The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1900-08-03


The Seventh U. $. battery left Fort
Riley on rush orders for China.
A fair sized fortune has gone up in
the smoke of burned wheat stacks.
Kingman voted against the purchase
of the mill race by a vote of 100 to 81.
The Kansas Wesleyan university will
build $4,000 girls dormitory this
year.
Arthur Stewart, of Dickinson county,
had his foot badly cut with pillow
share.
The twenty ninth session of the Kan
sas Grange is to meet at Manhattan,
Dec IL. next.
Fritz" the Twentieth Kansas dog,
was killed at Coffeyville. His skin
was mounted.
Bishop Finks order that Catholics
withdraw from the Modern Woodmen
is very unpopular.
Taylor Frick, the populist nominee
for governor of Nebraska, formerly
lived in Hutchinson.
Michael Bux, one of the oldest citi-
zens of Yates county, was killed in
runaway the other day.
Mitchell county had 1OO,356 acres of
wheat this year which has produced
nearly two million bushels.
1t was c. V. Esltridge who caused
the name of his county to be changed
from breckenridge to Lyon.
Norton county has no physician and
there is a smaller percentage of deaths
than in any other Kansas county.
DIR. LongneclSer, a veterinary surgeon
of Wichita, had his face kicked to pieces
by horse he was treating. He may
live.
Green cane and kafiir corn is causing
the loss of cattle, by their being al
lowed to feed upon it during the dry
weather.
Captain Crozier, who is member of
General Chaffee's staff in China. is a
son of the ex-chief justice of the Kan
sas supreme court.
The late rains have improved the
prospects of the corn crop in the corn
belt, yet much of it will turn out only
about one third of a crop
The ladies of Medicine Lodge have
raised and used over $500 in improve
ments of the cemetery and they say
have only begun the work.
Sylvia's new elevator will be ready
for business August l. 1t will have a
capacity of 5000 bushels, and is equip
ped with up to date machinery.
w. f. Boggs, of Saline county,
threshed wheat from IA acres which
yielded Al bushels per acre. The wheat
tested G215 pounds to the bushel.
A Juror at Mcpherson boarded with
a poor widow. He circulated sub
scription and raised enough money to
connect her home with the waterworlSs.
A gang of robbers blew open the safe
door in a bank in Richmond. 1t was
at midnight but the citizens rallied
and drove them off. They believe one
of the burglars was wounded. Blood
hounds were put on their trail
The federal courts have ordered exc
cution on the property of the Connecti-
and the New York Life Insurance COM
pany in Kansas, to satisfy the judg-
ment of Mrs. Sallic E. IIillmon- Smith
for S34 900
Kansas muskmelons are reaching
Boston at the rate of one carload a
day, and are making fine reputation
there.
The State oil inspection department
clearedS1, 134 "A in the month of June.
The collections aggregated S2,O49.10.
The expenses were S914.6G.
The supreme court sustains Sheriff
Smith, of Comanche county, in his re-
fusal to accept the bond offered by c.
A. Dougherty, who is held on the
charge of assaulting an 11-year-old
adopted daughter.
All crops are good about Eudora.
The potato crop is of fine quality and
larger crop than for years. Many
loads have already been shipped.
Ward Kinney, of Mcpherson county
threshed as acres of wheat which test
ed 60 to &c pounds and which sold for
s1,211.95.
Sixteen additions to Fort Scott, in
which there are only about so voters,
have been vacated, the object of the ac-
ton being to shift the maintenance Of
streets and bridges from the city to
the county.
c. G. Emo, of Osborne county, has
traded a ranch in that county for a
block of emf stone Residences in Kan