The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1899-12-15
The Alliance store at Osborne is stip


every week to California.
Marion takes vote on extending
The franchise of the water works.
Farmers living east of Clifton are
clamoring for free delivery route.
Norwich has several cases of scarle
fever and the schools are dismissed.
An effort is being made at Sabethi
to organize a company of Nationa
Guards.
Ex-Governor Click purchased bust
ness property in Kansas City and paic
$50, 900 for it.
Colonel Dick Blue, eX-congressmar
at large, lost his entire law library 10y
a fire at Vinita, l. r., the other day.
The Kansas BARRIERS association
meets in Hutchinson February 6, TIC
take action looking to the passage OF a
state law providing for state license
for BARRIERS.
There are 1,O55 students at Kansas
University, the largest number ever
enrolled at this period of the year and
indicating an enrolment before the
year is out of 1900.
The retail lumbermen of Missouri
and Kansas are said to- be considering
the advisability of erecting big mill
and producing lumber themselves, ow-
ing to the repeated advances in the
price.
A Mennonite church in the country,
in Mcpherson county, which has recent
" been completed. has been dedicated.
1t was erected at cost of So, 700, every
cent of which was paid before it was
dedicated.
Wichita Eagle: DR.. j. p. Kastor, Oh
Topeka, visited this city. He is chief
surgeon of the Santa Fe hospital sys'
TEN, and while here inspected Wichita
hospitals with a view of creating a
division hospital here.
Mr.. Curtis, of Kansas, submitted the
petition of the guards at the United
States penitentiary at Leavenworth,
praying for the enforcement of the eight
hour law. The Kansas delegation will
Jointly ask that the petition be grant
ed.
The cattlemen of the Western coun-
try are considering proposition to
form a Western sanitary association to
look after the cattle interests of this
section. This question will come up at
a meeting of livestock sanitary boards
of all the states and territories west of
the Mississippi river, bordering upon
the quarantine lines which began at
Kansas City on Dec. s.
The judgment of the interstate COM
merce commission in the Kansas grain
rate case orders the various Kansas
railroads not to charge over B cents
more per hundred for hauling corn
meal than they do for corn, and fur
Their orders that no higher rate be
charged for intermediate points than
is charged for hauling freight from
Kansas City to the Gulf, While the
Judgment is in the nature of an order,
it is not binding, as the commission has
no authority to enforce its orders.
A suit to test the validity of the law
passed by the legislature of 1897 to tax
judgments has been argued in the SUI
preme court Three reasons are given
why the act is invalid. The first is
that the subject of the act is not clearly
expressed in the title. The second is
that it provides for a rate of assessment
and taxation that is not uniform and
equal. The last reason is that it attempts
to provide for the taxation of judgments
held by citizens of another state Major
A. NJ. Harvey, who was lieutenant gov
ernor and president of the senate when
the law was passed, and who signed it,
wrote the brief and made the argument
attacking the constitutionality of the
law.
In sale of the last remaining prop
erty of the Argonia State bank, notes OF
the face value of $12, 900 were sold for
Ss225.
Leonard Miller of Williamsburg,
was unintentionally shot by his brother
Roy. The boys were playing in the
house, using an old musllet in their
play.
David Horkman, the Concordia boy
who lost the sight of one eye and the
hearing of one ear at the battle of
Caloocan, has received pension of SIT
a month.
Ida Pierce, wife of John Pierce, a
Wyandotte county farmer, who eloped
some time ago with James Spruell, a
negro farm hand, has returned to her
husbands domicile near White Church.
She has been received back home by
her husband.
Articles of incorporation of the Ne
braska & Gulf railroad have been fled.