The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1901-03-22


The Leavenworth postoffice sold $751;
COS. % worth of stamps in February.
Wabaunsee county people fixed
March Is for the closing of saloons.
Tho county clerk of Osborne county
has resigned to go to work on his farm.
An Osborne county has a team of
mules that has served him for "a years.
A first shipment of 10000 pounds of
lead ore has been made from Pleasan-
ton.
The Citizens and the Democratic
city tickets of I.eavenworth are both
wet.
Independence now has two gas COM
panies; the second having been given
franchise.
Senator Baker resumes the practice
of law in Leavcnworth with his son as
his partner.
w. b. Bird, of Topeka, succeeds w.
L. Ho,comb as clerk of the State Labor
commissioner.
Fort Riley day is one of the drawing
cards for the G. A. r. encampment at
Junction City.
Daniel Jones, of Preston, was frozen
to death on the prairie during the re-
cent blizzard.
T. A. Runyan has been acquitted CT
the charge of wrecking the state bank
of Yates Center.
Many students at the state normal
school have smallpox. There are fifty
cases in Lyon county.
James Goforth was found dead in his
bed at Burden. He was G5 years old
and respected citizen.
The Excelsior water mill at Burling
ton has been sold to C. d. Parker, of
Kansas City, for 200.
Kansas already has 1877 rural deliv-
cry mail routes, with Others being
added. Missouri has only 81.
The Manhattan library association
has sold 200 shares at S. each, with
which to start public library.
The annual convention of the Chris
tan churches of the Seventh district
opened in Wichita on March l".
Pat Coney is at his home in Topeka
and is almost blind from the effects OF
an explosion in his zinc mine in Mis-
souri,.
Complaint is made that fishermen are
sweeping Kansas streams of their fish,
regardless of the new law which pro-
hibits seining.
6The anti-fusion election law is not in
force until published in the statute
books, and therefore does not apply to
spring elections.
Under new law city city clerks can
not refuse to allow registration books
to be copied by representatives of po-
litic,l organizations.
The twenty-ffth anniversary of the
discovery Of coal in Southeastern Kan
sas has been celebrated in Pittsburg.
Crawford county is the largest pro-
Queer of coal in the state.
The college farm department at Man
haitian finds that calves fed skim milk
and whole corn gained three pounds a
day, while those fed skim milk and
corn meal gained one and half pounds
a day.
A passenger train on the Leaven-
worth. Kansas & Western was ditched
near Soldier and eleven passengers
were injured; Leo Chadwick, superin-
tendent Of bridges and buildings, being
the most seriously hurt. The express
car caught fire.
Mrs Nation brother, c. II. Moore,
of Kansas City, provided bond for
her release from Jail in Topeka. She
says she will stay in Topeka.
Inc SSlOOl DOdIu has NC
cided to provide a truant school, to
which to transfer unruly scholars, and
to gather in young loafers on the
streets.
Heavy rains and hail are reported TO
have occurred on March o "all over
Kansas" amounting in some places to
almost a cloudburst. This sounds
strange in southern Kansas.
Governor Stanley has published a re-
ward Of $500 for the apprehension OF
members of the Leavenworth mob,
The reward stands good 90 days.
Law suits are becoming common be.
tween incumbents and elected county
superintendent, since Judge Thomp-
son decided the Wabaunsee county
case.
The private bank of ]. II. Springer.
at Argonia has been looted by three
men and s., 600 in cash and $4,000 in
u. S. bonds taken. The bank carried
s., 500 burglar insurance.
The legislature provided for an agent
In every county of the state TO hum
homes for children of the orphan'i