The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1901-11-22

The hole bored for gas at Abilene at
| the depth of ,9GO feet, now overflows
salt water 20 per cent strong.
1t would seem that some OF the farm
crs of the southern counties are pastur-
ing their wheat too heavily
Contracts for supplies for the state
charitable institutions will be let, at
Topeka, on December and TO-
A well at Chanute is said to be giving
from the bowels of the earth 5000, 600
cubic feet of gas every "a hours.
The Southern Kansas and Oklahoma
Implement Dealers association is to
meet at Wichita on December and 5.
Three privates of the Fort Riley gar
rison went to Jail at Junction City,
charged with stealing S39 from farm
,cr.
Dispatches from Anthony get pub
lished which indicate that the Orient is
rather slow in its operations in that
vicinity.
The city marshal of Havensville has
been arrested for striking boys who re-
fused to obey his order to go home ON
Halloween.
A. c. Emmons, mineralogy expert,
has been detailed by the interior de-
partment to inspect the Trego- Ellis
gold fields.
1t is believed in official circles that
fully - per cent of the ballots east at
the late election were rejected on ac-
count of errors.
Coffevville has fire alarm which is
a piece of pipe with a whistle at the
top, while the other end is connected
with a gas well.
Contract has been let to rebuild the
burned NJ. L. church at Emporia. The
contractor gets SIG, 0C0 and the salvage
of material in the burned building.
1t was Twentieth Kansas man who
captured Thompson, the half-breed
leader of the escaped convicts. Dudley
Keefer, of Council Grove, was the man.
Colonel 7. w. Harrison is to be given
a big reception at Topeka on November
%. He is the highest Mason in Kan
sas. Invitations are sent out to Scot
fish Rite Masons all over the state.
f. R. Nichols and j. T. Willard, of
Manhattan, Kas., are in Washington
to attend the annual meeting of the
Association of American Agricultural
College and Experiment Station.
Luther Dicllerson preempted naked |
prairie land in Atchison county in 1854.
He lately cut $50 cords of wood off three
acres of it. lie now has 900 cords of
wood on 100 acres which was formerly
prairie.
DR.. w. II. Hudson, of Atchison, has
given a good start to a free school for
negro men and women. The school
already has % pupils, but it is such a
success that a permanent institution
will be established.
The executive committee of the Y. NJ.
c. A. of Kansas elected as officers for
the year, President, j. e. Nissley; vice
president, Sumner Whitson; treasurer,
Thomas Page; secretary, G. II. Ander-
son; state secretary, Andrew Baird, re-
elected.
Prof Lentz, of Kansas Agricultural
college, finds that there are 6S counties
Of Kansas which have prairie dog
towns, ranging in acreage from half an
acre each in Cowley and Douglas to 6s,-
500 acres in Wallace. The number of
acres in all these 6S counties is estimat-
ed at l. 24, s541l which are given pp to
the dogs.
j. w. Weatherford, the Eureka tele-
graph operator, has been sentenced to
one year and four months imprison-
ment for robbing mail sacks. Denning,
who was charged jointly, was acquitted.
Thos. Denning was found guilty but
will appeal
Members of the &. A. r. are asked to
give 10 cents each for a monument to
be placed at the Bickerdyke home at
The departments command
err and committee of the G. A. r. and
w. r. c. escorted the body of Mother
to Illinois for burial.
An aged negress of Coffeyville has
paid SIPS for a city lot making her pay
ment all in half dollars; each of them
a days washing, and to-
gether were the boarding of years.
James L. King, of the Kansas state
library, is writing book descriptive of /
old Mexico 1t will be issued by the
Rock Island passenger department.
Mr.. King has spent time in Mexico in
gathering material for his work, and
most everybody knows that his selec-
ton for the writing of this book is the
best that could have been made.
The Southwestern Kansas Teachers
will meet at Arkansas City +
on November 1890. Between 400 and