The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1900-02-23
Sherman county hogs have never had

Lawrence has a good roads conven'
ton appointed for March 10.
Ten inch ice has been put up at Burn
Oak and IL inch ice at Dispatch.
Much California fruit is in passage
on the Santa Fe these cold days.
Seven quarter sections have just been
sold, lying south of Goddard, at $500
a quarter.
The Santa Fe has been sending much
material into Oklahoma of late, for
low track.
Robert Farrar, of Frankfort, has
been appointed head gardener at the
Topeka insane asylum.
Horse dealers are taking all the good
horses offered and at good prices and
are shipping them east.
Burton III. Hartmann, whose home
was at Oswego, Kan, was drowned III
the bay of San Francisco.
f. Bierer, of IIiawatha, is visiting
his three sons who are in the govern
ment service in Washington.
The January receipts of the Lansing
penitentiary were SIS, ASP more than the
expenditures for the month.
The new poor farm in Butler county
is equipped with a piano and is the
scene of many entertainments.
Senator Harris has introduced bill
appropriating 100000 for the public
building Pittsburg is asking for.
The assembly board of the Ottawa
Chautauqua proposes to erect a boys
building, 3Ox60 feet to cost 81, 900.
The Kansas agricultural college has
$25, 900 on call in Washington, being
the eleventh annual installment.
An Atchison school teacher has set
the multiplication table to rag time
and the children learn it in a week.
At Olathe the manager of the can
ming factory wishes to contract with
the farmers for a thousand acres of
sweet corn.
Ira f. Collins, of Sabetha, recently
paid 1925 each for seven Shorthorn
yearling heifers. He has also bought
ten last spring calves at $40 each.
A Burr Oak man shipped a thousand
bushels of popcorn last week. 1t was
all raised by one man. The Burr Oak
dealer paid GO cents a bushel for it.
superintendent Frank Nelson has
the naming of three young men or wo-
men of Kansas for free scholarships in
the Methodist law school at Nashville
Tennessee.
An order has been sent out by the
telegraph management of the Santa
Fe closing the night offices in Olivet,
Lang, Lakeview, Peterton, Barclay
and Clare.
All the bridge inspectors of the Santa
Fe proper will be relieved from service.
Their work will henceforth be done
under the direction of the foremen OF
the bridge erecting gangs.
John Heustis and Nels Linden were
killed by an explosion of a locomotive
boiler in the Santa Fe round house in
in Topeka. Three others were injured
of whom j. L. Beardsley may die
A gang of horse thieves has been
captured in Cowley county; supposea
to be same that have been guilty
of extensive horsestealing along and
each side the Kansas state line. Three
horses wers stolen in Wichita in one
night last week.
A proposition from w. G. Tucker, OF
Cincinnati, to establish a silverware
factory in Topeka was referred to the
committee on manufactures of the
Commercial Club. He said he would
give employment to 200 skilled work
men at first, and within five years
would have force of 900
A Kansas man, near the Nebraska
line is reported by the Red Cloud, Neb.,
Nation as having shipped a carload of
pop corn to Chicago for which he re-
ceived $3.50.
Eight miles from Wichita is the
Cartwright chapel. When the janitor
went to prepare the place for services
he found everything inside that could
be broken was broken. Carpet gone,
all the coal burned, stove ruined, lamps
smashed, altar and altar rail broken
up and burned. with marks of destruc-
ton everywhere.
Ed and Elmer Hopple, farmers OF
Rocks county, are under arrest for
wholesale stealing of merchandise,
lumber, etc They were caught by
tracking their wagon loaded from a
neighbours wheat bin.
The following resolution adopted at
the meeting of the county clerks, is
being generally discussed: Resolved,
That personal property should be as
sessed at actual cash value; that the