU IN une lusb
year.
An Ohio firm is beginning to work
Kansas counties by selling sheriffs
bloodhounds.
Leavenworth has female footpad,
who is described as powerful negress
who assaults and rots unwary pedes-
TRANS.
An Emporia woman has written a
waltz for which Chicago publishing
house offers to pay royalty or buy
outright.
Fifteen hundred dollars were paid
out last week to the patrons of the
Cawker City creamery for their product
of milk in one month.
The Kansas hen and the Kansas COW
are coming in for much attention just
now by speakers and writer's. For all
that the hens have to scratch for liv-
ing.
The proposed changes in the Santa
Fe yards at Newton have been arrang-
ed. About two miles of new track will
be built Work will be commenced
about June Goth.
General j. c. Caldwell of Topeka,
whose fame as Decoration day orator
is state WIDE, delivered the Memorial
day address at Newton. II was the
feature of the afternoons exercises.
Arthur English, aged II, mysterious
ly disappeared from his home in Hia-
watha June and no trace has been
had of him since. He was sick with
fever and is supposed tC have wander
ed away in his delirium. He is de-
scribed as a tall and slender youth
with dark hair and eyes and a promi-
nent nose At the time he left he wore
dark striped shirt, blue overalls and
old Shoes
John Mccarthy, a veteran 65 years OF
age, was found on the morning of May
3Oth at Leavenworth, under n chute of
the Leavenworth coal company, in
badly battered condition. After re-
ceiving surgical attention the old man
said he happened into saloon where
he pulled out 500 in currency and treat
ed the men there. When he left he
was followed by two men, and the
next thing he knew he found himself
near the edge of the river bank.
News comes from Dillon in Dicliin-
son county, of a fractional fight among
the Rowe family, which has created
much excitement in that neighborhood.
Frank Day and w. j. Rowe and their
wives caught VIM. Rowe, commonly
known as "Red Billy" in an alley and
horsewhipped him. The women did
the horsewhipping, the men merely
seeing that the victim did not escape.
They beat him over the head and
shoulders with the loaded ends of bug
gy whips. He did not try to make any
defense and said afterward that the
first blow stunned him. Rowe received
three scalp wounds, his lower lip was
cut cash cut above one eye and his
face and back were badly bruised. He
will probably have his ASSISTANTS ar
rested.
Kansas oil is being shipped from the
Neodesha refinery daily and has been
in use for several days at Fort Scott,
Chanute, Cherryvale, Humboldt and
many other points. The operators of
the refinery receive their shipping or
ders from Chicago. The field supplied
by the Standard from this point is
known as the Kansas division and en-
braces the entire state and portions of
Nebraska and Missouri bordering upon
kansas, including at present Kansas
City and eventually Omaha, also. Thus
territory nearly twice the area of
Kansas gets the benefit of the oil pro-
duced in this state The pipe connect
ing the Thayer field with the refinery
at Neodesha is completed and prepare
tions are going on in that district to re-
sumo drilling new wells at the earliest
possible date.
The new postmaster at Stafford is
named Fort. He will hold it.
A portion of the valuable collection
of bird eggs made by George Little and
Warren Benedict, and presented to the
Kansas university museum, has been
stolen from it's case in the museum.
The part of the collection taken was
the valuable eggs, the common ones
being left in the case. This has lead
to the belief that the thieves were egg
patherers with some knowledge of the
value of eggs, but further than that
there is no clue.
The Minister'S association of Ottawa
has made an appeal for aid in behalf
of the starving people of India.
One day last week George Hartle's
little boy, near Lyons, was bitten on
the foot by rattlesnake. He was ia
ken direct to Lyons where the wound