The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1902-11-28

Baker, n young man residing at han'
apolis, was instantly killed at the
Annapolis salt works. He was en-
gagged in relieving chute filled with
fine salt which had become clogged.
The mass of salt above fell upon him
forcing him through the chute to the
basement where the large volume OF
salt crushed the life out of him.
APPOINTED A CADET Congressman
A. M. Jackson has appointed Blanton
Tandy, of Winfield, as cadet to West
Point to fill the vacancy of Cadet Young
of Independence, who served two years
and had to resign on account of poor
health. Harvey Ellridge of Parsons,
and r. M. Wrinkle, of McCune, were
applicants.
AN EARLY FRIEND OF KANsAs.-A
bronze bust of Frank b. Sanborn, a
friend of Kansas in the early days, has
been received by the State Historical
society from the Boston Museum of
fine Arts. d. w. Wilder, who has
known Mr.. Sanborn for half a century,
will write a sketch of him for the so.
ciety.
WILL ASK FOR $75, 1000 Senator j.
c. Carpenter, of Chanute, president of
the Kansas commission to the Louisiana
Purchase exposition, says that the
commission will ask the legislature for
an additional appropriation for the
Kansas exhibit at the fair of only $751;
600 instead of Sl5O, 600 as reported.
STATE BUYS POTATOES. E.
Brewer, of Abilene, has secured the
contract for supplying the two state
insane asylums, the school for the deaf
and dumb, and the imbecile asylum,
during the next six months. 1t is es-
timated that 1000 bushels will be used
ANTI TRUST LAws.-County Attor.
ney Nichols of Shawnee county has
brought suit against 65 fire insurance
companies for violation of the anti
trust laws. A test case is set for trial
on December 2.
A $1,000 LENs.-The objective lens
for the Grand Prix telescope at Wash
burn college will come packed in cot
ton and curled hair, from Cleveland,
where it was made. The lens is valued
at $500.
| THANKSGIVING A HOLIDAY. at
torney general has decided that teach
ers cannot be locked for not holding
school on thanksgiving. School boards
in Central Kansas made the opinion
necessary.
DROWNED IN WATERING TANK.-Miss
Mollie Starr, daughter of a Dickinson
county farmer, was drowned in q
watering tank. She led the horses to
water and evidently tainted, falling in.
SHOPS DEDIoATED.-Over nine hum
bred couples attended the dedication
ball at the new Santa Fe shops in To-
pelSa. The new shops will give work
to about 1000 men.
EARNED PRoMoTIoN.-Count Clerk
Elect John Wright of Shawnee county
has served as deputy or clerk in that
Office for thirteen years
SERVED UNCLE SAM "a YEARS
James II. Beddon, wagon master, has
served "a years for the government at
Fort Leavenworth.
BOoKKEEPERs TO MEET.-Their state
association met at Emporia on Novem-
Der 25. c. Meserve, of Emporia, is
president.
GAINED acknowledgements
Longs majority is over five times that
he received two years ago.
To CONSOLIDATE Posrs.-Sedgwiclz
county Grand Army Veterans are agi-
tating the consolidation of all posts of
the county, leaving Garfield post, in
Wichita, which is the parent organiza-
tion in the county, as nucleus for the
concentrating of them all.
SYRACUSE TO THE FRoNT.-The new
Santa Fe time card shows that SYRIA
cuse is at last a division point; coal
chntes, dining room and other i'm
provements are being put in, and after
this everything on wheels will stop
there.
Hoe CHoLERA.-The Sedgwicl1 Pan
tagraph says that good many farmers
are scared over the epidemic of hog
cholera, or fever or whatever it is that
is causing the hogs to die off so rapidly.
AS a result great many young hogs
are being rushed to market by farmers
for fear the disease will get into their
stock.
ONLY ELEVEN Observation-Disclosures
Jewett's annual report says that only
eleven of the 1,Os9 prisoners in his
charge at the Kansas penitentiary are
natives of Kansas.
LAID OUT LAWRENCE Captain A.