The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1901-11-01

Brodie, the new governor of Arizona,
sas.
The Portland cement company has
struck another big gusher oil well AT
lola.
A Mcpherson county steer recently
slaughtered at Kansas City weighed
2,6lo pounds.
The short corn crop has served to fill
up the schools. The boys are not need
ed to husll corn.
Ed Riley, switchman at Frontenac,
was decapitated and mangled by the
switch engine.
Chancellor Snow is getting well of
his nervous disease and all Kansas is
rejoicing with him.
Mrs. George Hammer died suddenly
in a spring wagon while cnroute from
Leon to FL Dorado.
Six real estate sales were made at
Sabetha in one week for combined
consideration of $40, 400
a gas company has been chartered to
bore for gas at Fredonia and to supply
the city with light and heat.
The heaviest hog ever received at the
Denver stocllyards was a Kansas pro-
duct. 1t weighed $50 pounds.
Mrs. Allie Meyers, cashier of the
Katy eating station at Parsons, dropped
dead without moments warning.
The franchise of the Abilene water
works company has expired and the
city is proposing to buy the works.
The lola Cement Company shipped in
one day about a week ago, 3642 barrels
of cement; filing 25 cars of large ca
pacity.
f. Tyner, of IIiawatha owns COW
0 feet II inches long, feet inches
high, feet in girth, and weighing over
a ton.
The largest jack in Kansas is owned
by w. b. and NJ. Hawk. of Beattic.
1t is four years old and weighs 2,GlO
pounds
j. n. Parish, prominent stockman
of Pawnee county, Kas., is sued by his
brothers widow for S., 900 in breach
of promise case
The state board of charities has con-
tracted for 5 1000 bushels of Minnesota
potatoes with prices ranging from rs to
So cents bushel.
The Chanute Oil and Gas company
has struck gas flow of 5000, 900 feet
day. This is the seventh successive
strike on Gas Ridge in 60 days
Rev. Daniel Frantz and wife, of Fair.
view, Kansas, were killed at Cedarville,
Illinois, by being crushed by falling
tree, Three others were injured.
Business men of Wellington decided
to build frame tabernacle so by 100
feet for the revival meetings to be held
there The meetings viii begin No
vember 10.
More than twenty cattle have died at
Corning, Nemaha county, from black
tongue within week Corning is on
high prairie. The state sanitary
board is making investigations.
Miss Matte Simpson, daughter of
Ben Simpson, of Paola, the old politi
cal war horse, has been appointed to
a position as stenographer in the SUI
preme court cleIk's Office at Topeka
A Lawrence contractor, w. r. Stubs,
has a contract for work on the Santa
Fe extension in Oklahoma which will
require several hundred teams all next
summer. The work will commence as
soon as possible.
The Dold packing house at Wichita
is to be run by electrical power. The
contract calls for 10 electrical motors of
to IS horse power each, in the differ
ent departments. The electrical ma
chinery for the elevators is warranted
to give hosting capacity of three ons
100 feet per minute.
II. r. Brown, of Parsons. is dead at
the age of "a years. He is the Oldest of
the Elks, having joined the Elks a year
ago Until about week before his
death he was going about everywhere
attending to his business.
There is rumor in Rock Island
circles that 9O-mile cut off will be
built from Belleville through Salina to
Mcpherson to make connections with
the new Rock Island extension to Lib
eral This cut off would considerably
reduce the length of the through line
from Omaha to FL Paso.
The elevator in the canning factory
of Lawrence got away from a number
of girls who were descending and Miss
Daisy johnson, II years old, was killed.
The elevator weight fell.
Jack Downing, postmaster at Hays
City, and j. A. Patterson, postmaster
at Selden, are belligerent officials.
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