The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1902-01-24

smallpox.
The sewer system at Concordia is
completed.
Hoyt, jackson county, has new
state bank.
There are 81 cases of measles reported
in and about Miltonvale.
A packing company has Incorporated
to operate at Leavenworth.
During 1901 the Wichita street cars
carried ,434, 517 passengers.
Coffeyville is confident of having
$500, 900 cotton mill built there this
year.
CD. Prather, of Franklin county,
who was with the Twentieth Kansas,
is crazy.
Mr.. Helby, of Elwood, Indiana, is
looking for location for a glass manu-
factory in Kansas
Assaria, Saline county. has new
state bank, the capital stock of which
is held by farmers.
A. f. Watson, of Salina, has been APP
pointed to high salaried clerkship in
the postoffice department.
Burlington proposes to follow the
plan adopted at Beloit, and provide
rest room in the new court house.
Patrick Jordan, who built most OF
the houses in Beloit during its youth,
has Just died at the age of 81 years.
Many German Russians from Argea
tina and some from from Brazil are eX-
pected to come to Kansas this year.
The Union Pacific is building a new
turntable at Beloit 1t is built with
steel to replace the old wooden turn
table.
The alumni of the Emporia normal
have commenced to raise fund of $751;
600 to erect an alumni building at the
state normal.
Thirty-eigh men and Al women of
one ward in Garnett signed a petition
asking that an application to sell
liquors be granted.
An Elk City fire destroyed two stores
and several offices. 1t is believed that
the fire was caused by burglars. The
loss is about $12, 900.
Frank Grimes, state treasurer, says
that more counties are now paying off
bonds before maturity than at any
other time since 1895.
A Topeka jointist has brought suit
against the city for $4,000 which he has
deposited from time to time in the city
police court, on 112 counts.
The banks of Saline county have ST.,
$685. 900 deposits, the greater portion of
which belongs to farmers. Four years
ago the deposits were about 100000.
The Missouri Pacific is said to have
submitted proposition to the town of
Dillon to move their division point
there from Council Grove if the town
will donate ten acres of land.
c. Oldfather, of Maize, Sedgwick
county, drew his check for $4,000 in
payment for 1900 acres of land in Bar
Der county. He intends to break out
the land and SOW it to alfalfa.
A $4,000 addition is to be made to
st. Francis hospital in Wichita, making
As new rooms and 100 rooms in all.
The addition will be 100 by 40 feet,
three stories high, with porch 100
feet long with four floors. Seven years
ago the hospital had but Is rooms.
Carlos Diamond, a native of Wichita,
the son of Wichita born, bred and
married mother, took the gold medal
awarded by France at the annual Chill
dren's international show. He was the
only American child in the show. His
mother is trombone soloist in the Bar
mum & Bailey circus.
Mrs. S. F. Cravens, who is connected
with tho Ottawa university, has been
decided by judges appointed by ST.
Louis paper to be the most beautiful
woman in Kansas. The judges decided
from photographs.
The old Rufus Cone farm near Wich-
tia was sold to an Illinois man a year
ago for $4,000. He has just sold the
farm for So, 800.
The supreme court decides that own
ers of elevators are not liable for fire
loss to owners of wheat, except in case
of negligence on their part.
There is plan forming to build
trolley line from Salina to Lincoln, a
distance of thirty-five miles. The Sa-
lima commercial club is considering it.
Many Kansas towns are forming COM
mercial clubs just in time to have
representation at the Reciprocal con-