The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1902-11-21


that should he die first it should go to
II charitable ''home" at Washington,
d. C. The matter has been in litiga-
ton until it has reached the supreme
court. The young mans heirs contend
that as he was Il good swimmer he must
have survived his mother, and this is
the only point in the case.
CONCERT FOR TEACHERS. Fully 40
voices from the musical department OF
Bethany college at Lipdsborg will take
part in chorus on Wednesday night
of holiday week before the State Teach
ers' association at Topeka. The pro-
gram will be of high order and in
clude quartettes and both instrumental
and vocal solos.
TURNIPs FOR STOCK. farmers
of Brown county raise turnips for
stock feed. Morgan Walters has raised
1000 bushels from seventeen acres.
Ae says that cattle like turnips better
than they do corn and will fatten fast
er on the turnips. The turnips are
left in the ground and dug only as
they are fed.
HEAD END COLLISION. 1t took eight
hours to clear the wreck at Perry,
Kansas, between freight trains of the
Rock Island and the Union Pacific.
In the meantime the trains of both
those lines used the Santa Fe tracks
between Topeka and Kansas City. No
one was hurt.
SECOND CROP APPLES -David D.
Kailor, whose farm adjoins Wichita,
exhibited samples of second crop of
apples and said some of his trees are
now in bloom. Mr. Kailor has har-
vested is tons of alfalfa from q acres
of land this season.
WOMEN BANK OFFIcERs-An lola
woman, Mrs. M. e. Northrup, is presi-
dent of the Northrup National bank
there; and Mrs Lizzie Hartman is vice
president of the Bank of Allen county.
LIGHTS BUT Nor WATER. Resident
of Burlinga:ne voted in favor of issuing
bonds for the purpose of putting in
electric lights, but turned down the
proposition to put in waterworks.
COOPERATIVE TELEPHONES. AT IIia-
watha there is a movement for putting
in another telephone exchange on a
cooperative plan. Actual cost is to be
prorated among its subscribers.
AGAINST HEDGE LAw.-Harvey coun-
ty voters cast 631 votes for the adop-
ton of the hedge law and 2,007 against
it. Every precinct in the county gave
majority against it.
Snow STORM UP NORTH. The north
west part of Kansas, along the Rock
Island has had snow storm. There
was two-inch fall at Bellevlle which
melted at once.
ASSISTANT SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENT,
County Superintent Swingle, of Riley
county, will be first assistant to State
Superintendent of Schools l. L. Day
hoff.
AFTER A zinc SMELTER. -Neodesha
is negotiating for a 500, 600 zinc smelt-
en- The city holds oil lands and leases
and they figure in the bargaining.
WHERE ARE THE BooKs.-Winield is
wrestling with the question, where
are the books to fill the Carnegie Ii
brary to come from?
IT STILL LIvEs.-The annual meet
ing of the Kansas State Grange will be
held at Lyndon on December Oil.
SENATOR INGALLS, GRAVE. The
grave of the late John J. ingalls, will
be marked by native boulder deposit
ed in Kansas soil in the glacial period.
This will be done in obedience to a
letter written in the senate chamber at
Washington, December 10, 1890, to
Mrs. Ingalls, in Atchison.
SENATOR INGALLS, BROTHER. Rob
ert Morris ingalls,, brother of the
late John j. ingalls,, died at hospital
in Boston. Mr. Ingalls, was president
of the Standard Fire Escape company,
and was 6j years old.
SHORT HORN SALE.-Groom Bros,
raisers of fine registered range Short
horn cattle, in Texas, will hold sale
of some of their cattle in Wichita De-
cember L. II. Il. Groom, member OF
the firm, has completed the arrange
ment for the sale This sale will be
the first one of its kind ever held in
Wichita.
SIXTY DETECTIVE BALLOTS. In one
precinct in Kingman county sixty de-
fective ballots were thrown out, and
forty-seven of these were cast by Re-
publicans.
PosToFFICE RoBRED. The postofiicc
at Staffordvillc, Chase county, which
was in hardware store, has been
robbed of $50 &C in money orders an
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