The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1900-02-02

At a fire in Wichita the other night n
water main bursted and flooded whole
block.
A Clay Center photographers took
four newly married couples in one day
recently.
February 6 is the thirty-fourth ami
versary of the founding of Washburn
college.
E. b. Davenport, farmer near Atch-
ison, sells capons in Kansas Citp at So
cents each.
Kansas towns are generally forming
commercial clubs. The latest to do SO
is Pleasanton.
Ellis expects the Union Pacific to
spend lot of money on improvements
there this season.
Mrs. Lee Cochran was killed and her
husband badly injured at road cross
ing at Lebanon.
Lieutenant Uline took seventeen ar
tillery recruits from Wichita He goes
to Pittsburg next.
w. II. Biddle, state treasurer under
the Lewelling administration, is now
resident of Wellston, o. Z.
James Huffman, brakeman on the
Hutchinson & Southern, was run over
and killed at Rago, Kingman conn
ty.
Miss Helen Gould has contributed
$500 for library to be placed in the
Y. M. C. A. reading rooms at Fort
Scott.
A bill is before Congress to build
civil federal reformatory at Leaven-
worth, for the confinement of young
prisoners.
The secretary of war transmitted to
the house an estimate of S225,000 for
rebuilding officers quarters at Fort
Leavenworth, Kas.
Christian Scientists of Howard have
established reading room, open to all
who wish to take advantage of it from
l to p. m. every day.
The J. S. Smythe bank at Stockton is
closed and settling up. 1t is hoped
that it will be able to pay out in full,
at sacrifice of it's capital.
A stock company with capital OF
about 81 900, has been organized at
Williamsburg, for the purpose of Dor
ing for gas or oil Williamsburg is en-
thusiastic over the prospect.
In the southwestern part of McPher-
son county are some sand hills and
sand lands. For years they were avoid
ed. Germans came in and took them
and have made them blossom like a
garden.
d. A. Guilds, of Fort Scott, through
Major Martin, of the Twentieth Kan!
sas, has received from the adjutant
general the gun carried in the Philip
pine war by his son, Halle Guilds, WING
was killed on the firing line.
DR.. Charley Howe, of Atchison urges
the residents of towns threatened with
smallpox to remember the vinegar
treatment. DR.. Howe cleaned the
smallpox out of Lenora with the vine'
gar treatment and says that it is doing
good work at Centralia, where the dis
ease has been confined to a single case.
Mr.. John Kyle relates that when ho
first came to Cawker in 1871, he made
trip to the present site of Gaylord,
and while there a woman died and NO
coffin could be procured. Part of the
roof of house was taken off TO make
a box for her burial. The cost of lum-
Der at that time was $50 thousand.-
Cawker Ledger.
Milton Bernheizer, while running a
threshing engine over bridge near
Manchester, went down with both en-,
CINE and bridge, being pinned under
the engine more than an hour. He
was badly hurt but may recover.
A history of the Masonic home in
Wichita has been ordered compiled and
printed in neat booklet form, which
will be illustrated with cuts of the va,
rious buildings, showing exterior and
interior views, and these will be dis
tributed among the Masons of this AID
other states.
The Wichita council and school boare
have been talking over plans to make
the city library free. 1t is at last de-
ciSed that it shall be free.
Prof Virchow, of Berlin, will ex,
hibit to his class in pathology Kan
san, Leeds Wilkins, reputed to be the
tallest man in the world, pointing out
the remarkable abnormalisies of his
skull.
lewis J. Monroe was shot in a stage
duel at Wichita opera house, and
died with the lochjaw. He was with
the Three Musketeers company.
Bert Cole was driving in a buggy
near COTS, and collided with Central