The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1901-04-19
Friends Unive rsity is to have an
electric light plant of its own.

July l.
The Santa Fe will expend about ST.
600, coo in building the new shops in
Topeka.
The Emporia Normal has received
the apparatus for its gymnasium. Its
cost is $1,000.
Louisburg complains of having more
counterfeit 25 cent pieces than can be
used handily.
Anderson county proposes to erect a
new court house in the center of the
city park at Garnett.
Miss NJ. L. Dolphin has again been
reelected superintendent of the city
schools of Leavenworth.
The case against Postmaster McEl-
fresh, of Usage City, is dismissed from
the United States court.
The creamery at Eslridge made %,
92O pounds of butter last year from
1,34s, 900 pounds of milk.
Lightning burned out number of
telegraph instruments west of Dodge
City on the night of April s.
Short change rogues are sometimes
caught One of them is in Jail at Os-
wego on so days sentence.
The retiring chief of police of WIGHT
ia reports that during the past year
his force made 2,21l arrests.
A contract has been let for theatre
and dance hall in Coffeyville. The
building will seat 500 people.
A reunion of the Twentieth Kansas
is arranged for, to be held in Forest
Park. Ottawa, on September 3-5.
OConnell Bros, of Manchester, Eng
land, want contract for the product
of several Kansas butter factories.
Colonel A. b. Hedrick, Chanute
lumber dealer, committed suicide be-
cause of dependency over i'll health.
The Kansas penitentiary announces
the price on binding Irvine sold to
farmers . cents pound lower than
last year.
The Santa Fe railroad y. NJ. C. A.
building in Topeka is considerably
damaged by fire. The loss is estimated
at So, 500.
r. w. Dockstader, of CawlSer City,
and Miss Gertrude Rogers, of Beloit,
are married. There is nothing re-
markable in this statement until an
other fact is added. The grooms we'd
ing gift to the bride was 5000
r. II. and AL Brown, of Manhattan,
designed and built gasoline launch
40 feet in length and 0 feet wide. 1t
will carry about 20 persons and will
ply between Manhattan and Dipping
Springs, about 8 miles up the Blue
river.
The mill recently burned at Sedg-
wick is to be replaced by a better one.
The insurance was adjusted in fifteen
minutes after the insurance men ar
rived Then stock company COM
menced to gather funds for an up-to-
date mill.
The problem of securing enough
harvest hands this season is already
being discussed, commencing as usual
with demands for cut rates by the
railroads. Has anybody stopped his
think works long enough to consider
how much every interest leans on the
railroads.
Professor Williams of Friends uni
versity has perfected his apparatus for
wireless telegraphy. Its character
differs from that of all others. With
it he has succeeded in transmitting
through two of the stone
walls of the university and for a dis
lance of IS feet. His apparatus is
portable and will be used in lecture
work by the professor.
Kansas will this year expend $780,,
500 on fourteen of its public buildings.
This means work for an army of me-
chanics.
Governor Stanley, while returning
home from banquet given by the
Kansas City, Kas., Commercial club,
had his thumb badly pinched by the
of car door.
Mr.. Grau, of Mitchell county, who
carried off numerous prizes on his
Merino sheep at the trans-Mississippi
at Omaha, is preparing to
exhibit his sheep at Buffalo.
John w. Breidenthal has taken
charter for state bank at Altamont,
county. He is also organizing
a trust company to handle cattle paper.
Oil has been found on Cow Creek in
Rice county. In attempting to dig
wells for stock water, the water when
found, was so covered with oil as to be
unfit for use.
Colonel John c. Carpenter, of Chan
ute, said to a reporter that he had
been offered the place of pension COM
missioner by President Mckinley and