The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1900-11-02

penitentiary during the past month.
Reports indicate an increase of the
wheat acreage in Western Kansas this
fall.
Peabody has its electric lines again
running, all differences having been
settled.
Judge Randolph, of Enporia found
n little live turtle in a bass he was
cleaning.
A 3 600 600 foot gas we'll has been
struck in new field, seven miles frol1
Coffeyville,
! Fifty grain elevators have been built
along the Kansas railroads during the
past six months.
There are no houses to rent in Bur.
lingame and there is work there for
80 more miners.
The Marion Record has in its Office
kafr corn ten feet high; the product of
Marion county.
The French Bennett Grain company
proposes to build a 500, 900 elevator
in Topeka at once.
Bob Torrington, of Wichita. has been
advanced to the position of tourist
agent of the Rock Island.
The asylum contest between Parsons
and Clay Center comes before the su.
preme court on November :.
That seven pound sweet potato in
Ed Greer's Office may as well wilt as
Wichita has one weighing u pounds.
One Wabaunsee county firm shipped
from Alta Vista within three days
thirty-two cars of cattle, billed to Chi
cago.
/. +. Griswold. ranchman of West
ern Kansas, reports n net profit of S21
an acre on his alfalfa crops of hay and
seed. this season.
Mrs. Margaret Brown, aged oS, died
on October "a, at the home of her |
daughter who is the wife of Justice
w. A. Johnston, of the supreme court |
of Kansas.
Rev. Don S. Colt, former pastor OF |
the first NJ. T. church of Wichita, is
now in charge of Grace church, Balti-
more. one Of the finest aud largest in
the land.
Tow freight trains on the Missouri
Pacific collided near Horace, Greeley
county, and one engine and five cars
were demolished. Engineer Thompson
was Slightly hurt.
The Kansas court of appeals for the
northern department has decided in
case from Topeka that no city had
legal right to pass a search and seizure
liquor ordinance.
Mary Voelher, an employe of the
Manhattan hotel in Wichita, is going
to Germany, having been notified that
she has fallen heir to onc-fourth of an
estate there, valued at $500, O00
At the Kansas City horse show Silk
wood, owned by Jacob Willetts, for
merly of Topeka, but now of Santa Ana,
California, was sold to l.. b. Willetts,
of Newman, Kansas, for 50, 100 Silk
wood is 14-year-old stallion.
The general conference of the Men.
monte church will be held in the large
Ebenezer church at Butler. Dele
gates will be present from Sas-
and Manitoba and from the
states from North Dakota to Texas.
Five prisoners broke out of the Co.
lumbus Jail. They were pursued and
when overtalSen one of them shot at
the sheriff He was instantly killed
by shot from that officer, when the
other four surrendered. The dead man
is a negro.
A county reunion of the Twentieth
Kansas and members of the Eighth
army corps was held at Girard On Oc-
tober 81.
The Rev. DR.. John w. Roberts died
at his home in Oskaloosa, October 90,
thirteen days after the celebration of
his golden wedding. He came to Kan
sas in 1860 and founded the Oskaloosa
Independent the same year.
Mrs. w. r. Irwin, of Emporia, has
five banana trees which have borne
fruit. They are taken inside in the
fall and the frui. ripens in February.
Fred Wellhouse says the apple yield
in Kansas this year will be about one
fourth Of crop. He says that the
orchards in the western part of the
state bear much better than those in
the eastern part.
The Pacific Express company held its
annual sale of unclaimed packages at
Salina. Over 500 packages, gathered
from many places were sold at auction.
There was large number of wooden
boxes. The first box sold was found