The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1900-02-16

w. c. Bauer, of Baldwin, has beel
appointed a magnetic observer in tn
coast survey Office.
r. c. johnson, breeder, three miles
south of Lawrence has herd of abou
1000 Angora goats.
The Henderson, Sewer company o
Wichita is awarded the contract to pu
in sewers at FL Reno.
Clyde is looking for the removal t.
that place of the Missouri Pacific
division from Greenleaf.
John Sheriff of Big Hill must stand
trial on the charge of mailing obscene
letters to his divorced wife.
A. J. Henry, formerly of Leaven
worth, will succeed Prof. Hazen a;
head of the signal service bureau.
A company has been formed in Brown
county to connect by telephone Hia-
watha, Reserve, Robinson and other
towns.
The second annual meeting of the
State Society of Labor and Industry
was held in Topeka, commencing Feb
ruary 5.
The management of the Santa Fe
will spend So, 100000 in improvements
this year; much of it for the reduction
of grades.
j. w. Clayton, engineer of mining
plant at Galena, was caught by the
betting and his skull fractured. Death
resulted.
The city superintendent at Ottawa
says that no cigarette smoker gets into
the high school; they drop out before
they reach it.
The miners are trying to GUST Edward
Keegan, state mine inspector. They
say he is on too friendly terms with
the operators
Alex Hurd, of Drum Creek has just
shipped to New York carload of wal
nut logs. This occurs frequently from
many Kansas places.
Ex-Governor Morrill,, who was COM
PEELED to spend several weeks at Hot
Springs, Ark, last year for his health,
is sick again, and will go back to the
springs as soon as he can stand the trip.
n IVooJo,1 +bo S,r+o E'a citation
agent at Dalton, who was acquitted in
Justices court in Wellington of the
charge of criminal assault, was tried
at Dalton before a committee of the
NJ. Z. church on charge of immortality
and convicted.
During the first nine months of the
operation of the law providing for
the renting of school lands, the sum of
SC, 1926. 90 was collected in rentals and
turned into the state treasury This
money goes into the school fund to be
distributed among the schools of Kan
sas.
In Kansas there are six kinds of Adj
ventists, thirteen of Baptists, seventeen
of Methodists, twelve of Presbyterians,
three kinds of River Brethren, and
four of Plymouth Brethren, six kinds
of communistic religious societies, and
four kinds of Dunlxards. The Friends
are of four different sorts, and the
of twelve
"All the experiments made with
sorghum by the government have been
made in Kansas" writes Secretary
Wilson. 1.-The sorghum seed intended
for distribution by the various con-
gressmen is raised on Miss Best's farm
at Medicine Lodge, in Kansas, and the
government is not expanding a single
cent in any other state.
Emma Johnson, of Galena, took |
poison and died. She had been quar-
reling with her lover. She was sixteen
years old.
The Wichita Carnival and Fall Festi-
val association have invited the people |
Of Kansas and Oklahoma to submit |
designs for souvenir button for the |
Street Fair and Carnival in October |
next.
Len Cooper is at the Leavenworth |
federal penitentiary from Oklahoma.
His parents travelled there in a wagon
to make him visit.
Colonel E. n. o. Clough, of Leaven-
worth is dead. He was 20 years old. |
He was veteran of the Mexican war
and of the civil war.
A six foot vein of coal has been found |
in Barton county at the depth of $50
feet A company is engaged in obtain
coal leases and propose to sink shaft
in a short time. The quality of the
coal is good.
Ringing Bros have leased the build
ings of the Burton car works in Wich-
tia and will fit them for permanent
winter quarters for their circus.
Mrs Laura Ramsey, an aged widow,
at Sabetha, was murdered in her home.
There have been no arrests. The
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