The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1900-08-31

Ellsworth county is seriously discus
sing the establishing of n county high
school.
The Union Pacific is putting down
gumbo ballast at the rate of half a
mile day.
A special train went from Topeka to
carry attendants at the funeral OF eX-
Senator ingalls,.
The lola Portland Cement company
pays out $4,000 to it's employees every
Saturday night.
A fresh raid on Topeka jointists on
the day before the Bryan notification,
broke up 40 of them.
Three persons were injured by runa-
ways among attendants at picnic IN
Nortonville last week.
John Erickson, of Sumner county
threshed 80 bushels of wheat to the
acre off of bottom land.
Chas. Roberts was arrested at WI
liamsburg charged with killing har-
vest hand in Western Kansas.
Two new threshing outfits were
burned in Mcpherson county last week
Eight stacks of wheat were burned
also.
A bank at La Crosse paid ont on
wheat checks in the first nine days OF
August S70,992; and the rush had only
begun there.
There were ,625 out of town people
taken into Topeka on August 30, by
the Santa Fe, Rock Island and Union
Pacific roads.
Mrs Henry Hewitt was found dead
in her bed at her home in Marshall
comfy. in which she and her husband
had resided for 40 years.
The Fort Scott log rolling was called
off by the executive committees on ac-
count OF failure to get rates from the
railroads which they wanted.
1t is said that 5000 people assembled
at Wetmore. from Nemaha, Brown and
Jackson counties, at the annual Modern
Woodmen logrollirg on August %.
At the soldiers reunion at Oswego
on September Governor Stanley will
present medals to the members of Co.
G, Twentieth Kansas, who live in that
vicinity.
If Hutchinson's new ordinance is
valid it will cost telegraph companies
about $500 year, the Bell Telephone
company $1,000 and the express com
panies 500 a year each.
Secretary Coburn told the National
Congress, assembled at
Colorado Springs. that Kafr corn, al
falfa and the soy bean must revolution
ize the agriculture of the semi-arid
plains.
Some OF the creameries are getting
out of butter to fill orders. The
shrinkage of the dairies on account of
continued dry and hot weather is the
cause. The weather, however, is i'm
proving.
The Frisco railroad has made ar
engagements to run special train to
Wichita from Columbus, Kansas, on
September 5, the date of the annual
logrolling of the Woodmen of the
World in that city.
Miss Bessy Capper, sister of Arthur
Capper, and Superintendent II. S.
Myers, of the public schools of Garnett,
are married. The bri lie has been a
teacher in the state deaf and dumb
school at Olathc. Rev. s. b. McGrew,
who united the brides parents 80 years
ago, officiated.
Senator Ingalls, held two life insur-
ance policies for $4,000 each. They
were fifteen payment policies which
were taken December %, 1855.
Prisoners in Western Kansas are too
smart to stay in jail it would seem.
Every few days officers in the eastern
part of the state are notified that pris-
oners have escaped.
According to the assessors returns
of Kansas Galena made the largest
gain in population. lola made the next
largest gain, 2,041, and Wichita the
next largest gain, 1,1s0.
Halls Summit suffered from two
fires, one in town burning general
store and agrocery store. Other build
ings were saved by hard work. The
other was a big barn outside of town
with its contents, including 1900 bu-
shells of corn.
Jas. Wallace, farmer across the
Missouri river from Leavenworth, was
killed by DIR. Arlington in a quarrel
over line fence. The doctor drove to
Leavenworth, but soon went back over
the river and took his little daughter
and skipped out.
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