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

The Hotel Hamilton at Severance
burned down with narrow escape OF
persons on the second floor.
DR.. ii. V. Chester, spectacles ped
dler, was arrested at Hutchinson
charged with assaulting widow at
Galva.
Leavenworth and Nebraska City
packers are cutting the trusts prices
for beef and are making large sales in
Topeka.
Dr. Frank Swallow, a resident poll
tician of Valley Falls who has lived
there from childhood, has arranged to
move to Montana.
Workmen at the Kansas state house
were laid off while tracers were out
for two carloads of marble which had
been lost in transit.
Jaw Wilbur, a Wichita gardener, will
go to Tampco, Mexico, to superintend
900 acres of land, a large part OF which
is used for gardening.
The produce buyers in Wichita esti-
mate that there has been paid out in
that city for poultry and eggs, within
the past year 1894, 900.
o. G. Dodge, formerly of Wamego,
Kansas, is now professor in mathe-
MATES in the United States naval
I
There are Kansas farmers who would
sell out but who refuse to sell for cash.
They want large part OF the purchase
money to draw interest.
The city council of Waterville has
decided to erect new city hall. The
funds are provided to the amount OF
SIS. 900 by vote to issue bonds
Banner City, Dickinson county, on
the Mo. Pac. r. r., experienced heavy
wind, with a clear sky, which unroofed
the Berry block, a brick building,
which was partly demolished.
1t is understood that Senator Burton
and all republican members of the
Kansas delegation in the house of rep
resentatives will attend the state con-
vention to be held at Wichita on May
%.
Kansas millers do not sell mixed
flour Internal Revenue collector
Simpson is selling practically no rev.
enue stamps for mixed -four All
mixed flour must bear a revenue
stamp
A partition was being taken out of
the Sherman house at Smith Center to
enlarge the office room when it was
found that it had been lathed with
sunfiower stalks. The wall was in
perfect condition after standing about
25 years.
When the Baptist young people as
sembled in Lawrence, there were 200
delegates present from the Kansas
river, Miami and Neosho districts
The first service was prefaced by
song and musical service by the Indian
pupils of Haskell institute.
VIM. Fouts, whose residence was
wrecked by the tornado in Linn county,
is reported fatally injured and his wife
and son and one daughter badly hurt
also. The same storm reached Pleas
anton and was accompanied by heavy
rain. Some buildings were wrecked in
the town.
Representative Long secured the re-
instatement of DR.. Mckee, of Newton,
in the railway mail service and subse-
quently transfer to clerkship in the
pension bureau, where DIR. Mckee was
assigned to the medical division. DIR.
Mckee is brother to Captain Mckee,
journal clerk of the house of represent
atives.
M. j. Rhue, an orchardist of Doni-
phan county, says the recent heavy
winds have been a good thing for the
orchards. The dust carried by the
wind, he says, smothered the moths
and other insects.
Frank Strong, the newly-elected
chancellor of Kansas University, was
given ride by about so students
They were clad in night shirts and
sheets and brought hack, attached
rope and hauled Mr.. Strong about the
city. He enjoyed and praised their
enthusiasm.
Beloit holds over other Kansas towns
in Securing Secretary of Agriculture
Wilson for the Chautauqua meeting at
that place.
The regents of Kansas University
cannot find a satisfactory man for
chancellor who will take the place at
S., 900 a year, and that is the limit of
the amount the regents can offer.
Seven new state banks were incor-
porated on the day of the big wind
storm last week; one each at Medicine
Lodge, Dwight, Gridley, Wilsey, Geuda