The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1902-12-26
KANSAS COMMENT.

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FOURTH DISTRICT FIGUREs.-In 1898
Congressman j. M. Miller's majority
was 5000; in 1900, $500, and in 1902 1t
was 6,i47.
DICK WALKER BETTER. Col. X. H..
Walker, who has been very ill at the
home of his brother, George, in Topeka,
is much better and will soon be able to
be up.
AT FORGE so YEARs.-James L. Mar
cum, who for so years has worked in
his blacksmith shop in Troy, is dead.
He worked up to within two months OF
his death.
WILL SELL FAIR GROUNDS. - The
Brown county fair grounds will be sold
and the fair, which has been given an
nually for thirty-seven years, will be
discontinued.
CHASED WITH CORN Doctors. OF
tawa imposes a tax of So a day or $50 a
year on all astrologers, clairvoyants,
fortune tellers and mind readers; same
rates for corn doctors
GRAIN INSPECTION FEEs.-State Grain
Inspector Northrup turned So, 7O6 into
the stats treasury as fees collected by
his department during the month OF
November. His expenses were So, 500.
GRANDMOTHER AT 33.-The other day
there was born to Mrs. Burgess, of At
Gibson, baby girl. Mrs. Burgess is
16 years old and her husband is %
The baby's grandmother, Mrs. Coons,
is SO.
ENGINEER LOSES AN EYE.-Just after
Engineer Z. II. Hurley, of the Santa
Fe, had taken charge of his locomotive
at Dodge City, lubricator broke, a
piece of glass penetrated his left eye
and put out the sight.
NEW BUILDINGS FOR Old c. w.
Hale, a hardware dealer of Eureka, has
purchased several frame buildings
south of the postoffice and will put up
a $4,000 structure in their stead. Work
Will begin January 1.
WAS LINCoLN's PARTNER Captain
Chas. j. Cannon, of Wichita, is dead at
the age of IA years. At one time he
was junior partner in the office OF
Abraham Lincoln in Springfield, Ill.
During the war of the rebellion he was
ordnance officer under General Grant
during that officers control of the west
ern department
MAKING SUCCESS OF CATTLE.
ers of thoroughbred cattle in Kansas
say that the Indian cattlemen Of Okla
homa, Indian Territory and the ives
tern states are among their best GUS
toners. The Indians in these states
and territories are rapidly turning
their attention to the cattle industry
and are making success of it.
Aucn SNow.-A dispatch sent out OF
Kansas asserted that after the recent
snow fall there was not an acre In Kan
sas which was not covered by snow.
Jewell county reports eight inches; be-
tween seven and eight inches is said to
have fallen at Kinsley, and an Abilene
dispatch says that Dickinson county
had a seven-inch blanket Of snow.
Ice VIoTIMs.-Rev. Bernard Kelly i,
also laid up at his home in Topeka as a
result of fall on the ice. Mrs. Lou
Stair, aged "a years, sustained frac-
ture of a hip joint by fall. She slip
ped and fell down a short fight Of steps
at her home. l.. c. Betz, manager OF
the Ralston Yeast company, was taken
10 hospital with broken right knee
cap.
KANSAS FLOUR EXPORTED. The Sc
curity mills of Abilene shipped out
probably the largest car of -four ever
sent from this state for export. 1t wen,
over the Santa Fe and carried 500 sacks
weighing 10 pounds each. The flour
went via Galveston to Rotterdam and
was part of a large shipment from thi,
mill.
IETERURBAN LINE.-Worlk has begun
on the interurban electric line between
Mcpherson and Arkansas City. Ora
ding is commenced from the north Limits
of Wichita toward Valley Center.
GETTING COOP STOCK Several Indian
cattlemen from Montana have been in
Greenwood county during the last wcel
buying registered Galloway bulls. The
Indians say that the Galloways com,
nearer filling the place and can easier
adapt themselves to changes in climate
on the northwestern ranges
NORMAL SCHOOL FEEs.-S. H. Dodge
treasurer of the board of regents of tn,
state normal school at Emporia, ha'
turned into the state treasury $1,000 il
fees collected from students for tuition
in special courses.
GIFT TO ORPHANs-Colonel Philip +
Mullin. representing Armour's, had ;