The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1902-07-11

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in typewriting all the manuscripts OF
his son.
Someone who has kept tab says that
in Kansas there were only six clear
days in June.
The state school fund holds So42, s6s
of Shawnee county bonds and $643, OOC
of state bonds.
1t is not unusual for good wheat
land in Sumner county to sell at from
$40 to $50 an acre.
The dome of the state house at To
pelSa has been closed because of van
dalism by visitors.
A small twistcr struck the home OF
]. c. Curry near Arkansas City doing
considerable damage.
R. E. Michaels, Missouri Pacific
fireman, fell from his engine near Dill
lon and broke his neck.
State Superintendent Nelson has is
sued a ukase against the use Of district
school houses for dances.
The new lieutenant governor of Ohio,
Harry L. Gordon, was twice member
of the Kansas legislature.
Governor Stanley's son Harry utilities
his school vacations at $50 a month as
clerk in the governors Office.
Fred Beeler, the big Jewell county
stock feeder, has 49, 600 acres of corn
growing on one of his places.
S. c. Lobabaugh, postmaster at Har-
per, was the last man confirmed by the
senate Just as the session closed.
j. p. Wilkins, of Horton, has been
appointed deputy U. $. marshal in
Indian Territory He went to Vinita.
Attorney General GODDARD holds that
school boards cannot deduct pay for
holidays from the wages of school
teachers.
II. M. Grafton has harvested his po-
tato crop off two Wichita city lots and
it produced at the rate of 367 BUSH
els to the acre.
Mrs. Thorpe, police matron of To-
pelSa, has founded an industrial school
for young children which has an at
tendance of ISL.
The Rock Island proposes to move
it's general freight Office from Topeka
to Kansas City when suitable build
ing is secured there.
The Topeka city railway company
proposes to spend 100000 in improv-
ing the system provided no franchise is
given competing company.
A. H. Williams has taken charge of
the Holton postoffice, relieving M. NJ.
Beck, who served 16 years. Williams
has lived in Jackson county since 1853.
The fuss between the Choctaw and
the Orient roads over their crossing in
Harper county has been amicably set
tied. 1t looked for time as though
there would be a legal battle.
Henry Starr, of Hagerstown, Ind,
followed Miss Alice Ressler to Milan,
Sumner county, and shot himself in
her presence because she refused to
marry him. His recovery is doubt
full.
A hundred or more Kansas school
teachers leave Topeka on Sunday, July
6, to attend the national teachers
meeting at Minneapolis, held July Sill.
Many will take side trips and be gone
month.
DR.. C. II. Richard, druggist and
physician of Cleo, o. t., was, with his
wife, arrested in Wichita, charged
with ill-treating a three-months-old
girl baby, which they had come here
to adopt some two weeks previously.
Miss Anna Horn, of Girard, % years
old, shot herself through the heart.
1t is thought she did the rash act be-
cause two of her former girl chums had
committed suicide in February, 1899.
The "Orient has purchased $95, 100. so
worth of land, consisting of 495 lots,
little more than 70 acres in one piece,
and lot of about 10 acres, at Wichita
for terminal facilities and shops. The
deeds were made on January 81 last,
but were withheld until condemnation
proceedings were completed on another
tract.
When President Roosevelt gave Cal
vim Titus, the young Wichita soldier
who scaled the wall of Pekin, medal
at West Point, the president said to
him, "Cadet Titus, please don't get the
big head now and spoil it ALL" Titus
tells this himself.
The local fraternal lodges of Kansas
are seemingly much interested in the
plans for Temple of Fraternity to be
built at the st. Louis exposition
grounds. 1t is to contain so rooms
and will be on the style of the Par
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