The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1901-03-29

OF law.
Contracts have been let for the com
pletion of the second floor of the state
capitol.
Both the wet" and the dry" can
didates for mayor of Wellington are
millers.
AS usual Southern Kansas has had
its winter in the autumn and in the
spring.
The Cudahy Packing company is kill
ing an average of 500 hogs a day at
Wichita.
The registration at Wichita counted
up 10, 1897, of which number 4,04l were
women.
Governor Stanley expects to attend
the Y. NJ. c. A. meeting in Guthrie on
March 81.
Farmers about Osborne are organ
izing a new bank to do business In
that burg
A miller at Lincoln started car OF
flour to Belfast, Ireland, on st. Pat
rick's day.
Robberies are occurring in Emporia
more than ever before. The police fail
to find clues.
VIM. II. Schoonover, of Rice county,
a pioneer, fell dead while playing a
game of croquet.
Garden City has lost it's north side
school building. 1t was insured for
So, 900: one-half its cost.
A. V. Lindell, bond clerk in the
office of the state superintendent of
public instruction, has smallpox.
The 12th annual tournament of the
Kansas State Sportsmans association
will be held in Leavenworth April To-
Is.
Quarantine for sheep has been es-
tablished at Andale, where the scab
is reported to affiict sheep about to be
shipped.
John Moorhead, of Baldwin, was
not member of the legislature. John
tongue has not become
paralyzed.
II. F. Sidey, an Atchison dentist,
was fatally injured by railroad man
who was jealous over attentions paid
to his wife.
A chemist in the employ of the Orient
has been ex mining the soil and the
water along the line of that road from
Kiowa northward.
An egg dealer at COTS received an
order by wire for carload of eggs and
placed 400 cases in car at the depot
in less than half an hour.
Miss Mary Weir, an Oklahoma girl,
took first honors at the Wichita high
school, and will be the valedictorian at
the commencement exercises in May.
A religious census of Hiawatha shows
that out of 200 inhabitants more than
600 are in church work. There are
only thirty families in the town who
do not attend church.
Thousands of geese circled about
Abilene during the late blizzard, dash
ng into the electric lights. Sportsmen
xilled large number of them, staying
out in the storm until daylight TO shoot
he geese.
In five years the Episcopal church of
Kansas has reduced its Indebtedness
IN parishes and institutions from $780,
100 to SOS, 000 The value of it's prop
critics in the state is estimated at $780,
700. There have been $500 persons
in five years and 1900 con-
irmed. This covers the period of
Bishop Millspaugh's epscopate.
Charles Lease, of Wichita, is the pro-
noter of corporate scheme, to cost
dollar each, for the pur-
pose of sending men to our insular
possessions to investigate their indus
rial condition. A charter when asked
or was refused.
The snow storm Of March 10 covered
most of Kansas and extended over
Nebraska, Wisconsin, northern Mis-
,ouri, Minnesota and western Iowa,
south Dakota, northwest Michigan and
Wyoming. 1t amounted to blizzard
n some of these localities.
Chaplain Morehead, of the house of
representatives, whose home is in
Baldwin, is suffering with paralysis of
he tongue.
A. L. Jeune proposes to plant 1870
lcres of potatoes on his Greenwood
county farm, 100 acres of which are to
De early Ohios. He has bought two
of early Ohio seed.
The four-year-old son of A. G. Card,
If Wichita, emptied powder from pop
bottle into the fire. One eye was de-
troyed and it took 81 stitches to close
Up wounds made by pieces of glass.
Three women, followed by 100 men,