The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1902-01-31

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found drowned in the Maris Des Cygne
river.
Dodge City has taken up its six per
cent bonds with bonds drawing A per
cent.
Slot machines are being ibanished
from Kansas towns, Washington being
the latest noticed
In Dickinson county towns there arc
eleven less joints. Judge Moore closed
them by injunctions.
Colonel ID. 4. Anthony is being push
ed to become candidate for ,com-
mander of the Kansas G.. a. r.
An old tin can was unearthed near
Paola which contained $3.50 in gold
Mrs. Hymer proved that it was hers
Children and matches caused the loss
by E. A. Weller, of Wamego, of barn,
three horses and his hay and grain.
When Granville II. Meixell, of Mid
land College at Atehison died, his
friends sent $500 in cash in lieu of
flowers.
Washington pays the Methodist
church of that county seat city $40
wear for the use of it's bell for IRE
alarms.
A dynamo in the state house heating
plant burned out and the executive
council is investigating wnere to locate
the blame.
r. b. Gerow, director of the State
Free Employment bureau thinks that
housework should be taught in the pub
lie schools.
Brakeman George Turner had a wrist
broken and was otherwise badly in
iured from falling from train near
the Slate Creek junction.
A new town between Jewell City and
Beloit, where coal is expected to be
brought to the surface in car load lots,
is to be called Mineralton.
Peter A. Hartig, member of the
original town company and ever since
much respected citizen of Eudora,
was recently killed by train He was
nearly so years old.
City Attorney Chas. f. Spencer, of
Topeka told the municipal league
convention at Wichita that Kansas has
no law by which city can condemn
waterworlSs system.
The Missouri and Kansas Telephone
company are to supply their customers
in Topeka and Wichita with the new
instruments which call Central" au-
tomatically, with no bell ringing.
Postmaster Guthrie of Topeka is to
be from now on the paymastcr who
will send the cash pay every month to
all the rural free mail carriers in
Kansas. There are now about 200 of
them.
Supt Pearls, of the Haskell Institute
is asking for a supply of guns for his
Indian battalion. He has two COM
pdnleS Oh lHulduS WIN uldhc d huo
appearance as soldiers; one company
averaging six feet tall, the other com
pany only trifle smaller. The super
intendent will also ask for regular
army officer to drill his battalion.
DIR. Phillips was once the bosom
friend of Abraham Lincoln. He came
to Kansas in the early days and for
tune smiled upon him. He lived in
Allen county and was surrounded by
many friends. But old age overlook
him, his friends and fortune passed
from him, and the other day he died in
the Sedgwiclx county poorhouse at the
age of s3. Nearly forty years ago Dr.
Phillips was prominent enough to be
the recipient of an unusual honor. His
wife died at Humboldt, and Senator T.
b. Plumb hurried all the way from
Washington to be pallbearer at her
funeral
The Cowley county commissioners
hired man to hunt for tax dodgers
His work resulted in placing on the
tax rolls $45, 900 more property.
An air pressure gasoline lamp ex-
ploded in store at Meade and the
county commissioners promptly pro-
hibited the use of such lamps in the
court house.
A Salina company which puts up a
couple of patent medicines has agreed
to turn over every year to the Kansas
Wesleyan university of that city 10 per
cent of all sales made.
Rev. H. E. Mills, pastor of the First
Congregational church of Fort Scott,
and Mrs. Mills, offered themselves to
the American board of foreign missions
for service abroad, and were rejected
because they were both past 80 years