The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1901-09-13
Sterling takes pride in the 50, 900 SUR

300 feet has been found on farm near
Garnett.
At lola c, G. Staley's lo-year-old son
Lee was killed by lightning while go
ing to the pasture.
Political gossips say that Major I. j.
Anderson, of Topeka, is to be given
consulate in Germany.
Only nine bankruptcy cases have gone
to the courts in Kansas under the new
federal bankruptcy law.
A national convention of the blind
assembled IN Kansas City, Kansas, to
see each other, you know.
VIM. Brown, of Atchison. aged 81
fell in commissions as the result of eX
cessive cigarette smoking.
S. p. Woodson, Jr., the Caldwell
hotel keeper, raised 10000 bushels OF
wheat THE year on the side.
The Newton public schools opened
with an enrolment of 1,l93. of which
1872 were in the high school.
A man at Preston was on top of a
windmill tower and counted thirty
three steam threshers at work
| r. X. Thompson, of Dover, Shawnee
county, won three prizes on his Short
horn cattle at the Iowa state fair.
The Santa Fe will have damage suits
to defend. Emporia people who lost
two blocks of buildings will bring the
suit.
Old settler reunions have followed
the reunions of veterans and there has
been about as many of them in the
state.
There is Fort Scott girl in Paris,
Miss Essie Lee, who is called by the
Paris papers ''the most beautiful vio-
linist"
The attendance at all the veterans
reunions in the state was larger than
usual, with the exception of the state
reunion.
John Ii. Cram. Fort Scott attorney,
had a fight with James Burton, an ed
itor of that city. 1t arose from saloon
license disputes.
c. B. Combs, of Reading, married
Miss Rose Vickers, of Saltwater, Okla,
Immediately after she had filed on q
claim at Lawton.
Al ;,,tn
revised edition of the rules and regula-
tons for the government of the Kan
sas National Guard.
Mrs. Stansbury, of Coffeyville, has
sued the liquor sellers of the town for
$4,000 damages, alleging that they
made her husband drunkard.
The reunion of the Southwestern
Soldiers and Sailors association at Ar
kansas City brought $4,000 people to-
gether. Colonel Weldy conducted the
campfire.
Larkin Heron. whose home is at
Oxford, was playing as pitcher for the
Arkansas City Grays, when he fell dead.
1t is thought he burst blood vessel
while sliding to base.
ID. r. Gordon. of Dickinson county,
offered 25-acre field for $40 an acre.
He raised alfalfa on the land and took
two cuttings of hay and one seed crop
from it, the whole bringing So an acre
or $40 an acre after paying all expenses.
There will be still another light hay
crop
Bids were opened at the Indian office
in Washington for construction of five
cottages and domestic buildings at the
Haskell institute, Kansas The bidders
were: Ernest H. Schneider, Lawrence,
for cottages, 81, 500; domestic building,
S25 200; w. L. Leis, of Lawrence, for
domestic building, S23,474: if extra
story is built 81, 1875 additional.
Eleven members of the Twentieth
Kansas are now officers in the regular
army, and thirty-fve others are serving
as privates or non-commissioned officers.
There are IA of the regiment holding
some kind of official positions in Kansas.
About so Munsee Indians who live
near Ottawa, are to receive $500 each in
lieu of land offered to them by the gov
eminent in 1888, when the tribal home
was in New York Such of the tribe
as did not then take the offer, or their
descendants, are now entitled to $500
each.
AP. Ravens, member of a lumber
firm with many yards, dropped dead at
Minneapolis. Kas. He was an early
settler and a veteran of the civil war.
Train crews of the Missouri Pacific
have been overworked of late and at
Garnett one of them turned a switch
while in a state of somnambulism which
wrecked two engines and hurt a fire
man.
| Charles Wolff, the Topeka packer,
has received two letters after the style
of those sent to Cudahy, Omaha. Guess
Charley is little scared