The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1901-02-15

securing 60 converts.
The senate refuses to bar lobbyists
from the senate chamber.
The state auditor collected fees in
January amounting to $132.50.
Abilene is trying to raise revenue
of 81 800 by an occupation tax.
Lyndon claims Harry Goof, Roose-
velt's guide, as former citizen.
The State Society of Labor and In
dustry met in Topeka February A.
A new national bank has been au-
thorized to be organized at Great Bend.
The postof1ice at Climax, Greenwood
county, has been robbed of sos worth
of stamps.
Only one farm in Salt Creek town
ship, of Lincoln county, is owned by a
nonresident.
The daily capacity of the Salina
Touring mills is from 1900 to 1000
barrels per day.
The divorce docket of the Montgom-
cry county district court has sixty
cases already filed.
The board of managers of the Sons
of the American Revolution met in To-
pelsa on January %.
Frank Wells, of Seneca, Kansas, has
commenced building home for him
self at Oklahoma City.
Bank Commissioner Mort Albaugh
has appointed S. E. drummer, of Belle
vile, one of his deputies.
Thirty of the guards employed to
protect the saloons in Wichita carry
deputy sheriff commissions
On February Z, 1871, Sumner county
was organized by Governor Harvey. 1t
was named for Charles Sumner
A commission signed by George
Washington, when president, has come
to light in a lawsuit at Atchison.
Kansas Republicans in Washington
are preparing to entertain the Topeka
fambeau club at the Inauguration.
A Bourbon county man applied to
the county commissioners to be APP
pointed as a rural delivery carrier.
The joints at Wellington were closed
by the mayor upon the supposition
that some kind of raid had been
planned.
Two hundred and ffty-eight women
of Eureka have petitioned the probate
Judge to refuse liquor licenses to the
druggists of Eureka.
j. 7. Houston, an Atchison county
farmer, has just finished new house
on his farm which has cost $1,000 1t
has all modern conveniences.
The ministers of Arkansas City have
united in request to the mayor to
close the joints They say they can
no longer repress crusade.
J. II. Bosserman, postmaster and a
sort of local preacher, of Clinton, Doug
las county, is under arrest for violation
of the prohibitory law. He gave 5000
bond.
There are three corps of engineers at
work on the Orient line between Wich-
tia and Kansas City. How best to get
through the Flint hills is still unset
tied.
Grading on the Orient road is near
the state line south of Anthony and is
being pushed. The work of securing
right of way in Sedgwick county will
be done in March.
j. D. Coffey, heretofore road foreman
of engines, has been appointed train
master of the middle division of the
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe at New
ton, Kas in place of r. d. Fowler,
who has been transferred to a position
in the office of the third vice president
at Chicago.
The Kansas agricultural college
dairy makes 1900 pounds of butter a
week.
Quahine, the Pottawatomie woman
who was killed by her husband, had a
funeral in the ancient Indian style.
A hollow tree had been cut off at the
proper height for the purpose and the
coffin was put down into it, feet fore
most and left there.
While Mrs. Nation was in police
quarters in Topeka, she received tele-
gram from Buffalo, N. Y, offering to
pay her expenses if she would go there.
Reverend Ralph Newman, of the
church, Leavenworth,
was the only minister in the town who
denounced the burning of Alexander,
and he also announced that unless his
endorsed him, he would
resign. The congregation endorsed
him.
Ten years ago Jimmie Nolan kissed
his Irish sweetheart good-by and sailed
away to make a nest for her. And