The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1902-08-22

life taken only Ave hours sleep out OF
the "a.
| The merchants of Junction City have
all cut out the premium stamp from
their business.
Assessors returns give Geary county
10, 695 people; over half of them living
in Junction City.
Miss Bertha NJ. Rowley, Of Topeka,
has been appointed typewriter at the
| Ell Reno land office.
President Harris has appointed Craig
Harris, son of Senator Harris, as a
cadet at West Point.
A shirt factory in Wichita has built
up a'trade of between thirty and forty
thousand dollars year.
| And the Santa Fe has also done
away with class rates between Wichita
and the Mississippi river.
Kansas was well represented at Coun-
/ Gil Bluffs, Iowa, at the reunion of the
army of the Philippines.
Governor Stanley has issued the
usual formal proclamation for observ-
ance of Labor Day, September 1.
The eight acres of potatoes grown at
the industrial school for girls will turn
out about 300 bushels to the acre.
A portion of Captain John Seaton's
foundry at Atchi,on is burned. The
fire did not stop the work at the foun-
dry.
Prof. G. NJ. Brink, of Kalamazoo,
Mich, has been elected to the chair of
literature at the state agricultural coll
lege.
j. L. Jones, of near Lane, lost two
cows by lightning. They were lying
with their heads almost under wire
fence.
Ex-SpealSer and ex-Judge Steve j.
Osborn has left Salina to become law
partner of Henry c. Dooley, of Coffey-
vile.
In the Marshall county Republican
convention Coroner Boyakin, who y'96
years old, made speech. He has held
Office for 80 years.
During July there we're issued in
Reno county three marriage licenses.
There were nine petitions for divorce
filed during that month.
Manhattan held special election
upon the issue of $4,000 of bonds to
build city hall. The proposition
carried by majority of 113. There
were $50 votes cast.
President Ernest r. Nichols, of the
Kansas State Agricultural college, has
been selected for the position of presi-
dent of the Rhode Island College of
Agriculture and Mechanics Arts at
Kingston.
Miss AIDA Billings and her sister
Pearl, were struck by lightning while
in bed at Cawker City. Pearl was
killed instantly and AIDA died within
injury but the house and contents were
a total loss.
The new Friends church near Clafin
was dedicated free of debt. The church,
supplied with the necessary furniture
and seats, cost about S1,4OO, and is
neat structure. The Friends society
is quite a strong organization in that
part of Barton county.
Roland Wiley, the father of Mrs.
Castle, who was killed by Jessie Nor
rison, is travelling man, and this fact
is lining up large percentage of the
travelling men against the subscriptions
by members of that guild to raise
fund in Miss Morrison's interest
Expert workmen who came from In
diana to the Independence glass factory
say they were induced to come to Kan
sas by the assurance that there would
be no open saloons to come in contact
with, and that they would have first
class school and church privileges.
A Reno county alfalfa raiser says
that IA acres devoted to that crop will
bring in better returns than 100 acres
of prairie hay land.
A Wichita man proposes to sue one
of the telephone companies of the city
for running trees which he set out years
ago and had cared for with love for
them.
Colorado officials held meeting to
prepare to fight the case of Kansas
versus Colorado in the matter of the
use of irrigation water. 1t was de-
cided to contest the case to the last.
J. Fl. Mcmahon, the originator OF
the Independent telephone system in
Kansas, died at Alma of creeping par
alysis. He was AZ years old. He
started the Independent telephone
business about seven years ago.
Col. j. c. Gordon, proprietor of the
Copeland hotel, was painfully injured
while on his way to Topeka from st.