The Chanute times., 1901-04-26

A new hotel, in $1,000 building
has been opened at Hill City.
The Presbyterians of Hiawatha have
decided to build $40, 900 church.
Gas has been found on the grounds
of the insane asylum at Osawatomie
A company has been organized t.
manufacture voting machines in Tope
ka.
II is expected that local capital viii
soon furnish an electric light plant fol
Alma.
Inmates of the state reform school
are hereafter to make their own
clothes.
Another damage suit has been
brought against the. Winfield saloon
raiders.
Jesse Reed, editor of the Oxford Reg
lister, died suddenly at Wellington on
April 16.
Miles Taylor, Of Hutchinson, is to
be secretary to Senator Gibson, OF
Montana
The aphis, or wheat louise, has ap-
peared in the Chikaskia valley in Sum-
ner county.
Sheriff Simons. of Sedgwick county
has sold his 100 acre farm on the Little
Arkansas river for Sc, 400.
An Odd Fellows lodge has been or
ganized in Laliin. This is the sixth
secret society in the town.
Geo. B. Landers, wealthy cattle
man and banker of Anthony, died at
the Osawatomie insane asylum.
The Central Kansas Agricultural
Fair and Livestock association has
been organized at Hutchinson.
Governor Stanley expects to meet
the presidential party at the Colorado
line and escort it through Kansas.
The central school building in Usage
City is to be enlarged and improved
this summer to the amount of SO, ZOO.
Fire has destroyed $4,000 hard
ware and implement store and stock at
Beloit, and did damage in lumber
yard.
Many eastern Kansas lands who al
lowed their property to be sold for
taxes are now endeavoring to clear
their titles.
The annual Christian church insti-
tute convened at Herington on April
II, with 65 ministers present from all
parts of the state.
Governor Stanley has appointed each
member of the tax commission dele
gate to the national tax conference to
be held at Buffalo on May %.
Mayor Pollock, of Arkansas City,
has ordered every dive" and "hole in
the wall" closed. He proposes to run
the city without revenue from joints.
The opening of the new auditorium
at Strong City occurred on April 1920.
The Modoc club and Marshalls band
from Topeka held leading parts in the
program.
The receipts of the local consstory
from initiation fees was $50, 400 The
banquet cost 81, 900 for 735 plates This
is told of the Scottish Rite centennial
jubilee in Wichita.
The state law department has re-
versed itself on the question of rural
registration. The opinion now given
out is that the law applies only to
Montgomery and Sumner counties.
DOC" Hudson has sold his preemp-
ton claim near Potter, Atchison coun-
ty, at $65 an acre. Not long ago he
divided S25, 900 among his three chill
dren. He made his money in cattle
farming.
The Sisters of st. Joseph have pur-
chased the Hill mansion in Fort Scott
for the establishing of a convent and
boarding school for girls.
A final dividend has been made to
the depositors of the Cross bank at En-
poria. 1t is for Is per cent and it is
made from the proceeds of the sale of
Sunny Slope cattle, which realized
$500 The dividends have amounted
to 65 per cent, leaving loss to deposi-
tors of S175,0 900. In the settlement all
capital and all liability of stockholders
were wiped out.
Mrs. Ida Eckert, the poetess who
will read poem at the launching of
the battlesh!p, Ohio, was formerly of
Kansas, living in Topeka.
A sod house near Hill City. fell in as
the result of heavy rains, killing Mrs.
Hostutler and a child, and breaking
Mr.. Hostutler's arm. One child was
uninjured.
State Superintendent Nelson has a
heavy task. The law requires him to
sign all the common school diplomas
in the state, ranging from $50 or more
down, to the county.
John Lyster, a fireman on a train