The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1900-04-20

SnougnnaSSee, tne famous Iottd""''
omie chief, is dead. He was 30 years
old.
A Mcpherson horse dealer has shipped
seventeen cars of horses within few
months.
Rev. James, of Oakley, gives 100000
to the Bethany hospital in Kansas City,
Kansas.
The members of the state board on
health have all been reappointed for
another term.
Judge Stillwell opened court at Erie
but no lawyers appeared. They had
all gone fishing.
Smith Center high school has Il class
of twelve ready to graduate; ten OF
them are girls.
The bank commissioner is straighten-
ing up the affairs of the Citizens bank
of Yates Center.
Mrs. Myrtle Cade, of Osborne, died
from the effects of poison contained in
canned tomatoes.
Everybody in Baldwin helped TO wipe
out the debt standing against the col
ored NJ. +. church
Horses are bought in Kentucky and
are coming to Fort Riley in punches
for the Eighth cavalry.
Emma Gregory, of Paola was called
to the door in the night and seriously
shot with shot gun.
There was last week seventy.five
cases of measles in the Soldiers Or
phans' home in Atchison.
The Long-Cue Lumber company is
preparing to place more yards in the
northern part of the state.
Parsons has voted $1,000 bonds with
the proceeds of which to make another
effort to develop natural gas.
A new string of elevators is projected
along the valley of the Big Blue, on the
Union Pacific's Lincoln branch.
The postmasters of Marion county
will meet on May S to form an associa-
ton 'for the good of the cause"
Labette county man had surplus
money and looked over the field for the
best investment in sight and bought
two farms
R. S. Torrington the Wichita ticket
agent of the Rock Island has been pro-
noted to city ticket agent of the Rock
Island at Kansas City.
The state Agricultural college IL
weeks dairy school used 10000 pounds
of milk and 1880 pounds of cream,
and made 5000 pounds of butter and
1900 pounds of cheese.
The spring rush of shipment of stock
is keeping the Santa Fe busy. Extra
train crews are sent south to take care
of the business. Many trains of cattle
are rolling eastward these days.
A ten year old girl, Katharine Lyons,
found what she thought was tin can
near the railroad. She put it on the
track and hit it with rock. 1t was a
torpedo and now she has but one eye
and is otherwise injured.
Mrs. Eliza Christman, of Topeka,
who died recently, aged so, made in
her will Rev. Embree administrator at
a salary of $500 year. Part of the
will provides for the erection of a
Methodist university at Topeka.
The Cimarron river is on a bender,
the highest ever known. All the irri
eating dams and bridges from the
Colorado line to the territory are
washed out. Liberal and Arkalon were
without trains and mails for some time.
A coursing meet occurred in Man
llato at which racing dogs took part
from Mankato and Lawrence in Kansas
and from Texas, California, Colorado,
Nebraska, Minnesota and Indiana.
Mrs Elizabeth Wells is dead. Her
self and her husband were the first
white settlers in Marshall county, 45
years ago. When they broke up their
first planting ground, she drove the
oxen while he held the plow, and the
baby was visited as he lay in his
blanket at the end of the return fur
row.
The will of John /. Blair was record
ed in Barber county, as he owned some
property there. The will covered 81
pages of the record book.
Superintendent of Insurance Church
has had occasion to examine but two
insurance companies since he has held
the Office and in both of these cases it
was by request.
A divorced couple went before the
district court at Concordia and asked
that the Judgment for divorce be set
aside The request was granted: the
first case in Kansas.
The Kansas City and Topeka electric
line, IL is said, will be running between
Eaneas C;tv and Lawrence in lime and