The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1902-09-05

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The contest between rival Wichita
telephone companies has reached the
courts.
Within three years five babies have
been born at the Franklin county poor
farm.
Fort Riley has received instructions
to disband the pack trains at that
place.
Potatoes are rotting in the Kaw val
ley where the acreage is the largest in
Kansas.
David Buck, formerly of Junction
City, died ON August "a of cholera, at
Manila.
A sub-station of the Wichita post
office is to be established near the
packing houses.
w. II. Smith, secretary to the state
railroad commission, is sick, and in
serious condition.
Floods entered many houses on the
banks of Cow Creek, which passes
through Hutchinson.
Kansas has ia towns and cities OF
over / 200 inhabitants; gain of three
over last years returns.
The Kansas Free Methodists held
their third annual conference at Ar
kansas City last week.
Wamego is to have new Touring
mill, to cost Si5, 900, with a capacity Of
100 barrels day or more.
Captain N. NJ. Nelson of the X. N. G. IS
Lindsborg company has resigned to
enter theological school.
A stranger was killed near Cimarron
suppoted to bear the name of Thomas
Hearnes. He was run over by train.
The 18th annual convention of the
Seventh district Christian Endeavor
society met at Burlington on August
&c.
Motorman Mace Miller, of junction
city, was drowned in the Republican
river. He fell from the platform of
his car.
Chanute brags' because the Santa Fe
SYSTEMS steel tank in that town holds
As, 900 gallons more than the new one
at Ottawa.
L. PalinsIli has bought the Alma
roller mills, one of the oldest roller
mills in the state, built in 1858. 1t has
good machinery.
w. II. Maxwell, the first white boy
born in Salina, came to visit his native
place from Greenwood, Indiana. Heis
now As years old.
Texas itch which was quite prevalent
among cattle of western Kansas is now
under control, with only few cases.
left. Dipping stopped the epidemic.
The burned mill at Gypsum City is
to be replaced by new mill of brick,
to be larger than the old mill. There
will also be large elevator erected in
connection with the mill.
Charles Hardy, a Kingman county
politician, who recently held the posi-
ton of U. s. land inspector, with head
quarters at Springfield Mo-, is now
confined in the Topeka insane asylum.
The Kansas state exposition in To-
peka during the week of September
s-13, is to have an automobile race for
large prizes, for which entries are made
by parties from several outside places
Albert Lake, of Frederick, 81 years
old, killed himself with shot gun.
The act had several witnesses. He
would let no one come near him. He
pulled off one shoe and with HE toe
discharged the gun into his forehead.
He was crazy drunk.
Chanute still accumulates gushers;
six of them were brought in last week
The are now 152 producers in the Chan
ute oil field.
Marion Coyle, aged 90, member of
the Frisco bridge gang, wGskilled near
Fontana by being crushed by timber
falling upon him. His neck was bro
ken.
The Neosho river flood of last week
was about as bad at Burlington as the
June flood. A number of houses were
struck by lightning, also half dozen
barns. Some stock was killed.
A ruling has been made by the state
superintendent that the exchange
clause in the school book law does not
compel contractors who will supply
books to exchange for old booolss ex-
cept of like kind and grade; for in
stance, a first reader must be exchanged
for first reader and so on.
A notice came to lola from the pen
sion commissioner stating that a pen
sion of $12 month had been granted
to Samuel O'Hara, Twentieth Kansas
soldier, and the date of the notice was