The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1900-11-23

Representative w. c. Millar, of Bar
Der county, was defeated for reelection
by two votes.
Miss May Scott, an lola girl, is elect
ed school superintendent in Bingham
county, Idaho.
The lola cement plant in one day
sent out Is cars of it's product and or
dered 20 empties.
j. f. Todd, formerly labor commits
sioner of Kansas, was elected to the
lower house in Oklahoma
Jewell county farmers harvested
their last cutting of alfalfa in the
middle week of November
Some farmers are moving their
wheat to prevent its jointing. This
experiment will be watched.
General j. X. Hudson and Ex-Gov-
ernor John p. st. John, are both hand
ling mines at Versailles, Mo.
The State Teachers association will
meet in Topeka during holiday week
as has become the settled custom.
Sedgwick county employs @7o school
teachers; exceeding the number en-
ployed by any other Kansas county.
Members of the Canton National Aid
associa ton turned out and husked John
Evans orn crop because he was sick.
Clarence Olson, Lindsborg student
at Yale college, has been selected to
participate in the Yale Harvard de-
bate.
John R. Harrison, of Salina, Kansas,
now postmaster at Havana, has been
made acting director general OF posts
in Cuba.
Some of the department heads in the
state house are knocking because the
governor insists that they shall be more
economical.
A number of white persons are claim
ting to be relatives of Bert Higginboth-
am, the negro who died at lndepend-
ence leaving unclaimed property.
Elgin, Chautauqua county, with a
population of 300, is the largest cattle
shipping point in the world. 1t is the
loading point for the Usage pastures.
The work of preparing bills is already
becoming voluminous. OF course there
will be hundreds presented to the legis-
lature that will deserve no considera-
ton, as usual.
Jas. Downs was killed at Cedarvale
while making an effort to save the life
of girl who was in buggy with
runaway team. The buggy pole passed
through his body.
Two inmates of the Beloit industrial
school set fires at that institution
which destroyed $40, 600 worth of prop
erty. The problem now is whether to
send them to Lansing for committing
arson.
There will be no inaugural ball in
the Kansas state house this time.
There has been no ball at the three
preceding inaugurations. The prac-
tice was started early and was not
until it was Governor Nor
rills turn.
State Grain Inspector Mckenzie
turned into the state treasury $4,151,
the amount collected in fees during
October. This paid up an existing de-
fciency and the expenses for October
and left $193 to the credit of the in
spection department.
The 5-year-old daughter of A. M.
Sturm, of Concordia, fell backward
into tub of scalding water and died
within an hour. Her father was lying
at the point of death at the time from
an accidental gun shot wound received
during the previous week
Probably the oldest house in Kansas
was built in Kickapoo in 1884 by the
Catholics for mission school. Cover
nor Reeder, first territorial governor of
Kansas, used it as his office; later it
was occupied as the first U. S. land
office in Kansas. 1t is still standing.
Robert Campbell and George Parkin-
son are both graduates of the Wichita
high school. They are both gaining
high rank in the Northwestern Univer-
sity of Chicago. Last year Winfield
student carried off the honors at the
Northwestern.
A starch factory company in Michigan
has contracted for 10000 bushels of
Gull potatoes in the Kaw Valley. 1t is
promised that if he gets contracts for
$4,000 bushels they will locate a starch
factory at Bonner Springs.
The Kansas Millers' association at
the session in Wichita empowered b.
Warkentine, of Newton, to arrange
for the importation of Crimean hard
wheat for seed The idea is to place
car of the wheat in every county of