The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1902-04-18

released.
There is a woman in the Labctte
county poor house who has been an
inmate for 80 years.
Twenty-eight freshmen and sophie
mores or Kansas university have been
suspended for ruflianism.
A clerk of the city election at Fort
Scott developed case of the smallpox
on the day after the election.
G. w. Smith has sold his 100 acre
farm in Sedgwick county to his neigh
Dor, Mr. Giser, at SIS an acre.
John A. Stevens and S. S. Taggart,
two of the oldest citizens of Western
Kansas and of Garden City, died on
April 7.
All the stores and banks of Troy
were closed on the day of the funeral
of Mrs. Chloe Leland, stepmother to
Cyrus Leland.
The RuslSin, Neb., bank robbers
were chased into Kansas until they sep
arated at Belleville. Their trail was
lost near Scandal.
Geo. r. Peck's daughter Ethel was
married in Chicago on April 0. All
Kansans know Geo. Peck, and there
are many who remember his daughter.
Word has reached Wellington that
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the eagle released in that city last No
vember by Cash Moore, has been killed
at Phillips, Wyo. Moore's name on
card was attached to 1T.
The Lindsborg News tells of a party
there who is constructing windmill
on top of his wagon box, which he be-
| lieves will enable him to beat the speed
of fast team on the road.
The Lawrence city council passed a
telephone franchise by unanimous vote;
at the next meeting the mayor vetoed
the ordinance and the council sustained
the veto by a unanimous vote.
P. P. Duffy, who was sergeant
II
for the Katy road, had as many of the
members of the Goth Kansas regiment
as could attend, at his wedding.
r. 7. Oliverson, Reno county farm
err, has started to attend the coronation
of Edward VII. He was one of the
10 900 school children who sang at the
coronation of Queen Victoria, 65 years
ago.
c. j. Devlin, who owns more coal
mines than anybody, is not troubled
about exhausting the patrimony due
his descendants. He says: after 10,-
600 years of continuous mining Kansas
will still be turning out as much coal
as she does today"
There are cases in the courts which
involve the amount of $4,000 claimed
from the city of Wichita for labor done
in overtime hours after the eight hour
law was passed. One of these cases
has been decided by the supreme court
in favor of the city.
Frank Montgomery sent this to the
Kansas City Journal zone of the fun
NEST sights ever witnessed in Topeka
was reserved for favored few the
other day. The Santa Fe closed its
general offices on account of repairs
being made to the building. A politi-
clan came along, found the doors locked
and "cussed" for ten straight minutes
because he couldn't get in to get pass.
The successful ballot at the city cleo
ton at Solomon had a statement print
ed on it that, so far as Solomon was
concerned, the election of the candi-
dates whose names were on the ballot
would be virtual repeal of the state
laws prohibiting the sale of intoxicants.
And the Lawrence Journal reverses
the supreme courts election law de-
cision. How wise people, some people,
are becoming
Frank Hutzell of Lyon county, was
almost instantly. His team started
while he was loading the wagon.
A steer shipped from Dodge City was
slaughtered at st. Joseph, Mo-, pack
| ing house and in the carcass was found
diamond brooch reported to be worth
$780,
George Avery, a Riley county farmer,
was killed by a train at a crossing.
Mr. Avery was 70 years old and some
what deaf. His team and wagon were
cut to pieces.
VIM. Kocll recently celebrated the
30th anniversary of his landing at
| Castle Garden from Germany with
scarcely penny. He now owns 200
acres of jackson county land and is
worth something near 100000.
S. S. Dickinson large fruit grower,