The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1900-08-17

Three wild swans have been sent
east from Wichita.
The Wellington Cape Nome crowd
are on their way home.
John Pratt recently died at Woodbine
at the age of l0l years.
Mrs. Hay, of Arkansas City, has
lived in one house 20 years.
A train passed over the central divi-
sion of the Santa Fe with 12s cars re-
Gently.
A woman's club at Beloit is raising
funds to extend the water mains to the
cemetery.
William Smith was badly injured by
the explosion of a threshing engine
near Caldwell.
A Dickinson county man is said to
have cleared Sc, 600 in two years with
a merry-go-round.
The state board of charities will soon
advertise for bids for building the new
asylum at Parsons.
The Katy announces a 40 cents per 100
pounds rate for Kaw Valley potatoes to
Texas common points.
Commissioner Briedenthal has de-
clared the Mutual Building and Loan
association of Topeka insolvent and
has taken charge of it.
Emporia owns her own electric light
plant. A lineman fell with a rotten
pole the other day and now he is suing
the city for $4,000 damages.
Presiding Elder George w. Howes,
of the Southwest Kansas conference of
the NJ. E. church, died recently of con-
gestion of the brain. Death came sud-
denly.
A company has been formed which
has bought so acres of land in Saline
county to establish plant to burn
gumbo ballast and will employ 35 men
at the start.
The $4,000 Indebtedness upon the
college of Emporia has been paid and
and now the $35, 600 library, which Mr.
Carnegie offered to give the college
upon that condition, will come.
Geo. E. Chamblin, of Girard, a Goth
Kansas soldier, after being married
two weeks, was accidentally killed
with a gun. He was buried July 7,
and his wife died of broken heart a
month later.
Three st. Francis men punched their
cattle and hired a herder The boy
went after rabbits with his dogs and
the cattle went into a field of green
sorghum and Is of the cows were killed
by being gorged with the sorghum.
The application for writ of habeus
corpus in the case of Miss Jessie Nor
rison, of Ell Dorado, was refused, and
and the sheriff was enjoined from re-
moving her to the Wichita Jail. She
remains in the Butler county Jail with
out bail.
A shipment of supplies received at
the Leavenworth Soldiers home
weighed 10000 pounds, consisting of
hats. caps, shirts, drawers, socks, pants
coats, blouses, shoes, suspenders and
stationery. The total membership of
tho homo iS now 2 51Q
One Kansas dealer alone shipped
200, 600 bushels of hard winter wheat
to Minneapolis and he said that he was
one of the dealers who handled COM
paratively small amount of wheat.
Kansas hard winter wheat is going to
the Minneapolis mills to be ground up
and sold as Minneapolis spring wheat
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Governor Stanley has endorsed E. T.
Fairchild, president of regents of Kan
sas Agricultural college, as custodian
of the Fort Hays military reservation,
the 1000 acres recently granted by
congress to the state for educational
purposes, until the legislature next
winter takes action in accepting said
donation to the state.
j. H. Picket, of Guelph, celebrated
his s3rd birthday recently. When he
first visited Arkansas City it had four
houses.
1t is said that seven Harper county
farmers have cleaned up, oiled and
carefully sheltered their harvesting
machines.
Mrs Joseph Herman, of Burlihgame,
with the entire family, were travelling
in wagon and while camped south of
Coffeyville, was burned to death while
cooking. There were five children,
the youngest months old.
A movers team was burned in liv-
cry barn at Lyons and citizens raised
a purse to help replace it. The movers
loss was 81, 200.
Fire Chief Ed Keelin, of Galena, lost
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