The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1901-04-05
Fort Scott is to have new jail.


school for truants
Holton registered 1883 voters, about
one-third of them women.
The new auditorium at Strong City
is to be opend on April 10 and 20.
o. e. Learnard, jr., has been ap'
pointed city Judge at Lawrance.
Steel rails have arrived for the new
street car lines ut Junction City.
Up to the 25th of March there had
been 36,headers sold at Ellinwood.
There was picnic set to come off Ia
the last week in March at Goodland.
Parsons is flirting with people who
may be induced to give her electric car
lines.
Ten thousand pounds of fresh meat
goes weekly to Fort Riley from Kansas
City.
Bishop Walden, of the NJ. f. church,
was one of the pioneer preachers OF
Kansas.
The registration at Junction City
was 2,257, of which there were LOGS
women.
NJ. A. Low is said to be promoting n
scheme to hold state fair in Topeka
this year.
The First NJ r. church of Winfield,
proposes to build $4,000 church of
Winfield stone,
Surveys are made to commence work
upon the new Santa Fe yards and de-
pot at Lawrence.
Salina expects to entertain 200 COM
mercial travellers at their annual meet
ing there in May.
Committees are at work in Kingman
county raising $4,000 for monument
to veterans buried there.
President Mckinley informed Repre-
sentative Charles Curtis that he will
stop in Topeka on his western trip.
Lieutenant Governor Richter is ask
ing for donation from Andrew Car
for library for the Kansas Medical
College.
Mrs. Margaret King, aged 1os, died
the other day at Eureka, at the home
of her granddaughter, Mrs. j. III. Kirk
patrick. Mrs. King was the mother of
10 children. One of her brothers lived
to be more than 100 years old.
The 18th annual conference of the
negro branch of the M. e. church in
Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Iowa and
Oklahoma, met at Fort Scott on March
% Over 100 ministers were present.
Bishop E. G. Andrews, of New York,
presided
The Fort Hays reservation will be
utilized for experiments by the Kansas
agricultural college; especially in find
ing ways to make grains and forage
plants resist drouths, and to find new
grains and forage that will do we'll on
the plains.
1t is all right for Kansas to get bit
crazy over General Funston's successes,
but it is silly to mix up politics in it by
again to talk about giving
him a high up Office outside the army.
The general would run away from that
as he did before.
The Masonic order of Bellville, Re-
public county, and the State Historical
society will unite in Fourth of July
celebration at the site of the Pawnee
village, when the corner stone of the
Zebulon Pike monument will be placed
on the spot where Pike hauled down
the Spanish flag and swung the Stars
and Stripes.
Two farmer boys were on their way
home from Lawrence when one shot
the other twice with revolver. The
wounds were not fatal though serious.
government inspector reports hav-
ing found 1T documents in one county
court house that were without the
stamps necessary to give them legal
A juror in Hamilton county has sued
the sheriff for damages for placing him
in cold, damp jury room, thereby in
hiring his health The ca Sc is appealed
to the supreme court.
Mrs. Hetty Sinex, of Peabody, whose
son died in San Francisco while on the
way to the Philippines has received
pension of sl2 month together with
s26l back pay. Young Sinex enlisted
in the army at the outbreak of the
Spanish war.
Mrs Mary E. Bradley is dead. She
started in the hotel business where
Salina afterwards grew up around her.
Her place was of logs with dirt roof.
Bayard Taylor described the place in
a letter to the New York Tribune when
he crossed the plains
George Evans, formerly a prosperous
at Topeka, is now in the
Soldiers home and in very poor health.
He has had several contracts in the
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