The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1900-10-12


at Hutchinson by electing officers.
The enrolment in the Wichita pub
lie school is 4,O9s. The high school has
i3l.
The Wichita Eagle carries advertise
ments for a wholesale firms of that
city.
Thirty cattle mysteriously disap.
peared from pastures in the vicinity OF
IIoxie
Topeka is out of hard coal and the
dealers refuse to book orders for the
future.
Colorado buyers found and bought "A
carload of ,40O-pound horses in Wal
lace county.
Joseph Allen, n sewing machine
agent from Iowa, fell dead in the street
in Enterprise.
Mcpherson is one of the Kansas
towns that Is compelled to provide
more school rooms.
Ten thousand people are said to have
attended the Chetopa old soldiers re-
union and street fair.
Every room at Midland college is
occupied and rooms about town are
also used by students
The state board of education will re-
ceive applications for state and insti-
tuition certificates on October -.
The water company at Cherryvale is
seeking to enjoin the city to prevent
putting in municipal waterworlIs.
The Rock Island handled 5S9 eXcur-
sion passengers from points in Illinois
to Kansas and Oklahoma ON October 3.
Thousands of bushels of apples are
reported to be going to wa tie in Riley
county from the lack of shipping buy
crs.
The premium for the tallest stalk OF
corn at the Wilson county fair was won
by stalk which measured II feet,
inches.
The Burton car works buildings III
Wichita have been contracted for by
Pawnee Bills wild west show for win
ter quarters.
A wreck occurred west of Strong City
ON the night of October 3, in which 9
cars of cattle, two of hogs and one of
wheat were smashed.
An SO acre field of sorg um sown for
forage in saline county, measured six
feet high just 60 days from the time the
seed was put il to the soil.
George Dorsey, machine worker of
Wichita, was found dead in one of the
cars of wheat which were ditched on
the Missouri Pacific line in Chautauqua
county.
Four thousand feet of lumber which
had been rented for the use of the Vel
lington jubilee disappeared and will
now have to be paid for by the juGilee
management.
The harvest home exhibition as Ar
kansas City, carried out Il good pro-
gram. 1t was the first of the kind
there and will probably result in regu-
lar annual exhibitions
Distr ct court stenographers' feee are
coming into the state treasury; as
under the present law the state pays
salaries to stenographers and their
fees go into the treasury.
Miss Lillian Dyer, appointed by Gov
cgnor Stanley as student in the New
York art school last year, is married
with Milton Butterticld, an attorney To-
Gated on Wall street, that city.
A Topeka firm is now employing 30
men, working II hours a day, to fill
contracts for the new court houses at
Beloit and Clay Center and for Haskell
institute in Lawrence. The contracts
are for doors, windows and inside
finish
Ensign Lands, from Medicine Lodge,
IS said to have been on the gunboat
Villabos, which is either lost or cap
tured in the Philippines
Mrs: Bernice Winchester was cross
ing the railroad tracks at Marion when
pilot bar on the engine struck her
shoulder and neck. She was killed in
stantly.
4Senator Beveridge, of Indiana, lived
in Dighton, Kansas fifteen years ago.
Dighton had but two buildings then,
one of them sod hotel with muslin
partitions.
Winfield received four inches of rain
in four days last week. Seeding is
not finished, but the wheat that is
planted is getting good start.
The short crop in Illinois and in the
northwest caused many threshermen
TO ship their machines to Kansas.
There are more machines working in