The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1900-05-18

Dickinson county's district court
has not single criminal case on the
docket.
There is to be new town in Craw-
ford county named for the late General
Lawton.
Treasurer Coburn had up to May 7
received Sii, 800 in cash for the India
relief fund.
During April there were shipped
from Wakefield 25 cars of hogs and 600
cases of eggs.
| A new NJ. e. church to cost $4,000 is
proposed at Sterling. Contracts for
stone are made.
Work on the new administration
building at the insane asylum at Tope'
ka is commenced.
Theassessors' count of the population
of Concordia is 3,76O; a gain of nearly
200 over last year.
Captain George Ritchey, ex-postmas
ter at Leavenworth, died at the Soldiers
home last weekiaged go.
Vim. McNabneys farm house, east of
Jetmore, was torn to pieces, with all
it's contents, by the wind.
Rev. NJ. d. Goerz, of the Mennonite
Bethel college, has started for India to
distribute aid to famine sufferers.
The Sumner county commissioners
have accepted the new jail and sheriff's
residence, built at cost of $500
Frankfort, with population of 1900
or over, has department store which
has floor space of 1000 square feet.
Reports of the officers of the Sons of
Veterans show that the order is de-
creasing in camps and in membership.
The Kansas conference of the Swed-
ish Lutheran church convened last
week at Mariadahl, for its thirtieth
annual session.
An agreement has been made by
which La Crosse is to have so barrel
flour mill, to be in operation not later
than September l.
Mcpherson county assessors agreed
to assess at 20 per cent of the value OF
the property and now school boards
say that schools cannot be maintained.
A New Hampshire produce company
has shipped $50 carloads of eggs from
Hutchinson so far this season. The
eggs brought the producers over $780,
900.
The beautiful little town of Everest
in Brown county lost practically all OF
it's business buildings by fire last week.
Loss $35, 10000 more, half of it covered
by insurance.
Christopher Hester ofLone Elm came
to Kansas in 1858. He is "a years old.
He still does full portion of farm
work. He says he never was sick and
never tasted liquor.
The statistician of thedepartmento of
Agriculture says in his May report:
"Kansas, which ranks third in the
scale of acreage, reports the high aver
age condition of 10Y, the highest
average reported on May of which
there is any record. "
John Speer says that Josiah Miller,
of Lawrence originated the Kansas
motto lad astra per aspera" and that
he had never heard before the present
discussion of the matter that John j.
Ingalls, claimed to be the author of 1T.
Mr.. Miller was chairman of the COM
mittee on state seal in the first Kansas
legislature and Ingalls, was clerk of
the committee. The motto is engraved
on Miller's tombstone. Miller once
told Speer how delighted he was when
he hit on the motto.
A Waverley farmer gives figures to
prove an average profit of 1888 from
his quarter section farm, since it was
opened.
Eat Yates Center, during heavy rain,
the 7-year-old son of Senator Lamb was
run over and mangled by hand car.
The first report states the child was
still alive.
The new Y. NJ. c. A. building in
Leavenworth is finished and opened; it
is three stories high and has all modern
improvements; best of all it is free
from debt
VIM. NJ. Kilbure, a Reno county
farmer, has an automobile which he
uses in his trips to town. Iii assessed
as being worth 5000.
Western Kansas cattlemen say that
they are likely to have more feed than
they can use, as they do not see where
they can get cattle enough to eat the
prospective crop.
The NJ. X. & T. railway company
proposes to enlarge the machine shops
at Parsons, and also to construct an
Office building there, expanding be-