The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1902-07-04

hall.
+ The annual meeting of the State
|, Millers' association will be held in To
peka on July 9.
Lightning entered house in Chanuta
and among other strange freaks melted
a set of silver on the table.
A windstorm in Labette county on
June 20 scattered wheat shocks and
blew down standing wheat.
The safe in the Santa Fe station at
Minneapolis was blown open in the
night and few dollars taken.
Eastern parties are securing leases
ON lands near Wellington with view
to re-opening the salt industry.
Natural gas from the Kansas gas belt
is to be piped to Joplin and other
towns in the zine mining district.
Abilene people have put up $500 to
build ball park and work commenced
at once to build a grand stand and a
fence.
The jury to try Jessie Morrison at
Ell Dorado consists of eleven farmers
and one laborcr. The trial began on
June 90.
Kansas farmers are agitating the
abolishing of June terms of court.
They cannot afford to leave their farm
work in June.
One-sixth of the total tax levied in
Kansas this year will be paid by the
railroad, Pullman, telegraph and tele-
phone companies.
The race for supremacy between
Great Bend and Dodge City is close
Dodge City is now only 60 behind Great
Bend in population.
The western branch of the state nor
NAL school at Fort Hays was opened on
June 20. The enrolment and the in
terest shown are encouraging.
An immense crowd celebrated John
the Baptist's day at the Masonic home
in Wichita. Almost every Masonic
lodge in the state was represented.
Mrs. Charles p. Grosvenor, of Law
renee, proposes to donate a site for
Carnegie library if the city council ac-
cepts Mr.. Carnegie's proffer. She de-
sires to make it memorial to her hus-
band.
About 600 visiting Masons of the
Northeastern Kansas Masonic union
held their seventh annual convention
at Marysville on ST. John the Baptist's
day. An outdoor meeting was tend
ed by 1000 people.
Edward w. Eskridge son of the late
c. V. Eslsridge, of Emporia, and Fred
Z. Potter son of Thomas NJ. Potter, of
Peabody, graduates from the law de-
partment of Ann Arbor college, have
arrived at their homes in Kansas
A slick thief robbed three young lady
stenographers in one building in Wich-
tia. The thief watched for the ste
nographer to be alone, then telephoned
to her that she was wanted at an office
a story below. While each girl was
away to meet the call their purses
were robbed
Otis Thompson, son of the Rev. j.
w. Thompson, pastor of the Presby-
terrain church at Marion, last week
passed out of the junior grade of a
great Philadelphia medical college at
the head of class of $50 students.
His rank was as high as anyone has
ever received in the institution.
Five people were hurt in runaway.
They were Blue Rapids people return
ing from Marysville. The neck yoke
broke and the horses ran away. The
injured are Mr.. and Mrs. L. A. Win
tiers, Mr.. and Mrs. James A. Death and
Miss Richard. The condition of Mr..
Winters was serious. The party had
been attending the Masonic celebration
at Marysville
OOl. CudTleS II. ILLS, WHO Will odiil
Wood founded Cottonwood Falls almost
so years ago, is dead. He had become
millionaire in the wholesale tobacco
business in St. Louis.
Mother Superior Bernard, at the
head of the Catholic order of the Sisters
of st. Joseph, in Kansas, with head
quarters at Wichita, left for trip
through Europe. She is accompanied
by Sister Rose of the order and Miss
Mayme Prendergast, of Abilene, and
they will visit all the principal cities
of the continent.
"Kansas is calling for 5000 men to
help harvest its ruined wheat CROP"
says the Nebraska State Journal. sit
is really an honor as well as pleasure
m live in q state nj iOininO KanSas and