The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1900-01-19

| was in session on Jan uary ~ anu lie
IN average of $4,000 a day is coming
into the state treasury these January
days.
81. K. Boyer, clerk in Kansas City
Kas.. was killed while handling an in
candcscent light.
The seventeenth annual session o.
the State Bar association is to be helt
on January 80 and 81.
A. b. Hill is under arrest at Yelling
ton charged with forging drafts ant
passing worthless checks.
The Abilene Commercial club is talk
ing about a government building, also
a wholesale grocery and cold storage
plant.
Farmers in many sections of Kansas
are husking corn and blowing at the
same time and this is the middle of JAN
uary.
The Rock Island and the Santa Fe
are both pressing the work OF supply
ing their cars with air-brakes and clto
matte couplers.
The grade out of Kiowa, Kansas, is
still an unknown quantity. Parties
making the grade fear that it will be
sold and not used.
Advice to those who want to get
ahead in the world, from the Marshall
county News: "Come to Marshall coun'
ty and raise corn"
The Lindsborg Record says it re.
ouires about $40 worth of seed anc
labor and three acres of land to harves,
ton of broom corn.
At Riceville, suburb Of Galena, II.
c. Hurd's livery barn burned, with !;
horses, buggies and harness. Lost
81, 500, insurance 5000.
Doniphan county furnished walnut
tree four feet two inches in diameter
that made 76s feet of lumber. The
tree was 100 years old.
Governor Stanley believes that wher
parents place their children in reform
schools they should be required to re-
linquish all claims upon them.
Silkwood, the California trotter, was
bred and raised in Shawnee county.
Silkwood's record was 2:07 when Gen
try, another Kansas trotter, beat it in
San Francisco, going mile in 2:O3.
President Edwin Locke and the ex-
ecutive committee of the Epworth
League have selected Topeka as the
place to have the first annual conven-
ton of that organization, on June 1921
next.
The state labor bureau says: "From
every laborer replying to our queries
sent out recently comes the same story
increased wages and increased OPP
portunity to find work. Not a single
complaint has yet been recorded"
Some of the Kansas -four arriving in
New York has peculiar odor. 1nves-
tigation showed that it comes from
wheat which had green weeds harvest
ed with it, which withered in the
bundles and the wheat had absorbed
their odor.
Within short time two miles OF
of stone country road will be built be-
tween Coffeyville and the Verdigris
river. The farmers living east of town
have agreed to build one mile if the
Coffeyville Commercial Club will build
the other mile.
At public sale in Harvey county
two-weeks old calves sold for $11,
spring calves brought $26 and cows S45.
Horses sold for good prices, a mare
bringing S97 and a gelding 500. Tho
sale was held at the farm of j. E. Brodo
in Richland township and the stock
was but little above the average.
The Belleville Telephone company
will connect CORTLAND with the rest OF
the towns of Republic county by tele-
phone about the first of April.
Alex McCord has been arrested near
Springfield, Kas., on warrant charg-
ing him with killing Austin Davis.
The murdered man was found in his
own pasture on Thursday night, with a
bullet hole through his head. The
killing is supposed to have been con-
nected with the county seat excitement
from 1887 to 1891, in Seward and Stew.
ems counties.
Robert Bradshaw, formerly of Tope.
ka, was shot and killed in saloon al
Phoenix, A. T. He got into a row
with another railroad man named Wal.
ter Z. Adams. He called Adams seal
and the latter killed him. Bradshaw
mother runs boarding house in Tope
ka.
The first ball of binding Irvine made
at the plant at the state penitentiary
has been placed with the Historical so
cietv. 1t weighs five hounds AMI con