The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1900-12-21

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annual taxes in Saline county.
DR.. L. G. Mum, has been made state
bacteriologist by the state board Of
health.
B. f. Reiber, of Kincaid, has harvest.
ed 20 bushels of peanuts from one-fifth
of an acre.
1t is figured out that the relief sent
from Kansas 10 India saved the lives
of $4,000 people.
Albert Strong, from Winterset, Iowa,
has bought and will conduct the EN-
poria Republican.
Company d, First regiment, Kansas
National Guard, has been been mus
tered in at Chanute.
Judge e. II. Madison, of Dodge City,
married Miss Lou Vance, of Oklahoma
City on December 10.
Randolph, Riley county, is striving
to secure the location of the Mission
Church college at that place.
Gold, it is said, has been discovered
in the bluffs near Lindsborg. A COM
pany has been formed to develop it.
A negro was elected justice of the
peace in Larned township, Pawnee
county. He has fulfilled his duties
thus far, satisfactorily.
Miss Bertha Yarnell is deputy regis
ter of deeds in Anderson county. Her
predecessor, also, was woman, who
resigned to be married.
State Grain Inspector McKenzie's re-
port for November shows So, 537. 10 col
lection of fees, at an expense of ST.
$50. 70, leaving balance of $153,40.
When the canyons erect their pro-
posed additional smelter in lola they
they will reach the position of being
the largest zinc producers in the world.
A. A. Crandall, a Rice county farmer,
exhibited four-year-old Durham steer
in Kansas City, which is six feet and
six inches tall and weighs J, 700 pounds.
There are railroads running in nine
directions out of Topeka. When Wich-
tia gets the Orient it will have railroads
leaving the place in dozen difereat
directions
There are thirteen rural delivery
routes now established in Shawnee
county, which with two or three more
to be established, will cover the whole
county.
A ten-year-old boy tried to jump on
moving train at Cherokee and lost
both of his legs. He said to the doctor,
"Say Doc, 1 won't have to go to school
now, will l."
The judges of the probate courts of
Kansas will hold a meeting in Topeka
December %. The object is the form
ing of an association and to discuss
needed legislation.
Senator Tapp from Sedgwick county
is preparing bill to provide for the
examination of telegraphers, under
which they must obtain licenses before
they can do railroad work.
James E. Cole, of Alma, and Andrew
Lang, of Topeka, propose to establish
an automobile factory in Topeka.
They have patented an oil-propelling
auto which they claim can be put on
the market for $3.50.
Rev. and Mrs. John NJ. Rankin, of
Burlington celebrated their golden
wedding on December 10. They have
lived at Burlington about 40 years,
where Mr.. Rankin was for many years
rector of the Episcopal church.
Miss Olive Jones, the 19-year-old
daughter of "Buffalo JONES'" of Tope-
la, has sold a story to Harper's for
$3.50. 1t tells of the capture of two
mountain sheep in Colorado and Miss
Jones was with her father on the
trip.
If the recommendations of the State
Live Stock Sanitary board are followed
out by the legislature detectives will be
stationed along the southern border Of
the state to detect the smuggling of
Texas fever infected cattle across the
border into the state.
George C. Sperry, who for the past
six years has been superintendent of
telegraph on the Mexican Central rail-
way, has resigned his position and re-
turned to Topeka. Mr.. Sperry was
for a long time assistant superinteh-
dent of telegraph on the Santa Fe road.
People of Independence and other
towns in the gas belt will ask the legis-
lature to prohibit the piping of gas out
of the state. They take the lesson
from the experience OF Indiana gas
users.
A dude stranger succeeded in getting
an invitation to a swell party in Atchi-
SON then cashed a connie of worthless