The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1902-01-10

county, died from injuries received In a
runaway.
Leavenworth has voted $500, 1000 OF
bonds for the purchase of the water
works plant
Four hundred acres lying adjacent
to Newton has just been sold to an
Iowa investor for $s9, 900 in cash.
Phillips county officers are looking
for a lightning rod sharp who has been
working the farmers.
General Fitzhugh Lee is to address
the Spanish war veterans
reunion in Topeka on February II.
Jewell City has sunk a shaft down
1O7 feet in searching for coal. The
shaft is nearly full of salt water now.
During the holiday trade Emporia
merchants suffered much loss by shop
lifters. Eight of them were arrested.
James Haynes, of Powhattan, while
scuff1ing with boy over small rife,
was instantly killed by bullet from
the gun.
Mike Sutton says he has earned his
living in his law business while he was
revenue collector and has saved the
SIT, 900 he got out of that job.
Deputy Fish Warden Tegmier caught
five persons spearing fish and arrested
them. The minimum penalty is jail
sentence and fine of SIS, with costs.
The Kansas meeting of teachers
brought 800 of them together. The
Missouri meeting only counted 700, and
Missouri is fifth in population of the
states.
o. W. Coffelt, who is charged with
The murder of Detective Montgomery
at Winfield, is said to have been the
official hangman for several years at
Fort Smith.
Temporary quarters are to be built
at the Leavenworth federal prison for
Indian prisoners who have consump-
ton. The prison is overcrowded and
there are several sick Indians
General Passenger Agent Hughes, of
the Frisco, proposes to cause to be pub
lished in 1880 papers, scattered over
the country, a statement of the re-
sources and opportunities of Wichita.
Bill Fisher the Horton politician
and horse man, who weighs something
less than a ton, has been at Colorado
City for five months, where he is inter-
ested in banking and lumber enter
prises.
The franchise of the Missouri & Kan
sas telephone company in Wichita hav-
ing expired, the city commenced fight
by arresting men who were setting
poles. This case will go through the
courts, of course.
The completion of the Choctaw into
beat the time set by their
agreement three days. 1t was to get
there by January l. This gives An
thony four competing railroads and the
Orient will be the fifth.
Cherryvale has lost by fire five bust
ness houses, the opera house block, and
the Cherryvale Daily and Weekly
News, with other business places. The
total loss is about $4,000 A later dis
patch leaves out the news.
Herbert Valley and his wife, of Irv-
ing, were in bus at Manhattan wait
ing for train when the team ran
away. VALLEY, in trying to save his
wife from injury, had an ankle badly
broken and was otherwise badly
bruised.
Governor Stanley decides that he
cannot legally appoint an officer to fill
a vacancy until on actual vacancy ex-
lists, and will therefore take no action
on appointment of sheriffs until jan
uary 10. He will then make one APP
pointmcnt and press the question to an
early decision by the supreme court.
The Kansas grand lodge of the True
Eleven, colored organization, which
now has a free night school for aged
colored people in Atchison, has decided
to institute such schools in IS impor-
tant towns in the state where they
have lodges.
Judge Gilpatrick has denied the writ
of habeas corpus asked for prisoner
in the Kansas penitentiary, whose
term would be expired now if time was
credited to him when he was out on
bail. This is the first judicial decision
on that point.
Al Doty of Lyndon, a paroled pris-
oner from the Hutchinson reformatory,
killed his wife and soon after his head
less body was found on the railroad
track. The mother of the murdered
woman is insane from the effects upon
her of the tragedy.