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

The Smith county district court con
victed five jointists at the present tern
giving them heavy sentences of fine
and imprisonment,
Olathe will probably make an attemp
to secure the Baptist Theological Sem
mary which it has been decided to 10
cate in some town in the west.
The Kansas Medical college at Tope
ka, will have the largest graduating
class next spring that has been grad
mated since the college was started.
1t is quite probable that F. w. Zook
the Winfield young man who is trying
to secure a position as officer in the
regular army, will have his ambition
gratified.
Wendell Mclaughlin, once stenogra'
pher for Senator Plumb, has sailed for
Manila to act as stenographer and in
terpreter for the navy. He sprung up
at Wichita.
A newsboy on a katy" train cheated
a passenger few days ago. A special
officer of the road happened to be on
the train, and at the next station the
newsboy was put off.
One firm in Topeka has refunded ST.
'OO0,O worth of Kansas school and
township bonds inside the last year
In.every case the interest has been re-
duced 1 to per cent.
A Smith county man who had to quit
shucking corn for half day while he
picked load of shot out of the hide of
one of his horses thinks that the hunt
ers ought to be more careful.
A. F. Ratio, of Seneca, was lieuten-
ant in the company of marines who
captured John Brown at Harper's
Ferry. j. f. Wilson, of Hays, was also
a member of the same company.
A burglar robbed the store of r. A.
Kier in North Lawrence and he was
found unconscious with his face bruised
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He had been struck with an axe.
T. C. Price, Judge of the Thirty-frst
judicial district, covering eleven coun-
ties of southwest Kansas. has announ-
ced his intention to resign and remove
to Sanduslky, Ohio to practice law.
Notices have been received in Tope-
ka from Frank II. Peters. of Leland,
Texas, asking for information of the
whereabouts of Landon c. Peters who
was last heard of in Kansas. The mis-
sing man has fortune waiting for
him.
Joe Besser, formerly sergeant in
company c, Twentieth Kansas Volun-
teer infantry, prides himself as the
owner of bottle of whisky which he
carried with him from Leavenworth to
Manila and which he brought back
with him without being opened.
Goodland News: The RabidouX boys
tell us that they never saw the equal
of last weeks rain since they have been
in the country, and they have been
here over twenty years. The ground
was wet down two feet and will not
dry out this winter, which will give
the fall wheat a good start.
The Santa Fe has perfected a ma
chine for the easy handling of coal,
which is worked by compressed air.
1t is used especially for loading coal in
to cars. 1t is practically an endless
chain of buckets. The coal is shovelad
into the buckets and the air machine
Soiste them into the car and they are
dumped,
1 Almana's city council has offered $50
reward for every conviction of an I'M
lawful sale of liquor.
The stockmen are seriously thinking
of asking the legislature to build a Sc
ries of good dirt roads through Kansas
that may be used for driving cattle.
Along these roads would be placed tcle-
phone lines and at certain places feed
ing yards. The cattlemen of the state
say that the only loss would be in the
matter of time that it takes the cattle
to get to the market that in driving,
the cattle would lose no flesh.
Lieutenant Fox, formerly of the
Twentieth Kansas has been selected to
succeed Captain George f. Rising, as
commandant at the st. Johns military
school. Mr.. Fox is reported as having
made good war record while in the
Philippines.
Work has been stopped on the Rock
Island improvements at Belleville for
the winter. Forty-fve hands who
have been working on the stone crush
er at Montrose have been discharged
and 40 have been laid off on the bal
lasting gang
In its six months existence in Leaven.
worth the new city court has tried POI
cases. SO of which were criminal. The
new court is popular