The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1902-12-12

} vass, getting $40 bargains for stoves
| that local merchants sold at $50. They
had seven parties in MS many wagons
The county commissioners declared II
license fee of $50 per wagon, and the
fine for peddling without license is
| 500 per man. The fallirs cleared out.
| MEDICAL LECTURES AT X. ia
course of lectures is now being offered
to medical students at the University oil
Kansas, one lecture per week, on FRI
day A number of prominent phys'-
clans at Kansas and Missouri have been
engaged to deliver these lectures on
special subjects of their own choosing.
A LIFE ss.-The general superin'
tendent of the Rocl. Island sent life
pass to Mrs. j. NJ. Holtzclaw, OF Lam
don, as a recognition of her worthy act
in saving freight train from running
into burning bridge on the railroad
near her place. She saw the fire and
tagged the train.
| WINFIELD w ELL EoiE 49,
fields newly discovered gas well was
tested on pilot syphon pressure gauge,
and a daily flow of 1,25o,00O cubic feet
was obtained. 1t was much greater
than was expected, and the we'll will
be delivered to the city in few days
for $4,000.
Il
A GOOD NEIGHBoRHoOD.- Solo,
mon, Frederick Useine had fine crop
of kafir corn standing in his fields, but
two weeks ago became i'll with typhoid
fever The neighbors turned out in
force and harvested the entire crop, be-
sides fixing his barn yard and sheds
for winter.
In TOPEKA AFTER Al YEARs.-W. III.
Macl1ey, ST., of Junction City, visited
his son, United States Marshal MaclSey,
and George w. Martin in Topeka. AL
though he has lived in Junction City
since long before the war; this is his
first visit to Topeka since 1861.
ELEVEN HUNDRED PHONES. - The
Wichita Telephone company, the new,
independent company, has eleven hun
bred phones in the city in working or
der, and by the middle of the month
will have installed 200 more.
DICK WALKER SICK.-Colonel Dick
Walker, formerly United States mar
shall for Kansas, was brought to Topeka
from Oklahoma, suffering with lung
trouble. He is now at the home of his
brother in a serious condition.
CONVICTED OF RoBBING. Baker,
who was summoned as juror in the
Eldorado court, in the Jessie Morrison
case, has been convicted of robbing an
other juryman of three $50 pieces They
slept in the same room.
HAD CHURCH PAINTED. The congre-
CATION of the Winfield Baptist church
were surprised to find that H. L. Trice
had caused the painting of the interior
Of their church, unknown to the con-
gregation.
HAS FALLEN HEIR.-Franlx p. Fitz-
William, city attorney of Leavenworth,
has inherited fortune through the
death OF his uncle in Pittsburg, Pa.
which is estimated at over 81, 900, 900.
APPOINTED CHEF SURGEON. - DIR.
George Grimes, late Of Hiawatha, has
been appointed to the place of chief
surgeon in the American hospital al
Constantinople.
A KANSAS NEGRO. Geo. w. Ellis, q
negro of Lawrence, Hans, has been ap-
pointed as secretary of legation al
Monrovia, Liberia.
BY HIS OWN Doa.-George Robinson
a negro of Wellington, was attacked
by vicious dog which he was endeav'
oring to keep away from neighbor girls
There is fear that he will not recover
He kept the dog as a watch dog and
when it attacked the girls he ran tc
their assistance.
To SUCCEED FIKE.-Pat German, o.
Fort Scott, is candidate for Demo
, cratic member Of the railroad boarl &c
succeed ]. N. File, of Colby, whose
5 term expires in January. Fike is alsC
an applicant for reappointment.
r DEwEY's RANCH FIRED.-Fire wal
D started in several places on the rancl
, according to the Colby Tribune's &C
3 count At one place a Irvine was sat
, urated with kerosene and stretched
, across a road. In this way strip o
: several miles was fred. Blood hounds
were sent to the ranch.
A Girl. BABIES WASTED.-The Glob'
s says that there are nineteen babies a
= the State Orphans home and only-tw'
: girls in the bunch. As soon as CIR
S baby appears, some one wants to adop
Ii.
: KILLED IN SAMAR-Aylmer E. Hen
4 dryx, a Wichita volunteer, who wa