The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1899-11-17

cents buShel for corn IN Jewell coun'
ty.
The Union Pacific will fence it's right
of way in western Kansas with lime
stone posts.
The Y. M. c. A. of Topeka has a
night school and the school has me-
chanical electrical course.
There is shoe shop at Olathe which
employs 81 shoemakers, Cowboys boots
is the speciality of the shop.
Citizens of Quenemo presented fine
ly engraved gold watch to Milo La
Mont, their representative with the
Twentieth.
An Osborne man who lost about $500
worth of cattle last winter from black
leg has just finished vaccinating his
entire herd.
The Union Pacific is making ar
rangements to erect kilns and burn
gumbo on the bottoms mile east OF
Abilene for ballast.
Kearney county-away out in the
shortest part of the short grass coun-
try-will have fine fruit exhibit at
the Paris exposition.
The last bill has been paid by the
managers of the Wichita street fair.
There was shortage of 1896 which
was made up by merchants in a few
minutes.
In Marion county the Republicans
turned down the present sheriff, an
old soldier, for denomination and the
cid soldiers retaliated and elected the
Populist candidate.
The township of Carmi in Pratt coun-
ty has been sued for defaulted interest
on the SIG, 800 in railroad bonds it is
sued to the Kansas Southwestern Rail-
way company in 1887.
So far Governor Stanley has granted
nine conditional pardons. Every man
so pardoned has q job and is doing
well. They have all reported to the
governor once a month.
The convent now being built at Mt.
St. Scholastica, in Atchison, is proba-
bly, the largest building in Kansas,
outside of the public institutions. 1t
is 9O0x190 feet, four stories high.
w. c. Johnston has resigned his posi-
ton in the Santa Fe treasurer's office
and accepted position with the gen.
eral freight agent of the Gulf, Colorado
& Santa Fe railway at Galveston, Tex
as.
In great many Kansas towns there
are stores with show window or two
full of souvenirs of one kind and an
other from the Philippines, from beads
to cannon. No wonder the Tartar was
crowded.
at is fact" says the Frankfort Re-
view, "that there is more railroad bust
ness to be attended to at this station
than at any other station between
Atchison and Concordia." The papers
from Clyde, Clifton, Greenleaf and
Blue Rapids will now take the floor
and make few remarks.
w. /. Allen, the Rock Island man,
who was married in Topeka the other
day, has divorced wife and she is in
shutting proceedings to void the di..
vorce decree, charging that when she
consented to the divorce and signed
papers she was not responsible, being
under the influence of drug.
The convention of the Seventh dis.
trict federation of clubs elected the
following officers: President, Mrs.
Sora R. Priddy, of Wichita; first vice
president, Mrs. Anna Jones, of Lyons,
second vice president, Mrs. Keren II.
Buck, of Kingman; secretary, Mrs.
Church, of Wichita; treasurer, Miss
Effle Smiley, of Wellington.
i. o. Perley, of Omaha, has just
made valuable donation 10 the muse
UNI of the state normal school. The
collection consists of over 1000 speci-
mems which he had gathered and class,
fled with great care. 1t includes a
great variety of valuable ores, crystals,
fossils, etc.
In digging well northeast of Beau.
mont some time ago. mineral that re.
sembles zinc ore was discovered in such
quantities that a company has been or
ganized to see what it is and to work
it.
The Missouri Pacific put force Of
men to work taking up the track west
of fuka, but an injunction was served
and the work stopped. This part of
the road was never used but the bonds
were voted for road to the west line
of the township and it was built.
Usage City is expecting that parties
from Kansas City will establish tile
and sewer pipe factory there, using the