The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1899-10-06

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loads of grain in one day recently.
Cherokee county will this fall vote on
The proposition to establish II county
High school.
There are moro extra trains speeding
about in Kansns this fall than the state
ever heard of before.
The forticth annual convention of tho
Kansas diocese of the Episcopal church
was held in Wichita this week.
The j. G. Lysle Milling Company OF
Leavenworth have transferred thei,
mill and two elevators to the millers
trust.
A Rocks county man makes consid'
cradle money breeding st. Demands
He ships pups all over The United
States.
The annual reunion Of the old and
new soldiers of southwestern Kansa:
will be held Mt Stafford from Octobe
l6 to 81.
Burglars got into Il hardware store
at Phillipsburg and took lot of fine
cutlery. They were captured at Smith
Center.
j. P. Pomeroy offered Mr.. WaggcneI
s75, 900 for his interest in gold mine
Mt Victor, Colo, and Mr. Waggener re-
fused the offer.
Lieutenant Ingalls, enlisted thirteen
men ON his second visit to Wichita,
making more than fifty volunteers en-
listed by him in that city.
Postmaster Guthrie has new picture
of the officers and employees of the post
office system in Topeka. There are
sixty employees altogether,
During the state reunion at Topeka,
last week, the Santa Fc shopmen dis
played seven large flags, besides several
smaller ones in honor of the old sol
liers.
Stockmen from Marshall county APP
pear to figure in the market reports
with stop cattle about as frequently
rs those from any other section of the
state, if not more SO.
The remodeled vault in the Office OF
the state auditor has been completed
and is one of the finest in the Kansas
state house--except that it is not large
enough to meet the needs of the de-
partment.
Kansans are having more fun this
year than they ever knew before. Four
rircuses are touring the state, and no
man is obliged to travel many miles
before hitting a carnival or jubilee of
some sort.
1t was hoped that the electric line
between Leavenworth and Kansas
City would open for traffic by Oct. l,
but it is now announced that owing TO
unexpected delays the line may not be
in operation before the first of No
vember.
Mrs. Julia Binhcad, widow living
in Wichita, has found q certificate of de-
post for $4,000 issued by the bank of
Trenton, Tenn, January 23, 1868. 1t
was deposited by her brother, William
l.. L. Richardson of Macoupin county,
ILL.,, who entered the army.
Shell Rock township, in Greenwood
county has refunded $4,000 worth of
railroad bonds, making saving of
1900 year in interest. Another town.
ship in the same county, Madison, re-
funded bonds to the amount of $1,000
and will make a saving thereby of $40
annually.
w. II. Barnes, secretary of the State
Horticultural Society, is at work on a
treatise on the "Kansas Peach" which
will be acompanion volume to 1.-The
Kansas Apple" The work will contain
ESQ pages.
The best of the apple display at the
Oak Grange fair was turned over to
Secretary w. III. Barnes of the State
Horticultural Society. Mr.. Barnes has
had the fruit placed in cold storage and
it will be exhibited at the December
meeting Of the State Horticultural So
ciety.
A recruiting officer enlisted quite a
number of colored men at Pittsburg.
Makato's new water-works system is
progressing rapidly. The pipes are
now being laid.
Southern Kansas grain men are ship
ping all their wheat to Europe by way
of Galveston, in spite of the threats of
Kansas City to boycott the railroads.
A car containing 1900 bushels of
wheat was shipped out of Downs few
days ago. The Times says it is the
largest load Of wheat ever shipped over
the Central branch.
Miss Lutte A. Lyle, the Topeka col
ored girl who has the distinction of be-
ing the only colored female lawyer in
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