The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1900-12-07

According to new directory Salina
has 4,392 persons over II years old.
A beggar was arrested in Ell Dorado
who had $40 in cash in his clothes.
The Southwestern Teachers associa-
ton meets this week in Dodge City.
Larned is to have new business
block erected by local men of means.
Conway Springs, which has apopula-
ton Of over thousand, has no lawyer.
The State fish commissioner recon-
mended the establishment of state
fish hatchery.
Coffeyville is to have another big
vitrified brick plant, with a capacity OF
100000 brick a day.
More corn and wheat is being mar
keted in Cherryvale than has been done
before in fifteen years.
N. P. Jackson, of Hope, is the proud
father of another son. He is 70 years
old and has many grandchildren.
The Continental Creamery Company,
known as the creamery trust, is build
ing $40, 900 creamery plant in Tope-
ka.
Kansas holds third place among coal
| producing states west of the Mississip-
pi river, and second in the western
field.
Samuel Gahagan, blind and aged Oh,
died at Atchison recently. He lived
on the site of Quincy, Illinois, before
that town was laid out.
Paul Stoutemeyr, who has been in
the Wichita local Office of the Frisco,
has been appointed chief stenographer
for Supt. Quinn at Monett.
The auxiliary Of the Union Veterans
Union of Wichita, provided meals for
the veterans in attendance upon the
annual meeting of the veterans.
Superintendent A. T. Abbott, of the
Rock Island, at Herington, is to marry
Carnival Queen Mayme Mahaney, of
the Office of the Dold Packing Company
in Wichita shortly.
The attorney for the prosecution
says that the suit against State Treas
urer Grimes, brought just prior to the
election, will be dismissed before the
time set for the trial in Usage coun-
ty.
Attorney General GODDARD says that
during his term of Office, up to the date
of his report 1850 pages of letters have
been sent out from his Office in reply to
queries of legal nature, and that the
court work during the term has been
much heavier than usual.
s. O. Spencer, state oil inspector,
thinks that the enactment of a law
creating the office of state fire marshal
would greatly reduce the number of
fires from incendiary causes in the
state. 1t is said that the insur-
ance companies approve Mr.. Spencer's
idea and will help to press it upon the
legislature.
Colonel Henry M. Green, a Lawrence
pioneer, is dead. He came to Lawrence
in 1857 and that city has been his home
ever since. He was severely wounded
at the time of Shelby's raid on West
port, being then lieutenant colonel in
the Kansas militia Colonel Green
was one of the founders of Lane Uni
versity at Lecompton and was its first
president.
Wichita is division headquarters for
the Kansas Union Veterans Union
with A. j. Weaver at the head as ma ior
general. The annual session of the
Union was held in Wichita last week.
The seven regiments represented are
located at Topeka, Kansas City, Kan,
Emporia and Wichita. The union
adopted resolutions calling upon the
president to get rid of Pension Commits
sioner Evans.
Richard Kruger, deputy sheriff of
Cowley county, who says he is nephew
of Dom Paul Kruger, married Novem-
Der 20, Mary Hardzag, of Winfield.
The Holiday Monument association
will ask the legislature to allow the
statue to be placed on the state house
lawn directly opposite to the Santa Fe
office building.
There are PIT inmates of the Hutch
inson reformatory, an increase of 80
over two years ago. During the past
two years 1874 were received and 2O7
were paroled.
Pratt and Ellis counties failed to
send in election returns to the state
board of canvassers and messengers
were sent out after them.
The Merchants hotel in. Mcpherson
was burned November &c. A bargain
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