The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1901-07-19


fire guards sAong all the lines In the
wheat belt.
Colonel Il. C. Little, OF the Kansas
Twentieth, has been given a pension
of $40 n month.
The Dold packing plant at Wichita
has been incorporated with million
dollar capital.
The wagon trade for truck market
ing at Atchison is suspended for lack
of local supply
A good rain covered several counties
in the corn belt in the northern part
of the state on July 3.
A pearl declared to be worth $500 or
$500 has been found in the Marmaton
river near Fort Scott.
The commissioners of Atchson coun.
ty want "tax ferret" and are asking
for bids from experts.
In case from Russell county the
supreme court decides that a barber is
q professional man.
The state forestry farm at Ogallah
has been run over by fire which
nearly wiped it all mp.
One squadron of the 18th cavalry is
to leave Fort Leavenworth to go to the
department of Colorado.
A drug store, barber shop and har-
ness shop at Richmond burned, with a
total loes of about IS, 900.
The water pressure failed to supply
water to the top story of the Santa Fe
general offices in Topeka.
A 13-year-old boy of Fort Scott died
of loclsjaw produced by wound on
his hand while firing toy pistol.
A Touring mill and an ice house at
Blue Mond left terra frma for the
clouds in the same column of smoke.
Samuel A. Deel, of Baldwin, has
been appointed a magnetic observer in
the coast survey Office in Washington.
A tourist sleeper filled with Epworth
Leaguers left ottawa to attend the
national convention at San Francisco.
The acreage of alfalfa in Kansas is
greater than that of any tame grass,
and this crop never fails from drouth.
OF the first $4,000 bushels of wheat
bought by the Enterprise mills there
was none that tested less than 60
pounds
Sheffield ingalls,, the youngest son
of j. j. Ingalls,, is candidate for
member of the next legislature from
the country district of Atchison coun-
ty.
A gasoline tank used to initiate q
balloon in Forest Park, at Atchison,
caused 20 acres of the park to burned
over, together with fifty-acre wheat
field.
Miss Rosa Preston, of Fort Scott,
has been awarded years scholarship
in the Chicago university valued ut
Sl20. There were about / 900 contest
ants.
Mrs Ida S. Martin, widow of Editor
Governor John A. Martin. is matron of
Chalcton cottage at Ottawa university.
The cottage is occupied by girl stu
dents.
An Atchison county farmer was
offered 81, 100 for So head of heifers and
calves, and, four weeks later, tried to
get half that amount for them and
could not. Hot weather.
Wyatt Stanley last spring bought
the Treadwell ranch in Kingman coun.
ty for 100000, the 1000 acres of grow
ing wheat on it being thrown in He
harvested the grain to the value $685.
900.
The walls of the state library and
of the Office of State Superintendent
Nelson, were damaged 81 900 by the
carelessness of some one in leaving a
water faucet running all night in a
room on the floor above.
The state school fund has 5000, 900 to
invest and the board finds difficulty
to secure desirable bonds as private
investors offer premiums.
The old court house at Cimarron is
pulled down and while razing it
bushel of cartridges were found in a
hiding place.
Work on new mill in Wichita is
stopped at the point where carload
of maple flooring was to be used. The
car was to have started from Chicago
on June 10 but the railroad company
cannot find it.
In sixteen years nearly all the Off.
Gals at the Leavenworth Soldiers
home have come from Fort Scott.
The state board of charities, since
the supreme court decision, finds no
further hindrance to the locating of
the site of the new insane asylum at
Parsons and will commence building
onerat;ona