The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1899-12-22

enlisted men, 81 civilians, 70 womel
and children.
Leavenworth is dicltering with a Chi
cago firm, which is talking of locatin,
piano factory in the west.
Old soldiers of Republic county pro
pose to consolidate all of the Crane
Army posts in the county into one.
Captain j. G. Schliemann of the Tween
tieth Kansas is lecturing in Kansas
towns on "View of the Philippines"
There are five Kansas counties will
less than 500 inhabitants: Grant, will
4O5; Greeley, AGA; Haskell, 434; Morton
3o5; Stanton, 294.
The A. o. U w. lodge at Wamego
together with others who are not mem
bers, harvested and cared for 40 acres
of crops for a sick brother.
O. E. Pritchett. a brakeman ON the
Rock Island road, was run over at Man
kato. and had both legs cut off lie
died a few hours afterward.
The Kansas Retail Grocers and Gen
eral Merchandise association will ask
the legislature to pass more effective
laws for the collection of debts.
Merchants of Maple Hill have signed
an agreement which provides that
they will not sell any goods on Sunday
nor allow their clerks to do so.
Colonel Alexander Warner has closed
his Kansas career by selling his home
place at Baxter Springs. He will re-
turn to his old home in Connecticut.
The Kansas Experiment station dis.
courages the establishment of beet
sugar factories in Kansas, believing
that Kansas is better adapted to other
products.
Warden Tomlinson, of the state peni-
Tertiary, has made arrangements to
start the binding Irvine plant this week.
1t is the intention of the directors of
the penitentiary to keep the plant 60
ing all winter.
Shawnee county has lost S127, 144. 10
this year by computations on fractions
in the figuring up of taxes The loss
is unavoidable. When there is a frac-
ton of cent of taxes due on a lot, the
county loses it
Mrs. Mary Folk, who died in St.
Marys last week, was probably the
youngest bride who ever lived in Kan
sas. She was married at the age of H.
She was the mother of Mrs. George
Huycke, of Ellsworth.
Governor Stanley went to Washing
ton as a member of the committee APP
pointed by the president to make ar
engagements for celebrating the centen-
NAL of the establishment of the United
States government at Washington.
Governor Stanley will endeavor to
get the next Legislature to make an APP
preparation for home finders depart
ment. to work in connection with the
state reform school, the Beloit indus
trial school for girls and the Atchison
orphans home.
Governor Stanley has appointed w.
w. Guthrie, of Atchison; T. NJ. Potter
of Peabody; and T. A. Hubbard OF
Rome, as delegates to represent Kan.
sas at the meeting of the National Live
Stock Association to be held at Fort
Worth, Texas, January, 16.
State Oil Inspector S. o. Spencer
turned 81, 334 into the state treasury,
which he collected as fees for the in.
spection of oil and gasoline for the
month of November. The expense of
maintaining his department for tho
month was s5I4, This left surplus
for the state OF $500.
Dr. S. S. Cooper is dead at his home
in Oskaloosa, at the age of r. DR..
Cooper was a veteran of the Mexican
war. and in the civil war he served as
colonel of the Fourth Kansas militia.
New sO-pound steel has been laid by
the Rock Island from Lincoln, Neb, to
point about ten miles east of Belleville,
As soon as spring opens work will be
resumed on laying steel between Belle.
vile and Phillipsburg.
In the district court at Troy, Pool
Grinstead, editor of the Wathena Star,
was convicted of libel on four counts
T. Z. Stevens, secretary of the State
Prohibitory society, says that the pro
hibition sentiment is becoming active
again, that where three years ago lesl
than SO, 900 was raised, this year $685..
600 has been collected for the purposes
of agitation and prosecution.
Mrs. Hulda Middleton, of Lawrence,
has brought suit in the district court
against Z. Putze asking damages for
the results of liquor sold her husband.
| He became a common drunkard and
the petition recites that Putze is re.
sponsible for it.