The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1901-05-10

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Falls will be reado for dedication Jun,
LIST
The ninth annual musical jubilee tc
be held in Hutchinson, is set for june
40.
A jury at Norton acquitted teacher
who was prosecuted for whipping q
pupil.
Buggy dealers everywhere report in
creased sales and most of them to farm
ers.
Mrs. VIM. Roth, of North ottawa,
was seriously burned by the explosion
Of lamp.
Robbers entered the grange store at
Edgerton and found nothing butpen-
MES in the till
Burglars blew open the safe in a
lumber yard office at Norwich and
found about SEQ.
James f. Legate, the veteran poll.
tcian of Leavenworth and of Kansas,
is almost blind.
A Wichita gardener has eight acres
of peas from which he has commenced
to take peas to market
Henry Munday, a switchman on the
Missouri Pacific, was crushed to death
between cars at Wichita.
The extent Of Webb McNalls wheat
field is reported at 400 acres for this
year; all in Smith county.
The superintendent of the high
schools of Kansas hold meeting at
Chapman to form a state organization.
Emporia reports over 100 new build
ings and additions going up, besides
its SIS, 900 court house and S35 900 IL
brary.
The Topeka city engineers report
shows the amount on improvements
and city work during the past year to
be 1879, 1898.
The electric line between Leaven-
worth and Kansas City has cut the
business of the two railroads which it
parallels fully one-half.
Atchison has man employed on it's
street paving who is deaf and dumb
and has lost both legs, yet makes
good living for his family.
Miss Alice A. Stebbins, of Atchison,
has been appointed pastors assistant
to DIR. N. d. Hills, in Henry Ward
Beecher's church in Brooklyn.
Independence has voted $4,000 for
two new 10 room school houses The
plan includes tearing down all of the
old school houses and selling one of
the sites.
There are 12j lumber yards within
The trade limits of Wichita which are
supplied with their stock by Wichita
umbermen. One firm sends out an
lverage of 200 cars month.
The board of managers of the state
soldiers home have taken charge of the
Mother Bickerdyke home at Ellsworth,
which will be used for aged and infirm
soldiers and their wives and for widows
If veterans
The postoffice of Ellinwood, which is
n the same room with a jewelry store,
vas robbed of SO of postoffice funds.
10 watches and much other jewelers.
stock. j. II. Anderson was arrested at
treat Bend on suspicion.
Bill Tackett, of Sumner county, who
las served several terms in the peni
and has been in Jail SO many |
lines that he cannot tell their number,
S now writing book to tell of such
If his misdeeds as he can bring to |
mind.
number of Harvey county Russian |
md German farmers are planning a
rip to the old country, to be gone six |
months.
Nathan Browning, who was sent to |
he penitentiary from Junction CITY.
vas paroled but did not behave him |
elf and now goes back to serve % |
months of his unfinished term.
Eureka has 300 cases of chickenpox:
'every has two cases of scarlet fever.
md Madison just out of smallpox quar-
milne has number of cases of chick.
npox. All in Greenwood county.
During the first four months of 1901 |
wo building permits were issued in
Topeka for buildings to cost over SO.
100; they will cost $1,000. For build |
ngs to cost less than $4,000 there
we're 1l6 permits issued which repre-
tint slO7, $50.
A crusade is on against the Jug trade |
rom Kansas City. Jugs are expressed |
o any name with directions to the re-
ewing express agent to deliver TO any |
me who will pay the c. o. D. bill and |
harges. A case from Usage City has
zen appealed to test the law.
David Nation, of Medicine Lodge.
vas visiting relatives at Marion, In /
llama, and while there visited a dog