The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1901-02-22
The Elks of Atchison propose to erect
q sec. 900 clubhouse.


waterworks.
III. Sadler was killed by gunsho
in the head while in his corral neal
Cherryvale.
The Centennial hotel at Ottawa ii
burned. The guests all escaped. l
will be rebuild.
In Atchison, policies on plate glas
in buildings occupied by joints have
been cancelled.
The Woodmen in session in Wichit'
voted that their next session shall b'
held in Emporia.
All slot machines of every descrip
ton have been ordered out of business
places in Salina.
Bishop Millspaugh is supposed to b'
the only Kansas man who ever dinee
with Queen Victoria.
During the late snow storms a cen
trail Branch train was II hours getting
over AZ miles of track.
The Moderd Woodmen camps OF the
state met in Wichita on February ID
with about 300 delegates.
The Wichita Country club has com
menced work on new club house on
the College Hill Golf links.
A Salina mill employs coopers tc
make barrels in which to pack flour
for the New England trade.
The NJ. K. & T. shops at Parsons
have turned out $4,000 private car
for the president of the road.
A farmer near Sedgwick has received
notice that his house will escape dyna-
mite by the payment of $780,
A commission signed by George
Washington, when president, has come
to light in lawsuit at Atchison.
The cities of Topeka, Atchison and
Manhattan were all incorporated dur
ing st. Valentines week. "A years ago.
A Pennsylvania man proposes to con-
meet the mineral cities of Crawford and
Cherokee counties with trolley line.
A party of Iowa men have purchased
farms in Franklin county, 1000 acres
in all, at an average price Of $50 an
acre.
Carl Cocker, a German farmer, near
Lalsin, received broken arm and
other injuries, given by vicious Jer-
sey cow.
Misses Mabel and Bertha Hammond,
of Smith county, are ~ years and 81
years old. Mabel weighs 300 pounds
and Bertha 100 pounds.
c. F. Conklin, formerly of Kansas, is
showing New Workers how to play
billiards. He has the honors in this
years tournament there.
A committee of ten men is appointed
from each of the churches Of Emporia
with orders to close the joints. The
women are ready to do their part.
Friday, the 18th, was the first quiet
day in Winfield. During the day a
large order upon wholesale house in
Wichita for arms was sent to Winfield.
At Perry Is women wrecked the
three joints and drug store. In the
drug store one woman was burned on
the hands by breaking bottle of car
bolic acid.
At Olpe the ministers and women
gave the joints fifteen minutes to close.
When time was called every one was
shut up tight The same process was
repeated at Cottonwood Falls.
At COTS jointist was arrested and
taken to Seneca where he was turned
loose. A crowd gathered to smash his
place but the sheriff had charge of it
the crowd went to the depot and
destroyed large lot of liquors.
The railroad bill, as prepared by the
Joint railroad committee, places the
selection of the commissioners in the
hands of the executive council. 1t
gives the board the right to go into
the courts.
The Kansas & Southern which it is
proposed to build from Omaha to Wich-
ia, has become an important topic in
Council Grove.
st. Benedict's college at Atchison,
which was closed for month on &C
count OF sickness among the students,
is now re-opened.
Perry, in jefferson county, town
of 500 or 600 people, has a mill and
elevator that, during January, crushed
two million pounds of cornfor Local
cattle feeders, and paid out SOS, 200 for
wheat.
An Arbitration league has been
formed in Kansas City, Kas., with
plans to plant branches in Atchison
and other Kansas towns
The supreme court decides in a case
from Chautauqua county that a vote
which is cast and counted is presumed
to be legal until the contrary is shown
A Young lady from a neighborinp