The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1901-10-25


in the number of farmers that have
telephones.
The S. Barnum Dry Goods company
of Topeka, has done an unchanged bust
ness on the same lots for 80 years.
w. j. Lucas, of Ottawa, Illinois, has
just bought the Tillinghast farm of ST.
acres near Clearwater for S2s, 900.
c.. J. Young, of Marquette, has sold
his last years crop and his crop of this
year of broom corn for $l20 ton.
Congressman w. A. Reeder, of the
Sixth district, asks the people to select
their postmasters by local elections.
Ten of the twenty-five Episcopal
churches in Kansas have been built
under Bishop Millspaugh's jurisdiction.
E. S. Holiday, new member of
congress from Indiana, served in the
civil war as II member of Kansas reg
iment.
Ewing Herbert's aged mother was
thrown from the carriage while riding
with her son in Hiawatha, ard severely
injured.
d. c. Hail. an Atchison county farmer,
has 10000 bushels of corn which has
been in his cribs twoy years. Heis holG-
it for 75c a bushe.
Somebody wonders whether the next
move of the doctors trust will not be
to make it crime for anybody to be
cured by an unregistered doctor.
Charles Gathers, 13-year-old Office
boy employed by the Charles Wolff
Packing Company, of Topeka, fell 40
feet through an elevator shaft and sus-
tanned fatal injuries.
Charles E. Gilmore has been appointed
by the Santa Fe management foreman
of the bridge, building and water SER
vice of the middle division with head
quarters at Newton.
Reuben Hamlin was pulling u spike
at siding, west of Hutchinson, while
standing with his back to a coming
train. He evidently did not hear the
tIain and was killed
Tom Lloyd, an Atchison, Topeka &;
Santa Fe fireman, who was injured at
Thatcher, Colorado, in 1898, and who
sued the company for $50, 900 damages.
was given verdict for $500 in the
Atchison district court. 1t was the
first trial of the case.
The reports of the state superinten-
dent show that 33 per cent of the popu-
lation of the state attend some kind of
schools: while the report of the nation
al commissioner of education shows
that only % per cent of the population
of the United States does SO.
1t is told Of a Rice county woman
who, after seeing her fool husband lose
SIS on a ''sure thing" game, walked up
to the takers table, and grabbing up
handful of his money, walked off with
~, bell4HS liilii SdS hCchCN ~ W NV VII
AS the crowd was on the woman's side
the faler had to look pleasant"
Kaw Valley potato growers made
good money from the high price re-
ceived from the one third crop they
raised this year. 1t is estimated that
they have received $3.50, 900 for their pc.
tatoes this year. One man planted
early in March and his crop reached
100 bushels to the acre. The late plant
ers missed the April rains and failed
to get crop.
A man calling himself Estate in.
surance adjuster of sewing Machines
claims to be an employee of the govern
ment, and that it is his duty to inspect
sewing machines. He found victims in
Leavenworth at the rate of a so cent
fee each. Is there really any use in a
man working for living when the
world is so full of fools willing to con-
tribute to his support?
The bank of Narka has been robbed
of 50 900. The safe was blown open.
The state bank commissioner says that
the loss is fully covered by insurance.
The Kicl1apoo reservation is having a
seige of smallpox and the towns Of
Brown county have put out guards to
prevent the Indians from coming to the
towns.
A house alongside a railroad track
near Atchison has sign on it which has
been there for &c years. 1t reads
This family has been wronged by the
railroad company"
The state board of charities is ar
ranging to purchase winters supply
of potatoes for the various institutions
in their charge. Seven thousand five
hundred bushels are required.
Edward Wagner, foreman of the gov
eminent book bindery in Manila, was
born in Topeka in 1869 and learned his