The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1900-01-12

DR.. j. w. Madara, of Greeley county
is an army surgeon on the island Jolo
Miss Rebecca Baxter, of Franklin
county was thrown from buggy ant
killed.
Five women have recently been adde'
to the force at the Topeka pensio;
Office.
The probate Judge of Shawnee coun
ty issued about $50 marriage licenses
in 1899.
A movement is now on foot to clost
up the telephone exchange on Sundays
in Marion.
The holiday business on the Rock
Island was enormous, nearly double
what it was last year.
Seven hundred people turned out to
witness the opening of the new Y. M.
C. A. rooms at Ottawa.
B. B. Smyth has been elected libra
rim of the Kansas Academy of Science
for the sixteenth time.
Farmers institutes are being held all
over Kansas this year. They are grow
ing to be very popular
w. II. Rankin has been designated
as member of the civil service board
for the postoffice at Lawrence, Kas.
The poor commissioner gave away
200 tons of coal to the poor of Shawnee
county during the month of December
1t takes eight days for the raw ma
tei'ial to be changed into binding Irvine
at the new plant at the state peniten-
tiary.
Congressman Curtis is pressing his
proposed appropriation for a new
building at the federal prison at Leav-
enworth
Rev. G. D. Olden, very able pastor
in Topeka, had been sold on the auc-
ton block three times before he was
II years old.
Business men of Burlington may put
up fund for the purpose of sinking
hole in order to find what wealth lies
buried down there.
new creamery is to be established
at Womer, Smith county. A steam
separator and a $1,000 plant will be
erected in the early spring.
A Wichita man has shipped sample
of canned jackrabbit to England. If
this is received favorably he viii go
into the business on large scale.
R. E. Torrington, who was formerly
employed in the Santa Fe freight
offices in Wellington, has been appoint
ed ticket agent for the Rock Island at
Wichita.
At Chillicothe, Illinois, the mother
of j. G. Johnson of Peabody, caught
fire in lighting lamp and was burned
to death. The children were gather
ing for family reunion on Christmas.
R. A. Goodman, living five miles
west of Wichita, is entitled to a prize
as the champion hog raiser of Kansas.
A few days ago he slaughtered Po-
land-China hog which, when dressed,
weighed exactly $40 pounds.
The class of large girls at the Sol
diers Orphans home at Atchison has
been reduced from thirty to ten in the
last three months. w. F. Martin, state
agent for the home places about eight
children month in families, and the
number of children in the home has
been decreased from 22O last August to
165 at the present time.
Representatives of the National AS.
ISOLATION of Charities and Corrections
will visit Topeka to make arrangements
for the convention of that order which
is to be held in that city in May.
State Auditor Cole refused to regis.
ter 5000 worth of Delaware town.
ship, jefferson county refunding bonds.
The bonds provide for an interest rate
of per cent which Mr.. Cole regards as
suspicious circumstance as the state
school fund would take the bonds at
Az per cent. His action will allow
time for an investigation.
New call boxes have been put in
place in many offices and business
hon es in Topeka. The boxes are so
arranged that messengers. police, cabs
or express wagons can be called by
simply pushing the indicator to the
right place.
Sam Triplett, of Labette county has
been awarded a medal for gallant
action in the Cuban war. He was
sailor on the Marblehead and performed
a perilous feat in cutting the cable at
Cienfuegos. He is now on the battle
ship ind ana.
Stephen Balch, who has large vine