The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1901-08-09

Governor Stanley has pardoned Car
rie nation out Of the Shawnee county
Jail.
The Kansas railroad commissioners
have asked for lower rates on forage
and feed.
Farmers in Southern Kansas have
commenced blowing for wheat since
the rains.
Men of Parsons sent to Delaware to
get charter for an oil and mining
company.
Two Mcpherson county girls shocked
their fathers wheat crop. Men could
not be found to do it.
Wind and hail did damage in the
vicinity of Bavaria, Saline county, dam
aging some wheat stacks.
The Santa Fe's libraries for its en-
employees at numbers of division sta
tons. contain 1000 books
Atchison printers say that the tax
list they are setting now is the short
est Atchison county ever had.
The floods injured the foundation OF
a new building in Topeka, being erect
ed for wholesale grocery firm.
Emporia cannot stand the odor and
has ordered the chicken killing estab-
lishment outside the city limits.
An Emporia man has been arrested
for killing fish in the river with I'M
| Stacked lime. He was selling the fish.
Secretary Geo. w. Martin, of the his
torical society. addressed the best old
settlers meeting Hutchinson ever held,
on August /.
Ex-Congressman John Davis died at
the home of his daughter at Topeka.
He was "A years old and had been blind
for several years.
Records kept at Kansas university
show that July. 1901, was the warmest
month during the "a years in which
record has been made.
The pavement in front of the Com
mercial bank of Independence, is a
single block II inches thick, % feet
long and l6 feet wide.
T. NJ. Bensons barn near Hackney,
Cowley county, was destroyed by light
ming, with it's whole contents, includ-
ing a horse and mule.
A Kingman county rauchman offers
to feed 500 steers until spring grass
comes at IS head, or keep them until
next fall fall for $40 head.
The manager of the Harvey eating
house at Dodge City, has been arrested
charged with having prairie chickens
in his possession out of season.
p w. Zimmerman of the Santa Fe
claims attorneys Office, has been APP
pointed travelling claims adjuster with
headquarters at Albuquerque.
The Woodman's picnic at Circleville
drew 5000 people Governor Stanley
was there. There were two good bands;
the Onaga band and the Girl band of
| Wetmore.
The state board of medical registra-
ton has done something. Ithas turned
into the state treasury $4,2S076 of col
lected fees. What their own bills are
is not stated.
j. II. Dow. the Oldest citizen of Olathe,
and for years the owner of the largest
store there, was found drowned. 1t is
believed to be case of suicide. Mr..
Dow was bachelor.
James R. Woods, the young man
from Kansas, drew two prizes in the
new country; the first was wife, and
the next was the first choice of 100 acres
in the Lawton land district.
The annual reunion of the 21st Kan
sas volunteers has been changed from
Great Bend to Hutchinson, where it
will occur on August 13-17; dates fixed
for the state reunion of the G. A. R.
]. E. Fisher, of Edwards county, was
on the point, five years ago, of aban-
doning his farm because of dry climate.
He and his sons now hold clear t PIE to
quarter sections, have 100 cattle, 20
horses and every kind of farm imple-
ments, besides 5000 bushels of wheat
in the bin. They have sufficient forage
to carry through the stock.
Governor Stanley has offered re-
ward of $500 for the arrest of the man
who assaulted young woman at Col
by. The county commissioners have
offered $500. The wretch was trailed
by bloodhounds toward Atwood where
all trace was lost.
Governor Stanley does not believe
that the Benders were killed near
Cherryvale, and almost everybody else
believes that they were. 1t is true,
however. that their disappearance was
not discovered until they had been
gone for three days.