The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1902-06-13

and one house was struck by lightning.
The Topeka school board decides to
employ no married woman as teacher.
Tie internal revenue receipts for the
district of Kansas for May were S41,-
41745.
The ice factory at Coffeyville is
burned at loss of $4,000, with $40, 600
insurance.
The Greenwood county normal insti-
tute opened with 1Oe teachers in at
tendance.
At the Ness City high school 20 re-
ceived diplomas; fifteen of the number
were boys.
Mrs. Augusta Erickson of Usage City,
dropped dead while visiting relatives
at Butler, Mo.
Reub Neal has hauled his wheat into
Caldwell with the same pair of mules
ever since 1885,
Parsons had heavy rain lasting
two hours. The streams were all out
of their banks.
At Ottawa the Marias Des Cygnes
reached the 90 feet mark some time be-
fore it stopped rising.
The capacity of the Clay Center
pressed brick plant has been increased
to 20, 600 brick per day.
James II. Watrous, veteran of the
civil war and much esteemed business
man of Burlington, was buried on
May 81.
The new G. A. r. commander, ii. c.
Loomis, is trying to make up big
delegation to the national encampment
at Washington.
At the 3sth commencement day at
the Kansas State Normal 152 persons
received diplomas as post graduates
and 10 finished the course.
The ball game between the teams of
Friends university and the Alva, Okla,
Normal, was stopped by rain after -
innings without a single score for
either team.
General Miles arrived at Fort Riley
in a special car on June A. Testing of
the new guns WAS commenced soon
after his arrival. He remained at the
fort but a short time.
The Ellsworth company of National
Guards claims to have the finest armory
in the state. 1t has floor space of so
by 100 feet, is lighted by electricity
and heated by steam.
Doniphan, once on the Missouri
river, with steamboat landing, is
now three miles from the river and
much of the bottom land of that three
miles is in wheat this year.
Frank Myers, who enlisted at Fort
Scott where his mother still lives, is
sick and penniless in Denver. He
served three years in the Philippines
in Company f, 18th infantry. He was
on his way home when taken sick.
The Denver Relief Corps is caring for
him.
john Henry Barrows, president of
Oberlin college, who died the other
day, was once superintendent of the
schools of Usage county, Kansas. Later
he was pastor of the First Presbyterian
church of Chicago He organized the
Worlds Congress of Religions during
the Columbian Fair.
The memory of some people is not to
be depended upon. 1t has gone the
rounds that Governor Osborne was the
only Kansas governor whose home was
in Topeka. Osborne's home was in
Leavenworth when he was elected gov
ernor, and was previously in Doniphan
county. No Topeka citizen was ever
governor of Kansas.
Rain, amounting to cloudburst
fell north and east of Wamego on May
81. Some fields were three feet under
water.
Topeka, Parsons, Cherryvale, Salina
Florence, Reading and Eel Dorado re
port very heavy rains on June A. This
would indicate a wide and universe
soaking.
Bert Oaks who stabbed II. b. Raley
a commercial traveller, in front of the
Breton house at Winfield, has beer
arrested and brought back from Santa
Rosa, New Mexico.
The blacksmiths of La Cygne offer t.
do free the work the farmers need wht
suffered heavy loss from hail, if thu
farmers will furnish the material.
Ellsworth had the heaviest rain o
the season on June 4. Many farmer
who plowed up their wheat regret it a
wheat left standing promises hal
crop.
Rev. Louis Hills, son of e. L. Hills
of the Soldiers Orphans home a
Atchison, is going to Manila where h
will be the pastor of a Presbyterian