The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1899-12-08

head of cattle for market.
Ottawa will build new headquar-
tiers for its fire department.
Senator o. II. Bentley of Wichita, has
bought 500 ducks to stock his ranch.
cJewell City has not had n saloon
since the prohibition law went into
force.
One wholesale grocery firm of Topeka
has paid their personal property tax OF
SO, 200.
Fred Harvey of the Santa Fe eating
houses is getting well. He is still in
London.
The railroads have to put up S91, 900
every year for taxes in Mcpherson
county.
Four thousand chickens were Shipped
from Seneca last week, billed for San
Francisco.
The Topeka wooden mills enlarged
their capacity by so per cent during
November.
Ex-Governor Click purchased bust
ness property in Kansas City and paid
$50, 900 for it.
Colonel Dick Blue, eX-congressman
at large, lost his entire law library by
a fire at Vinita, l. T., the other day.
In northern Kansas new sect is hav,
ing a run of great popularity. 1t is
known as the White Fire Baptized
Band of Holiness.
Frank Best, Norton county stock
man, was accidentally killed by the
discharge of a pistol while being taken
apart for repairs.
Buffalo robes are becoming more val
liable every year. At Hiawatha man
was arrested for stealing a robe which
was valued at $40.
The Christian denomination has
about completed their church at Ran
dali at an expense to build and furnish
it of about s., 500.
VIM. Bauman, a merchant of Kansas
City, Kas, was forced into bankruptcy
by his creditors and within three weeks
paid off every obligation in full.
There are several Mormon elders
in Kansas preaching. They are in the
state most of the time. They must
get converts or they would not stay.
An attempt will be made to secure q
pardon for Harry Mason, the Marion
banker, who, after having been SEN
fenced, went to the penitentiary unat-
tended
The sevente nth annual convention
of the Kansas State Temperance Union
will be held in Topeka Wednesday and
Thursday January 10 and II, beginning
at 4 p. IN.
Work will commence soon on bridge
across the Kansas river at De Soto. 1t
is to cost SIS, 200; of which johnson
county contributes $4,000 and Leaven-
worth county $4,000.
The Exchange bank of Stockton de-
cided to quit In thirty days time
every loan made by the bank was col
lected, all depositors paid in full, stock
holders paid in full with 80 per cent
profits.
Attorney Harry Wood of Wellington,
first lost his barn by fire, at which time
his buggy was taken out and cut to
pieces in front of his house. Now his
house and outbuildings have been
fred, but the house itself was saved.
j. w. Wilson, pastor of the colored
Baptist church in Atchison, recently
preached funeral sermon over the
body of poor, Woodworking woman
who supported her family by doing
washing. She was not a member OF
any church and the preacher told his
congregation that she was suffering
among the damned because she had
died without repentance.
Walter Woods and Roy Medley en-
listed in the Twenty-Second Kansas.
They were transferred to the staff of
General Miles as stenographers. Woods
is now in the adjutant generals Office
and Neeley is stenographer to Governor
General Brooke in Havana.
Harry Kistler, Wichita restaurant
keeper, was hunting near Cheney,
and had a dog and his gun in the bug
gy. The dog became restless and in
moving about discharged the load of
shot, hitting Kistler in the side of his
head. He died in twenty-five minutes.
The first grain elevator of the Central
Branch of the Missouri Pacific was put
up in Wetmore in 1870. 1t is still in
use,
The Associated Fanciers have decid-
ed to offer $500 in prizes for poultry ex-
hibits at the poultry show which will
be given in Wichita this month. W..
S. Russell of ottawa, Ia, will judge the
show.