The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1901-11-08

StreeuS ana Of miles Oh paved dileyS.
C. f. Weber, who owns many eleva-
tor, has purchased home for himself
in Wichita.
The Moherman Angora got ranch at
Wellsville has sold five hundred goats
this season.
Kansas officials defy the law which
prohibits outsiders from hunting in In
dian Territory.
A grading gang commenced work at
Westville on the line of the Ozark 81
Cherokee railway.
A Second wooden mill at Topeka is
completed and starts to work this week
with 1875 operatives.
Dr. J. d. Drake, of Tennessee, has
been elected president CT the Lane uni
versity at Lecompton.
An eight-year old apple tree in Wood
son county yielded thirteen bushels of
apples to the pickers.
On November 10, II and Il Bethany
college at Lindsborg will celebrate its
twentieth anniversary.
A large stand pipe is to be erected at
the insane asylum, at Topeka, as a
protection against fire.
Andrew Linn, of Osborne county, says
he raised ~ tons of beets on ~
square rods of land this year.
Last year the money collected from
fire insurance companies for the fire
mans relief fund amounted to SOS, 900.
The Santa Fe dispatchers and the
trainmaster, now at Newton, are ex-
pecting to be moved to Dodge City very
soon.
The Rev. II. f. Mills, Congregation
alist pastor at Fort Scott and his wife,
have volunteered as missionaries in
India.
Congressman Charles Curtis grand
mother is "a years old. She lived where
Topeka now is generation before To-
peka was.
ii. c. Chain, 60 years old, who has
lived on the same farm near Huron for
35 years, committed suicide on account
failing health.
Leavenworth's new library building
is to be dedicated about the first of the
year New books to the value of s., 500
will be ready at that time.
1t was announced that Senator Bur-
ton was to have the naming of Baptist
in the army and applications
and endorsements weighted the mails
received by him.
There is trouble in the Kansas de-
partment of the G. A. r. between Com
mander Norton and his two subordi-
mates, the Adjutant General and the
Quartermaster General.
An Iowa man has bought eleven acres
for $25, 200, upon which he intends to
construct brick plant There is an
abundant supply of shale under the
land. |
Miss Coles stenographer of Topeka,
was attacked by a negro while going
home. Her screams attracted neighbors
and the negro fled. A black iend has
been arrested and is held to await Miss |
Coles recovery from the nervous shock
so as to be able to identify him.
Frank Decker, Brown county farm
Ell, has four acres in alfalfa, some of il |
sowed two years ago and some of it last |
year. He has cut II tons of hay worth |
s5 ton, in three cuttings He threshed |
one cutting and got 40 bushels of seed
worth Sc bushel, making, with the
hay, an income of S343 off four acres of |
land. He expects to cut fourth crop |
Of hay from which he expects tvs or
three tons.
st. Paul, Neosho county, now has
strong flow of gas and preparations are
being made to supply the city with
gas.
A fire at Burlington destroyed doc
tors office, grocery store and the
Courier printing Office. A jewelry store
and a millinery establishment were in
jured by water.
A Topeka township justice of the |
peace has been arrested in a poker |
game in the city. 1t was Disney who |
has been putting heavy penalties on
convicted jointists.
Benjamin Curtis, after farming the |
same land near Doniphan since 1854 has |
sold his farm and moved to Atchison.
Ex-Mayor S. C. King, of Atchison, is
having built a machine that can be |
used for blowing, or for hauling freight |
wagons. 1t is on a new principle dis
covered by him, and which he has to
hide because of its simplicity. 1t is a
machine with legs, acted upon
by gasoline engine The machine
being built is of Is horsepower and
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