The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1899-11-10

| nrSt Shipment OF Dutter lasb Week.
Ernest Harrington of Sabetha, Kas.,
broke leg in football scrimmage.
It is said that more than 100 Topeka
men have invested in Arkansas zinc
lands.
Phillipsburg is to have new flour
mill with a capacity of 100 barrels
daily.
Bill Higgins has sold part of an in
terest in mine he has in Colorado for
SEQ, 900.
The Union Pacific will fence its right
of way in western Kansas with lime
stone posts
Leavenworth Jews have dedicated II
synagogue which they have named The
House of Jacob.
An Alton real estate firm received
letter recently directed to them as
"Wrela State" agents.
An explosion occurred in Downing
Bros. NINE at Empire City, in which
w. II. Downing lost his life.
Mrs. Belle Steel, of Concordia, Kan,
has been appointed teacher at the
Indian school at Nutria, N. NJ.
At Alton, says the Empire, the wind
blew away six loads of dirt which had
| Just been hauled on to the street.
Colonel Lewis of Humboldt is dead.
He founded the Presbyterian church
there one of the first in the state.
A new tile floor has been put down
in the dining room at the reform
school at Topeka. 1t was badly need
ed,
The Lincoln roller mills have in
creased, the capacity for making flour
from one hundred barrels to $50 bar
rels daily.
The seventeenth annual session OF
the North Central Kansas Teachers
association will be held in Manhattan,
November 80.
The old Methodist church at Round
Prairie has been torn down and the
pulpit was sold for use as a bar in q
Leavenworth saloon.
Fairview has had bad fire in which
six buildings were destroyed, causing
loss of S25, 600 The Fairview Courier
is among the losses.
Mr.. Larzelere, a sheriff of northeasti
ern Kansas, who was after the bandits
there last week, did not lie down OIL
sleep for period of 81 hours.
The Wichita postof1ice stands next
to those of Denver and Omaha in the
amount of business transacted as ar
agency for the smaller postoffices.
Republic county has 100000 hog.
credited to it by the state agricultural
board outside of those which are emu
merated on the registration books.
T. E. Hockett & Son, the melon seed
growers and contractors of Caven, are
preparing for big shipment OF seeds
this week. They will probably have
1000 pounds of melon seeds on the
market.
Kansas occupies better position in
the nation today than she ever did be-
fore The high-class publications,
Harper's Weekly and publications OF
that order, have given more space tc
Kansas this year than in all years pre-
vious.
In the present year SO carloads OF
brick have been shipped into Abilene
and used for building walks, mostly
in the residence portion of town. More
walks than this indicates have been
laid for some brick were already in
stock.
The Hereford men make the boast
that in five years from now sixty per
cent of the cattle sold in the Kansas
City stock yards will have white faces.
The white face is figuring very much
in the stock yards now and is getting
more attention every year.
The widespread interest taken in al
falfa by growers of all kinds of live
stock is indicated by the fact that the
area in Kansas has increased from a.
3s4 acres in 1891 to 27s,477 in 1899,
making a total gain of PA, 093 acres, or
| 700 per cent.
A farmer, says the Seneca Tribune,
gave his note for $40 for a steel range,
from which big board bill was to be
deducted Later the note turned UP
in the hands of an innocent party"
who refused to credit any board bill on
it. The range pedlar never passed that
way again.
oberlin will have foundry soon.
The gentlemen who will operate it
wanted bonus of $500. BY private
subscription sIs3 was raised, and the
county commissioners pledged Decatur
county for the balance.
| Grant CiI1ett and his wife have the