The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1902-10-17
Kansas Events
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the Missouri Paclnc IN WlcniJd 10 Iho
largest railroad freight depot west of
the Missouri river on the continent
The building, in addition to the office,
closet and bath rooms, has freight
room 307 feet long and "a feet wide,
and on either side of this is u covered
platform eight feet wide, giving them
width for handling freight of forty
feet and floor capacity of nearly 10000
square feet. 1t will be seen from this
that the road has space for handling
freight in Wichita considerably over
one third of an acre.
CHURCH WAS DECORATED. "a service
held in the Lutheran chnrch at Water
vile, marks the liberalized methods
which have been adopted in modern
times The service was in the nature
of u thanks giving for the bounteons
crops of the present year. The eiitice
was decorated throughout with fruits
of the farm and the orchard. Tall
stalks Of corn We'd with corpulent
sheaves of wheat and other grains in
suggesting the abundance of the season.
DosTER MAY SUCCEED HoRToN.-lt
is given out on reliable authority that
when Chief Justice Doster retires from
the supreme bench in January, he will
be given the appointment as Missouri
Pacific attorney to fill the vacancy
caused by the death of Judge A. IL.
Horton. The salary will be about
double that of chief justice.
BARNEY KELLY COMING HOME. Rev.
Bernard Kelly, who has been stationed
in the Philippine Islands for the past
year as chaplain of the United States
army, has received notice from the war
department that he will shortly be
placed on the retired list, and he is
now on his way home. He will reach
Topeka about November l..
A ~ MAN AUTo-A Winfield real
estate dealer has purchased an auto
mobile with carrying capacity of
IL people which he will use in showing
his customers about over the country
He believes he will be able to cover
more territory and do it at less expense
than by. the old plan of using car
riages.
CHURCH AT THE SHOPS. Bishop Mills
paugh has planned and negotiated for
the building of an inexpensive but suf-
ficently commodious mission church
near the Santa Fe shops in Topeka for
the convenience of the shopmen who
may be Episcopalians and others who
desire such services in that part of the
city.
VETERAN DROPS DEAD.-Robert
Hardy, of Emporia, an old soldier
dropped dead in front of the Citizens
bank. Mr.. Hardy had heart disease
He was in the Fourth West Virginia
infantry, Company B, during the civil
war, and had lived in Lyon county
about thirty-two years.
UP TO JUDGE DALE.-The state flu
sion committee, as anticipated, filed in
the district court in Wichita suit in
mandamus of Secretary of State George
Clark and County Clerk John Chain,
seeking to get the state ticket headed
by CraddoclS twice on the same ballot.
WAGGENER DENIES IT.-B. p. Wag-
gener emphatically denies the report
that Chief Justice Doster will succeed
the late Albert II. Horton in the Wag-
gener law firm. He says no such ar
rangement has been discussed.
On, No! Nor Now.-People are not
sneering at the "Orient" railroad
scheme as they were wont to do last
spring.
CROWDED SCHOOLS. Junction
City public schools have increased to
such an extent in attendance that the
board of education found it necessary
to provide more room. The old Meth
odst church was rented and will be
occupied by eighty pupils. The pres
emit enrolment of the schools is 1,10S.
OLD SETTLERS REUNION. Dick
inson county old settlers reunion was
attended by many from all parts
of the county. I. c. Henry, of Denver,
the old time wheat king, made the an
nual address.
IN EARLY TINES. -Mrs. Margaret
McIlwaine died recently at her home
in Osawatomie. She came to Kansas
in 1855 with her parents. She had
much experience with Missouri raiders
in the border ruffian times. Her first
husband was Robert Shields, who was
killed in battle while serving in the
Eleventh Kansas.
KANsANs ABRoAD.-Former resi-
dents of Concordia who are now living
in Los Angeles, Cal, met the other
day to hold a picnic. Seventy-one
were present.
LARGE COLLEGE ENRoLLMEMr.-Re-
ports already received by Frank Nell
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