The Chanute times., 1900-03-16

Kincaid has fund of 81 900 whicl
will be spent in prospecting for gas.
Phillips county is to have fair, cap
italized at 81, 900; all of which is sub
scribed.
The ladies of Downs have taken tn,
initiative in organizing an improvement
society.
Smith Center boys are subject to q
fine of S25 if found on the streets after
9p. m,
Miami county has its fourth free
rural delivery route instituted this
week.
Pleasanton may have a sailing sta
tion for one of the great picking COM
panies
Public libraries are increasing. Ster-
ling is greatly interested in the matter
just now.
Western Kansas farmers are shipping
baled alfalfa to Texas at the net price
of Sc per ton.
Fire destroyed six store buildings in
Waverly. The Waverly Gazette was
located in one of them.
The men of the Santa Fe at Emporia
are enjoying their cozy reading room.
prepared by the company.
Lumber dealers have been stocking
up their yards everywhere; evidently
expecting big trade.
Howard offers $500 reward for the
capture of the parties who fired the
Metropolitan hotel there.
DR.. A. S. Chouteau, an old practitioner
of Dodge City, dropped dead while at
tending one of his patients
The management of the Hutchinson
free library has received one hundred
volumes from Miss Helen Gould.
The penitentiary officials have fixed
the price of binding twine at 10 cents
a pound; sold direct to the farmers.
Marion county claims to have had
but one case of smallpox this year.
Last year the disease cost the county
81 600
The transcript of the Hillmon case,
taken by appeal from the federal dis
+,.;ot co,,rt oon+,;pc ova,. opo ,ni11iou
words.
Sewerage is gaining considerable at
tention in Kansas towns. Concordia
is preparing to do considerable work
in that line this year.
Frank Harvey, one of the gang that
robbed the Citizens bank at Altoona
has been placed in the penitentiary on
u ten years sentence.
J. L. Meconey dropped dead in the
audience at Lewis academy Heart
disease was the cause, the immediate
cause was laughing at joke.
Horses are still being shipped from
Dickinson county. Buyers are paying
% per cent more for horses than year
ago, and find it hard to find them.
Fred Now. living near Emporia, held
a piece of iron to track to see the
passing train cut it in two. The wheels
also appropriated two of his fingers.
The state bank commissioner went
to Edgerton, Kas, to superintend the
opening of a new bank, the State Bank
of Edgerton, with a capital of S., 600
George Thompson, of Atchison, who
has been planting wheat in Kansas for
forty-fye years, thinks a crop is certain
this year. He says that wheat was
killed after March / but once in this
state, in 1878.
The Jensen Creamery company cap
tured honors at the National Butter
makers convention. 1t produced the
best tub OF butter out of 60 from Kan
sas and received a $50 cup. Only nine
better tubs appeared in an exhibit of
s24 tubs
Jimmy Connor, the Lawrence and
Hays City boy who got rich through
speculating in Cripple Creek mines, is
off with his wife for tour of the
world. Mr.. Connor is the man who
purchased Robert Louis Stevenson's
villa on one of the Samoan islands.
4 number of Linn county farmers
are about to bring suits against the
Pittsburg and Gulf railroad for dam
ages to their farms from overflow upon
them of the waters of the Maris Des
Cynes river. caused by damming in the
grading of the road.
Colonel Ed Little and Mayor Hulleck
were appointed a committee by the
Abilene city council TO receive the
soldier dead of company L, soon to be
returned from the Philippines. Suit
able ceremonies win take place when
the bodies arrive
Warden Tomlinson will begin to re-
ceive orders for binding twine on
March 20. lie has about 300, 900 pounds