The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1900-04-06

| cure TWO rural delivery roUtcS.
Colonel Holiday paid taxes for a
number of years amounting to $4,000.
Plans are accepted for the erection
of a $50, 900 court house in Reno coun'
ty.
The Santa Fe tracks between Flor
ence and Winfield will be ballasted in
April.
The Mail and Breeze is named as the
official state paper, by the executive
council.
The Odd Fellows at TonganoXie will
erect building of their own this
spring.
| Wellington is to have more side
tracks on account of increase of bust.
ness there.
Secretary Coburn says that great
many Kansas farmers are raising An
CORA goats
All over Kansas the girl graduates
TINS year are more tnan twice tile NUM-
Der of boy graduates.
The state military board has ordered
new companies of militia mustered at
Sabetha and Sterling.
John C. Karr, the man who built the
first hotel in Parsons in 1871, died at
Kansas City last week.
Martin VI. Jones, who lives near Can
ton, is said to be the Oldest pensioner
in Kansas. lie is past "a.
The Leavenworth Coal company has
sold its mine to the Home Riverside
Mining company for 100000
At the Presbyterian church in lola a
collection was taken up for the starv.
ing in India. 1t amounted to Sl39.
The railroads have granted a rate OF
one fare for the round trip for the Re-
publican state convention in Topeka
May 1G.
The Rock Island has new map
which shows by the shading of the
line the part of the country passed
in the day and in the night.
Kansas corn went up in price last
week and the Kansas railroads were
smothered in shipments of corn. The
state has big supply of corn on hand
still.
Governor Stanley urges all county
and state officials to attend the meet
ing of the national conference of
Charities which will be held in Topeka
May 1924
L. E. Jones and d. J. Davis, two
farmers of Harvey county. have gone
with their families to tour Europe and
visit the Paris exposition. Every dol
lar of it was shucked out of Kansas
Some wealthy sportsmen of Bridge
port, Conn, have sent to Kansas for
sixty dozen quail. AS soon as the birds
arrive they will be taken out in patches
and liberated at various points in the
country.
The Mulvane post Office has been
robbed. Dynamite was used on the
safe. There was taken 5000 in money,
500 in stamps and registered packages
in transit from the south waiting to 60
north on the Florence branch.
That special train which took man
from Los Angeles to Pittsburg Pa,
made the run from La Junta to Dodge |
City, 2O3 miles, in 1872 minutes. An
other squirt was from Dodge City to
Newton, 167 miles in 1853 minutes.
The town of Beattie in Marshall |
has had city government com
posed of women. They are all candi-
dates for reelection but there is an
opposition ticket this year composed of
men, named by friends of saloons.
Fire did $50, 900 damage to the
Barteldes seed store in Lawrance. The
stock was heavy, put in for spring bus
mess.
Job F. Gift, near Wellington, hasa
pig with one eye, one head. one month
and snout, eight complete legs and feet,
four ears, and two bodies from the
shoulders back.
The Grand Island road has bought
land and will establish stockyards and
switches at a point east OF Marysville.
The new yards are to have telephone
for convenience of shippers.
Jack Conarty. of Norton county,
marketed IS hogs, averaging less than
800 pounds, for which he received
s7949s.
Warden Tomlinson expects that de-
mands for Irvine will be far in excess
of the capacity of the penitentiary
plant this year. Orders are pouring
in from all sides.
Professor Dyche, of Kansas Cniver-
sitv, has been inside the Arctic circle
the past six summers. This year he
proposes to stay at home 50 as to once
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