The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1899-11-03

graduate OF the State NORMAL, cluSS o.
'04.
A post office has been established al
Letchum, Cherokee nation, /. T., ano
Jesse NJ. Geltman appointed postmas
ter.
Concordia is experiencing pleasant
thrills. The II. d. Lee Mercantile com
pany is figuring on opening a branch
there.
An Osborne man unearthed a perfect
buffalo skeleton 10 feet below the sur
face of the ground while digging well
recently.
The three principal towns of Jewell
county, Mankato, Burr Oak, and jew
ell City are now connected by a single
telephone system.
The old artillery sheds at Fort Leav-
enworth are burned to the ground.
They had been empty since 1891 and
were of no real value.
Rev. Davis, pastor of the Baptist
church at Gaylord, also acts as superin-
tendent of construction on the new
church that is under way.
A. Mueller of Burlington, spent
seven years in the Transvaal and he
does not have very favorable opinion
of President Kruger or of the Beers.
Pittsburg has built a building for the
court of common pleas and has present
ed it to the county. The structure lisa
handsome one and cost about $50, 900.
CARRIER, O. T., station of the Rock Is
land, Is miles east of North Enid, open
ed for regular business October 80, with
Mr. w. p. Voorhees, as agent in charge.
Bud Colbert, Chickasaw is building
the finest residence in Indian Territory.
1t is on the Twelve-Mile prairie near
Caddo, and will have about twenty
rooms.
The assignment of Major General
Guy V. Henry to the command of the
department of Missouri with headquar-
ters at Omaha, was surprise for the
regulars at Fort Reno.
Cattle are coming into Liberal from
all points of the compass, but mainly
from the south and west. This is the
greatest shipping year in the history of
that end of the Rock Island.
Mr.. w. l. Allen, who recently resign.
ed as assistant general manager of the
Rock Island road, will become general
Of the Iowa Central railway,
with headquarters in Des Moines.
John w. Breidenthal is making a
collection of different spellings of his
name. Once he had 157 different va
rieties but he lost the book in fire at
Chetopa. So he began all over again.
Jim Upton, the veteran hotel man at
Downs, is cousin of Sir Thomas Lip
ton The yachtsman sent his Kansas
ttll w uuuCilti tiiC ttSCo
but it was not possible for him to ac-
cept.
A cattle train was wrecked, October
20, near Argonia on the Southern Kan
sas road. Eight cars were smashed up
and 200 cattle killed and probably 100
crippled. The train was enroute from
Texas to Kansas City.
Bunnie Meade, of the Meade Cycle
Of Chicago, is in the city visit
ng his father, Hon. j. r. Meade. He
S way up near the top in the roll of
lonor of Wichita boys who went out
uto the wide world and made a great
success.
1t required 1850 electric lamps of
different colors to form the notices |
md decorations to be used in the cleo
,rical illumination of the State house |
or the reception. Of this number 400 |
will be used in the electric flag over the |
southern entrance, and the lights will
appear and disappear in such way
Is to give the flag a waving appearance.
Oklahoma pastures are covered with
punch and buffalo grasses, which are
nutritious all winter.
Kansas has been an excellent field
or pickpockets this year. The street
airs, carnivals and reunions have
brought together people for them to
work on and they have done the rest.
While cutting" a bunch of cattle,
'om. Reeves, n stock shipper of Par
,erville, was thrown on his head and
houlders by the falling off his horse,
md his neck dislocated. He lived some
ime after the accident.
Topeka Capital: An account of the
of the Wichita street fair
md carnival should be sent to Queen
The Wichita style will prove
IN eye-opener to her when she reflects
IN the polSey style in which such func-
ions were performed in the long ago