The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1901-03-08
salina is to have a wholesale drug

A priest in Rush county has coilec-
tion of 5000 stamps.
Governor Stanley promptly signed
the liquor nuisance bill.
More than 100 bills were sent to the
governor in one day last week,
Every masked ball in Kansas now
has one or more Mrs. Nations.
Mrs. Nations trial in the district
court in Wichita is set for March s.
The total appropriation for the state
normal this year amounts to sl59'ooo'
Bank Commissioner Albaugh has
chose Sam1 Moore, of Lawrence as his
deputy.
4 The Mulvane state bank has three
times as great deposits as on January
1, 1900.
The women of Usage City are raising
money to spend on the three pubic
parks there
Wallace county stock growers have a
standing reward offered for the capture
of stock thieves.
a five days fair held by Concordia
Catholics made a net gain averaging
$500 for every day.
Corn that has been stored in Smith
Center for five years has just been sold
at 80 cents a bushel.
The Salina Union says that the city
of Salina collected SO. 500 from joint
keepers in months time.
The receipts of the Wichita postotiice
for February, 1901, were % per cent
greater than for February 1900.
The Eureka fire department enjoyed
a banquet SO well that it took fire
alarm at $50 u. m. to adjourn the af-
fair.
Upon her return from Peoria to To-
peka, Mrs Nation went directly to the
county Jail and delivered herself to the
sheriff Her bond was cancelled.
A gang of train robbers walked into
trap at Riley, and Frank Wharton
their supposed leader, was captured
and taken to the Jail at Manhattan.
George w. Tincher has cut 10000
posts from his catalpa grove two and
one-half miles west of Wilsey and ex-
poets to cut from 1000 to $4,000 next
season. .'.
The injuries received by Postmaster
Guthrie of Topeka, prove to be serious
His fall from a street car dislocated his
shoulder, burst an artery in his Shout
der and split piece of bone off his
shoulder blade.
According to a census completed in
Kansas 4G years ago in February the
territory had population of s,50l, of
which 1905 were voters. There were
4OS persons of foreign birth, 151 free
negroes and 1872 slaves.
Captain William Crozier, who has
been appointed to professorship at
West Point military academy, entered
West Point from Kansas and his home
has always been in Kansas. He is the
inventor of the disappearing gun car
riage. -
English parties owned 2,05s acres of
land in Sedgwick county and sold it
recently to a firm in Wyoming, who
have sold it to a Newton real estate
firm for s27, 900. Tney bought it on a
speculation and are selling it out in
single quarter sections.
J. Clark Baldwin, who was employed
in job printing Office in Wichita,
committed suicide, leaving as reason
his i'll health and the fear of becoming
insane. lie left directions for the pay
ment of certain bills and that his es-
tate. most of which he had but recently
come into possession of, should go to
his sister, who is a professional nurse
and is living at Larned.
I hcpTcSdHldOlNC bppSi SUM- VI pSobt'
has smallpox, and Representative Claw
son, of Cherokee, went home because
his family has smallpox.
Orlando c. TroXel, the son of Dick
inson county farmer, has just gradua-
ted from West Point and has been as
signed to an infantry regiment in the
Philippines.
Elijah Collins, of Highland station,
is dead at the age of &c. He was a
charter member of the first Masonic
lodge in Kansas. lie had lived in Kan
sas 40 years.
Both branches of the Legislature took
hall hour off just before the noon adj
iournment and held jollification over
Kansas getting first place at the st.
Paul Butter Makers meeting. The
$3.50 banner won there, was brought
by the Kansas delegation direct to To
pelSa.
AIGong the barrels which had Their
heads knocked in by the women Of
COTS were several barrels of pickles
1t is not yet settled which will cost the
I. 1;as the most per barrel. whisky OF