The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1900-05-04

Six young ladies acted as pail bearers
at funeral at Olive Hill, Jackson
county.
r. II. Rarnes, of Topeka, is conduct
ing an industrial home in Matanzas
Cuba.
Primary elections are very SHINY at
tended, the farmers are too busy fo'
politics.
Arkansas City has closed the bargain
for the purchase of the waterworks
there.
Only one couple has been married
in Peabody by a justice of the peace in
IS years.
Washburn's baseball team won over
the Kansas University boys by score
of z to 5.
The Hampson ranch shipped from
Burns last week car of hogs which
sold for $751;
Independence has taken the initial
steps to become the owner of the water
works there.
Robert C. Johnston, of Lawrence, a
dealer in Angora goats, has now herd
of 500 of them.
John Allen, merchant at Ottumwa
was shot dead at his own door, in COM
pany with his wife.
Mrs. Fred Funston has an article in
the May Cosmopolitan on "A Soldiers
Wife in the Philippines. s.
Fifty-three Poland China hogs from
Council Grove, which averaged 354
pounds, brought S.. 40 in Kansas City
A La Cygne boy went west a couple
of years ago and bought an abandoned
gold mine. This week he sold it for
$4,000
John T. Mcdaniel. of Attica, cele-
brated his s7th birthday and the 61st
anniversary of his marriage, both on
the same day
Sergeant w. Millillen, of Company
G.. Twentieth Kansas, has been ap
pointed to charge at Bartlett by the
Methodist Conference.
Captain Daniel f. Mccarthy is Or
dered from New York to Fort Leaven-
worth to assume charge of the construc-
ton of buildings there.
There is an epidemic in Topeka of
the disease known as 'pinkeye. A
few years ago only horses had pinkeye,
but now people have it.
Two hundred union carpenters are
on strike in Kansas City, Kansas;
most of them were employed on the
new Cudahy packing plant.
The body of John Blagg, once a
prominent Farmers Alliance lecturer,
was found in the Solomon river near
Abilene, having evidently been in the
water several days.
The Topeka postoffice is allowed
extra clerks during pension payment
week. The pension business of that
week requires the handling of over
100, 900 pieces of mail.
James Edmonson, of ottawa, has just
received S92 20 from the war depart
ment to re imburse him for money adj
vanced out of his own pocket for rail-
road fare during the civil war.
A Glasco man sold IA grade Herefords
coming two, of his own feeding, at
$5.25. They averaged 1856 pounds;
another Glasco man Is of the same cat
tie at S5.15, which averaged 1870
pounds.
A Methodist preacher at Madison dis
covered that the members of his choir
played cards, went to Sunday picnics
and did other Goddess deeds. He asked
the whole choir to resign and they re-
signed.
Six cars of breeding cattle from Iowa,
billed to Winona Kansas, were held
in quarantine at Kansas City.
A picture of an old Kansas farm
house, with his mother standing near
the door, caused Edward Moon, young
convict in the Kansas penitentiary, to
try to escape. The house is of the sort
built by the Kansas pioneers, with
trees in front and vines climbing the
sides. On the back of the picture is
written in trebmling hand: Eddie,
these are vines that you planted by the
house"
A Presbyterian pastor in Dickinson
county, and the officials of his church
had disagreement and the trustees
locked up the church. The pastor went
at the proper time each Sunday and
tried the door. 1t is said that he will
bring suit for his salary.
Governor Morris is setting out 10000
apple trees this spring. on his farm
near the Leavenworth and Wyandotte
county lines This completes 500 acres
Of the 500 acres he intends to have in
apple trees in one body. He plants