The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1899-10-20


about 200 tons of pumpkin piled up il
their backyard.
II is estimated that in 1900 Kansas
will hold six hundred political conven
tons Of various kinds.
A Barber county man last week re
fused 81, 500 for quarter for which h'
paid 5000 last spring.
The Ellinwood Leader actually en-
courages the organization OF an anna
teur dramatic company.
The new dairy barn at the Agricui
tural college will accommodate eighty
two cows when completed.
Topeka society girls are going to act
as mattresses at the banquet to Tho
Twentieth Kansas regiment.
The papers are beginning to appear
with the usual fall stories of cattle dy'
ing as the the result of eating cane.
A. G. Stacey, the newspaper CORE
spondent, has been released from the
federal penitentiary at Leavenworth'
IN his speech at Boston, Secretary
Coburn mentioned the fact that both
Patchen and Gentry are Kansas horses.
The Liberal News says that last week
over four thousand pounds of water
melon seed were shipped out of Seward
county.
Lieutenant Humphrey, whose cour-
age saved lives in the Philippines, is a
Wichita boy. He is an officer in the
regulars
Governor Rogers of Washington is a
formerly of Kansas" man. He lived
first in Harvey county and then in
Ness county.
Five complaints have been filed by
F. b. Dawes and Thomas Fenlon in
Leavenworth county against keepers
of joints at Klondike.
Secretary Barnes, of the State Hor-
ticultural society, is trying to collect a
car load of Kansas apples for an eX-
hibit at the Paris exposition.
Mrs. Funston is an Oakland, Cali
fornia, girl, and because of this the
women of Oakland entertains the
whole Kansas regiment to dinner.
Charles S. Reed, once county attor-
ney of Wilson county, has been nomi-
mated by the Republicans of Sandusky,
Ohio, for judge of the court of common
pleas.
The petition of Almena lodge to be
allowed to solicit aid for an Iowa
brother living there, was adopted al
most unanimously by the Grand Lodge
|. o. of o. +.
The Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows
closed their work at Wichita and adj
journed to meet next year at Topeka,
that city having secured the favor af-
ter hard contest.
Judge Fernic, of Reno county, holds
that where q mortgagor of land grants
the rightof-way to railroad company
without the consent of the mortgage,
md without any proceedings to con-
1emn the land, the mortgages inter
EST is not affected, and the purchaser
1T foreclosure sale under the mortgage,
n his grantee, may sue the company
or compensation, though he cannot
recover damages incident to the entry
before he acquired title.
Topeka has an aunt Martha" a ne
gress who is 121 years old. She says
The remembers seeing soldiers march
past her home in Virginia during the
evolutionary war; was in Washington
md saw General Jackson in parade
Vt the close of the war of 1912. She
cooked for soldiers during the civil
var and was in Washington when the
,reat review occurred. She now asks
or good position on the reviewing
stand when the Twentieth Kansas
marches in Topeka.
One of the special cars of the United
States fish commission, in charge of
Captain Groves, is now engaged in dis
5ributing fish in Kansas. The car is
fitted with every conceivable convent
,nce for transporting fish. There arc
twenty-five departments for the differ
ent kinds of fish carried, and each is
by water and air pipes.
A bequest of 81 900 was received from
Philemon and Mary Jones of McLouth,
for an endowment fund for
the Friends university, in addition to
the same amount given last year.
Upon discmbarking at San Francisco
Lieut.. Col. Ed. Little picked horse to
ride to the Preside. 1t had been re-
served for Governor Stanley. He pick
ed another. 1t had been reserved for
Adjutant General Fox. General Shat