The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1900-04-27

strap, in his barn near Aida.
s. w. Hough and his wife, of Column
bus, were poisoned by canned corn.
The Fifth district w. C. Il. U. met in
annual session at Abilene last week.
Shoughnassee, the famous Pottawat-
omie chief, is dead. He was 30 years
old.
The Kansas state Sunday school con-
vention will be held in Atchison, May
to 10.
There are sixty-two women in the
graduating class of Kansas University
this year.
Some Kingman county farmers held
meeting and decided to establish a
creamery
Len Granville, of Hutchinson has
fallen heir to valuable estate near
Utica, N. Y.
Secretary Barnes of the state horti-
cultural society says that fruit pros
poets are good.
During March the Kansas peniten
tiary received 81 convicts and only 27
were discharged.
Montgomery county has more money
on hand than the law allows to be de-
posted in banks.
There were seventy-one volunteers
for the Spanish war who were Kansas
University men.
Labor Commissioner Lee johnson is
who fail to observe the eight hour labor
law.
James Harris, now one of the literary
lions of London, in 1873 took special
course in oratory and literature in
Kansas University.
The output of berries in Doniphan
county is big item in the production
and this year berry growers report the
right kind of prospects.
Robbers tried to blow up the Mis-
souri, Pacific safe at FL Dorado, but
failed. They then cut open and rifed
the mail sacks in the depot.
At Miltonville two of the Heald boys
married two of the Comfort sisters, and
at the same time two of the Comfort
boys married two of the Head sisters.
The waterworks system owned by
the city of Coffeyville cleared s1,075.59
from January / to April /. The receipts
were So, 100 and the expenses about
81 900.
George IIelwig, an old resident of
Labette county, died and the coroner's
jury said his death was from arsenic
The evidence is kept Sc.
cret.
The officers of the Leavenworth Light
& Heating company have information
of fraudulent issue of 140 bonds for
81 900 each, now. in circulation and
offered for sale in Chicago.
H. L. McNurney and Ethel Bacon, of
Butler county, were to be married, and
on the same day, while riding, the
horses ran away breaking the bride
groom's collar bone and bruising the
bride severely. They were married on
schedule time.
Frank w. Elliott of the Troy Times |
recently convicted of libel, was SEN
fenced to 1870 days in Jail and to pay
300 fine and costs. After being in Jail
Two hours he was liberated on an APP
peal bond on order of Judge Wells of
The appellate court.
f. IIaworth, professor of geology at
Kansas University, says he knows of
1t least hundred assays of ore taken
rom different mines around Galena
md there has never been any trace of
yold and very slight indications of sill
yer found.
Governor Stanley has named Mrs. j.
<. Hudson of Topeka, and Mrs. ). r.
Peters of Newton, to be members of
he women's board of managers of the
Pan-American exposition to be held in
Buffalo, N. Y, from May to Novem.
Der /. 1901.
VIM. Reynolds came to Stafford coun-
" twenty years ago with but little
.apital. He is now building a fine res
dence in st. John, besides which he
,wns several farms.
The board of regents of the state
formal elected officers as follows: +.
J. Laribee. of Stafford, preside c. A.
Ross, Burr Oak, vice president; S. II.
Dodge. Beloit. treasurer; John Madden,
A contract for the erection
# gymnasium was given at Sits.
An additional 50, 900 is to be expended
n equipment.
The Hoffmans of Enterprise. propose
o plant $4,000 catalpa trees in the
smoky Hill bottoms. They will plant