The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1900-08-10
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

missing since June 20.
The Rock Island is making extensive
improvements at Smith Center.
The Emporia Avenue NJ. E. church
in Wichita is to have a $4,000 addition.
State Librarian Anna Diggs says she
will not take another appointment II
that position.
The annual picnic of the johnson
county Cooperative Association was
held at Olathe July 2s.
w. c. Fair, of Caldwell, was over
come by damps in well and died be-
fore help could reach him.
Samuel Hazlett, Scotchman, aged
"A, dropped dead while working over
his wife's grave at Hartford, Lyon
county.
The Missouri Pacific train dispatch
er's office at Conway Springs has been
abolished and the men transferred to
Wichita.
The postoAice department has an
thorized the appointment of fifteen
more mail clerks to work on Kansas
trains.
Harvey, Mcpherson, Stafford. Rice.
Barton, Pawnee and Edwards counties
will hold their fourth annual logroll-
ing at Halstead, September II.
Circleville held an old settlers meet
ing, Woodmen logrolling and a
barbecue, all on the same day. 1t is
said that 5000 people attended.
II. j. Parker, who swore warrants
against eight Emporia druggists, charg-
ing them with unlawfully selling
liquor, has been arrested on a charge
of perjury.
Chancellor Shows report says that
there was one inch and seven-tenths
more rainfall during the month than
the July average.
Eight threshing machines were run
ming within sight of Cicero, Sumner
county, at the same time. One man
estimates that there are $50 machines
at work in that county.
Joseph Lewis, who served in the
Black Hawk, Mexican and Civil wars.
has been mustered into Lincoln Post,
in Topeka Abraham Lincoln was his
captain in the Black Hawk war.
During the recent big fire at Phillips
burg, a resident of the town managed
to get away with II pairs of pants and
IL pairs of shoes. The goods were
found in his possession the day follow
ing.
Agnes Thomas, aged 10, daughter of
Butler county farmer, was riding
horse when she was thrown over the
horses head and trampled to death.
The horses hoof went clear through
her abdomen.
w. w. Addington's daughter was
visiting at her uncle's farm in Mont
gomery county. and her cousin placed
his knee against her back and pulled
her shoulders back. She died from the
effects of the act
Fraucis McNeely sold 200 acre farm
near Lindsborg for $4,000. When he
took the claim in 1864 the buffalo COW
cred that part of Kansas and every
thing west to the Rocky Mountains
was in Piketon county.
On July Is there was paid for freight
on wheat shipped over the Missouri
Pacific from Lindsborg, $7s6.s Sc, and
the 10th $S64. 1t is estimated that it
will average during the shipping sea-
son between $500 and 5000 day.
This beats them all. DR.. Milton, of
Ford county has threshed ten acres of
wheat which averaged so bushels to
the acre and tested "a pounds.
The reason that circuses are scarce
in Kansas this year, railroad managers
say, is because engines are all better
employed than in hauling circuses from
town to town.
Mr.. Young, of Perry, Kas., started
to throw blazing gasoline stove out
of the house, when some of the gaso-
line spilled on his 1-year-old child, who
was burned to death.
August 20 is appointed by Governor
Stanley to hear applications for par
don. There are 125 cases on the dock
ct.
Cary Aikens, cattleman at Hoyt,
Kas., was thrown from horse and his
skull fractured. Physicians say that
he cannot recover. Later: he died.
Since the shipment of Kansas corn
TO India $500 has been received by Sec
rotary Anderson for the relief fund.
This money will be forwarded to the
Christian Herald Relief association in
New York.
A Twentieth Kansas soldier, while
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