The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1900-09-21

tractor, died in Wichita last week.
The death of L. d. Lewelling leaves
six eX-governors of Kansas still alive.
The cattlemen of Greenwood county
raised S175 for Galveston relief in quick
order.
The night shift of the Santa Fe yards
in Newton handled OF cars in one
night.
A soda fountain explosion at Downs
broke II. w, Fortunes leg and crushed
the bones.
County clerks of Kansas will hold
their annual meeting Mt Emporia ON
September 81.
Apple packers at Leavenworth are
paying from 70 cents to S1.25 per bush
ell for apples,
Kansas soda fountains sell clarct in
phosphates and ice cream parlors serve
frozen egg nog.
The first annual reunion of the
Twentieth Kansns occurs at Hutchin-
son September 27-20.
Preparations on large scale are
being made for the G. a. r. reunion at
Wichita, October 20.
The Doniphan county court house
has been set on fire but there was not
much damage done.
A Jackson county farmer lost 5000
diamond while attending the Circle
vile Woodmen picnic.
Wellington excludes bcggars and
hand organs and the like from the
streets during the jubilee.
The football team of the Smith Cen
ter high school challenges any high
school eleven in the state.
Topeka has 90 miles of paved streets
and little more than two miles con-
tracted for. The city has lis miles of
streets.
Numerous reports are published
about relief sent from towns in Kan
sas for Galveston. Space permits men
ton of but few of these.
The Wichita Chapter of the Daugh-
tiers of the American Revolution are
working on a plan to erect statue of
George Washington in Riverside park.
A Russell county teacher who attend
ed the normal institute, rented a fur
nished room and boarded ten of her
fellow teachers, making her expenses
and something more.
The Wichita trolley street railway
manager gave to the Wichita hospital
one-fourth of the receipts of the day
on which the ladies were given three
fourths. This was surprise.
James NJ. Davis, of st. Louis, who
two years ago gave the old Garfield
University to the Friends church, is
now preparing to raise a $1,000 900 en-
dowment for the same establishment.
Ora G.. Scott, crazy boy in Fort
Scott, attacked his grandmother, Mrs.
w. j. Wickersham, with Ratchet,
penetrating her skull in fifteen places
He was seventeen years old. The boy
was supposed to be harmless, and his
mind was first affected when he served
as subject to hypnotist.
VIM. Hatton shot and MORALLY
d. p. Hamilton at Great
Bend, September II. Hatton was in a
hack and the driver called Hamilton,
who was at the barn, to come and help
take him out. When they got him,
Hatton commenced shooting at the
driver and Hamilton rushed on Hatton
to stop the shooting but was shot him
self
Dennis Harkins who has been work.
ing at hay camp on Fort Riley reser-
walton, fell from freight train near
Ogden and was cut in twain.
Twenty-one of the school district
clerks of Bourbon county failed to re-
port their district tax levy in time to
have them on the tax rolls. The dis |
tricts suffer and the clerks are liable
to be fined.
Jacob II. Roller, farmer living sew
en- miles west of Topeka, was struck
by Union Pacific train while driving
to town and instantly killed.
The Reno county commissioners are
to defend the county against a suit
brought to enjoin them from deciding
lands sold to the county for taxes dur
ing the past three years. The plain
tiffs attack the constitutionality of the
law.
1t is estimated that the total wheat
yield in Ellis county is 1000, 900 bush
els and it averages sixty or more
pounds to the bushel. This means
234 bushels to every man, woman and
child within the county. 1t means
1. 333 bushels for each voter.