The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1901-12-20

John Guthrie has been re-appointed
! postmaster at Topeka.
1t is proposed to create the office OF
city auditor for Topeka.
The smelter at Argentine is To be shut
down permanently on February l.
Franklin county has commenced
preparations for fair next year.
A contract has been let for county
high school for Norton county, for Sl2,-
600.
Barton county Jail at Great Bend has
leaked prisoners four times within four
month.
The keystone -four mill at Sterling
burned on December 4. Loss about
$500
Henry Heitfelt, U S. Senator from
Idaho, lived at Seneca, Kas., for over
20 years
There were only 1877 cases OF small
pox in Kansas during November, two
of them fatal
Wellington has contracted for an ice
plant, to be ready to commence prodne-
ton on April L.
w. A. Johnston has just completed
his 18th year as associate justice of the
supreme court.
Syracuse has 90 charter members in
its commercial club, and expects to
triple the number.
The postoffice at Empire is diseon-
tinued and a sub-station of the Galena
postofiice takes its place.
There are 70 gas and oil producing
wells around Chanute and there are
10 drilling outfits at work.
The state association of comfy clerks
will hold its annual meeting i'll Hutch
inson during the holidays.
The Norton Golf club has purchased
40 acres adjoining the town for their
links. The price paid is So, 900.
The policemen's ball at Wichita
raised enough money to buy each man
regulation overcoat and then some.
Smith county is preparing to cele-
brate the day on which it will be thirty
years old. 1t occurs in February, 1902.
Shawnee county casts more votes
than the state of Nevada, which has
two senators and representative in
congress-
Jos. Smith, pioneer of Norton
county, crawled through wire fence
with his gun which was discharged,
killing him instantly.
The Wichita branch of the Santa Fe,
which extends west to Pratt, has been
changed from the Oklahoma division to
the Panhandle division.
Representative Fowler, of New Jer-
sey, lived in Beloit, Kansas, in the early
SOS. He is with Mr.. Calderhead, of
Kansas, on the committee of banking
and currency.
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took the responsibility of changing the
punctuation of the law concerning the
appeal to the supreme court of INSIDE
meanor cases, so that it would give the
right to appeal.
D. A. Valentine, clerk of the supreme
court, is calling the attention of law
yers to the necessity of their paging
and indexing records filed in the SUI
preme court and making the proper en-
dorsements on all papers presented.
Many lawyers now fail to do this.
Avery Turner is to go to the PecosJ
Valley division of the Santa Fe as its
superintendent, to succeed ID. ii.
Nichols, who comes to Arkansas City
to take the place of manager of the
Kansas Southwestern, which line, it is
said, will be operated independently in
the interest of the Santa Fe and of the
Frisco.
Kansas City packers secured most of
the contracts for meat for the state in
situations which were let by the state
board of charities.
Barney Lantry, head of the Lantry
company, whose latest contract with
the Santa Fe company is for an Ss,0Oo,-
900 job, worked as stone mason only
25 years ago, and his Oldest son Henry
was Santa Fe engineer for several
years. The Lantry company owns sew
eral hundred cars and ten locomotives,
and is putting in repair shops at Strong
City.
freight train on the Union Pacific
ran into an open switch at Grainfield
and the fireman and head brakeman
were injured. The engine and tender
were derailed and badly damaged.
Chas. L. Seagraves, travelling pas
senger agent for the Santa Fe, is ma
king collection of newspaper clippings
about the sugar beet situation in West
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