The Chanute times., 1899-11-24
The State Bank at ealena is a new

mited and its cash carried away.
Five Wellington men are ready to
put up cash for wholesale grocery
there.
Archie Keech, Gray county farmer,
rounded up SEQ, 900 last week in cat
tle deal.
| = large natural cave was found on
tho farm of John j. ingalls,, near Atch-
ison, tthis,week.
Heavy shipments at Liberal continue
and the record of the year are likely 70
beat the record.
Frankfort is said to number among
her citizens an unusually large number
of retired farmers.
Near Clyde, Kansas, the young cattle
are dying off with something which
resembles black-leg.
The Topeka dailies now reach Wlch7
ito one whole day later than they did
up to few days ago.
The Southern Kansas Teachers asso-
citation will hold convention in Wich-
tia December I and 2.
Ex-Congressman Ben Clover fell OFT
of wagon in Butler county the other
day and broke his collar bone
Up TO date only eight members OF
the Twentieth Kansas have applied for
labor through the State labor bureau.
The Woodmen of the World have
erected monument at Wynnewood in
honor of Oliver G. Cable, deceased
sovereign.
People who own lots in Leavenworth
continue to sue the coal company for
the value of coal taken from under
their property. The last suit is for
500, 900.
Members of the State Board of Edu-
cation visited Fairmont College and
Friends University at Wichita to de-
eide upon their right to issue certit-
Gates to teachers.
Two masked men broke into the
Parker state bank, bound and gagged
Cashier Slaughter who slept in a rear
room. blew open the safe and got
s1,5OO. They then stole two horses
and skipped.
Mrs Ellen Kelleher is register Oh
deeds of Graham county. Two years
ago she was the only one on the re-
publican ticket elected. This year the
populists refused to nominate anyone
against her
Ex-Governor G.. w. Click has sold
his famous Shannon Hill stock farm
near Atchison, to John W. Knight of
New York for 100000 The deal in
cludes the well known Click herd Of
Shorthorn cattle.
Capt. Adna G. Clark of Lawrence,
commanding the Lawrence company in
the Twentieth Kansas, will draw a
pension of $3G month. He was
wounded in the shoulder, and the ex-
amining board rated him as half dis
abled.
Wellingtons refunding bond deal
has been finally closed The citys $780,
600 Of railroad aid bonds bearing six
per cent interest have been taken up
by the state school fund commission
and been exchanged for the four per
cent refunding bonds.
The supreme court has decided that
the shade trees in front of a mans res
idence belong to him, although they
may be located on public property.
The case in which the decision was
rendered was one in which the proper
ty owner sued a telegraph company for
cutting off the limbs of his trees.
The Kansas State Horticultural So
ciety will hold it's thirty-third annual
Z meeting in the rooms of the society in
the State house in Topeka Dec. 81, %,
, and 30. One fare for the round trip.
Everybody is invited to attend.
| The recent fire at Troy destroyed
. Cy Lelands opera house building in
, which were the Doniphan county State
: bank and the post office. His building
occupied as a hardware store wa:
D burned and his two story brick genera
4 store, on the corner was badly dam
aged.
i The two steeples of the new German
n Catholic church in Topeka are nearing
= completion. They are probably th'
d tallest steeples in town.
Two sons of Captain Means, of Sedg
s wick county, put in, cultivated AM
p gathered 10 acres of corn, without an.
e outside help. This alone is worthy o
# mention, because it could not hav
g been done anywhere else in the worl
# outside of Kansas. When they ha
# finished cribbing they found that tn
i two boys had earned within 90 day
over 1900 bushels of excellent corn.
20 The State printer has delivered vo