The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1902-10-24
KANSAS COMMENT.

scheme as they were won't to do last
spring.
10 ACRES OF PAsTURE.-A field OF
this size in Sedgwicls county produced
this season 1o3,95o pounds of hay, or
bver 81 tons, netting fully $3.50.
BAD RoADs.-At ottawa the roads
are in such a condition that the water
blant may have to shut down owing to
the difficulty of hauling out coal.
SHOT AT MINISTER. Rev. j. M. jack
son, Topeka Methodist pastor, was
shot at in his own yard. He has been
very active in the anti-saloon agitation
RIGHT ARM CRUsuED.-Wm. Tracy,
who works in the plating room OF the
Santa Fe shops in Topeka, had his arm
badly crushed, having caught in
wheel.
AN OLD-TIMER DEAD.-John Nj.
Crowell, who from 1870 to 1885 was
postoffice inspector for nineteen west
ern states, is dead, aged 80. he lived
in Atchison since 1858.
BEIoIT HAS GADDERs.-A Missouri
Pacific conductor told reporter OF the
Call of that city that the people OF BE-
lott do more gadding than those OF any
other place on the line.
FRIENDS UNIVERSITY During the
Friends yearly meeting at Lawrence
$1,000 was added to the endowment
fund of Friends university. Ihls
brings that fund to nearly $4,000
AFTER EIGHTEEN YEARs.-F. 8. De
Long, who has been living at Preston,
accidentally discovered that Mrs. Shack
lee, who lives at Pratt, was a sister OF
his he had not seen for eighteen years.
INSANE MAN KILLS HIMsELF.-Chas.
D. Hardy, state insane asylum in
mate at Topeka, laid down on the ROCK
Island track in front of passenger
train, on a short curve, and was killed.
He was prominent Mason and was
once register of deeds of Kingman
county.
WILL ELECT II JUDGES. are
seventeen district judges to elect in
Kansas this year In the Sixth dis
trict every county will have an oppor-
tunitv to vote for a district judge.
That is the only district in the state
where the terms of all the judges eX-
pire this time.
THE MOST CEMENT SIDEwALKs-The
Mirror believes that Olathe has more
blocks of modern cement sidewalks
than any city Of twice its size in the
state. Almost all the walks in the
business portion of town are made OF
this material, and there are good
many of them in the residence district.
LARGEST TELESCOPE IN KANSAS. -
The observatory at the Wesleyan uni
versity at Salina was opened to the
public on the occasion of the eclipse OF
the moon. The university has one OF
the largest and best telescopes in the
state and the students and citizens
Joined in watching the eclipse and also
to view Perine's comet which is now
said to be visible.
MAJOR CRowELL's RECoRD.-The late
Major John NJ. Crowell, of Atchison,
was a member of the famous vigilance
committee of San Francisco, and was
known as "Boston." During his life
he visited California four times, never
bv rail- He helped lay ont the site OF
Sacramento, and there had a cabin
next TO the shack of D. o. Mills, the
New York capitalist. In Atchison
Major Crowell lived in the house in
which he died forty years.
APPLE PICKERs IN DEMAND.-The
orchardists about Wamego were short
100 men to pick apples last week. The
large acreage of sweet potatoes there is
also being damaged for want of men to
dig them. The~demand there for apple
barrels is heavy. The factory at Wame-
go is working double shifts of Is men
each.
3LAReEsT CoRN.-Captain E. p.
Diehl, of Olathe, was awarded the
honor of exhibiting the largest ears OF
corn on exhibition at Washington dur
ing the Grand Army encampment.
You've FARMER ATTACKED.-August
Martin, a young farmer of Saline coun-
ty, was attacked by two strangers
while returning home from dance
at an early hour in the morning. They
fred two shots at Martin, one entering
his left leg.
TALLEsr CORN STALKS. The talles'
corn stalks exhibited at Kansas head
Quarters in Washington, measuring II
feet Q inches, were grown by a. 3
spore, of Newton. They have beer
placed in the museum of the depart
ment of agriculture.
SHOT A CATAMoUNr.-Claude Miner