The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1902-06-13

high school after a tedious controversy
over it's location.
Elias Hahn, of Minnesota, has given
81 900 to the Western Theological SEM
mary at Atchison.
Prof. C. E. Arnold, president of the
Mcpherson college, is dead from an
operation for cancer.
The town marshal of Lyndon is given
$40 a month; all fees taken TO be turned
over to the treasury.
Governor Stanley has pardoned Car
RE Nation ont of Jail upon payment OF
her fine of 500 and costs.
Lon Altman shot and killed Charles
Keefanner at Paola. They are both
of well known families.
Very heavy rains occurred on June :
at Reading, Emporia and Arkansas
City, Wichita got sprinkle.
A local firm at Olathe has offered
prizes of SIS and $40 for the best and
second best kept lawn in the city.
An Atchison county township trustee
utilities old boilers. He takes out the
fues and uses the shells for culverts.
The total value of farms in Sedgwicll
county is estimated at Sl5,025, 555,
which is 90 per cent more than last year.
At the close of the revival in Con-
cordia the Blade said: at looks
mighty forlorn down on saloon row
these days"
The Topeka city assessors found$3,-
99s, $50 invested in manufacturing in
dustries, with an annual output footing
up SIG, sos, 1853.
The old soldiers of Topeka gave PEN
sion Commissioner Eugene f. Ware a
reception on the night of May 81, at
Lincoln Post hall.
i. Sample is the prosecuting attor-
ney in Osborne county. Another f.
Sample is candidate for the same
office in Barber county.
Emporia has raised $1,000 in cash,
leased the necessary grounds and ar
ranged for required supplies; all to Sc
cure the annual encampment of the
Kansas National guard in the fall.
At Florence the storm of June badly
damaged the Santa Fe round house,
carrying away a section of the roof and
moving out wall. The hail leveled
wheat and corn and broke sllylights.
The president of the Epworth League
of Washington is young man from
Wichita, now in the employ of the gov
eminent. His name is Edwin S. La
Fetra. He is the proprietor of a hotel
in Washington.
Judge r. b. Wall, of Wichita, has
sold 1000 acres in the north part of
Seward county TO j. b. Rhoads, of Ok
lahoma, for 81 an acre. Mr.. Rhoads
is now establishing a ranch on the
land. It is located in the section OF
the country known as buffalo flats
and it is thought that at some ancient
time it was under water. Wheat has
been successfully grown on the land.
The land is not enclosed.
Mrs. Mary Fisk, of Newton, had just
finished decorating her husbands grave
on Memorial day and had climbed into
the buggy, when, without moments
warning, she gasped two or three times
and fell against her stepson's shoulder.
She was taken from the carriage and
laid on the ground. The efforts of q
physician failed to restore conscious
ness. She had died while in the buggy
Mrs. Fisk was GO years old and had
lived in Newton 20 years.
There is bargain being negotiated
for the sale of the Topeka waterworlS'
to the city; SG5O,OOO being asked. The
city had previously offered S550,O00.
During the cloudburt at st. Nary
water enough fell to leave the streets
flooded with from eight inches to TIVE
and half feet of water. The Uniol
Pacific tracks were washed out anc
mcst of the stores were flooded. Their
was four feet of water in the basemen
of ST. Mary's college. Besides the los
of much other property considerable
stock was drowned.
Contract has been let at 1915 TO
repairing the north and west steps o
the Kansas capitol; also a contract a
S5,615. 90 for marble sSirtings for tn
stairways in the building.
The executive council received bid
for paper to be supplied to the stat
and awarded contracts to Cane Bros
of Chicago, for binding material and
the Butler Paper company for paper
The Moore Book and Stationery con
pany, of Topeka, got the contracts fo
stationery. The first two contract
named are worth about $2O,0 900.
The terra of Postmaster James CHS
ham, of Atchison, expires on July
Chisham weakened his chances of r,