The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1902-08-29

OF tne Quantrcll Tdlu on l<dWrchcC'
Business men of Fort Scott prepared
127 floats for the labor day parade.
Washburn college has taken on the
Kansas Medical college as depart
ment.
Lyon county claims to be certain OF
a better crop of apples than it has ever
produced.
Paroled youths from the state re-
formatory broke into hardware store
at Hutchinson.
The Santa Fe has let contract for
$50, 900 enlargement of its passenger
station in Topeka.
A Cimarron jointist was fined $1,000
and sent to Jail $50 days, having been
convicted on Is counts.
St. Francis, way out in the "short
grass" country is said to have weeds on
the townsite 1917 feet high.
The report of the state superinten-
dent will this year embrace statistics
of city schools for the first time.
Every paper coming from towns
where the Buckslsin Bill show stops
has roasts for that travelling fake.
The Santa Fe is soon TO build new
depot at Baldwin. The old depot will
be made over for freight house.
The fifth annual Ohio picnic was
held at Waverly. The attendance was
good considering the rain and mud.
A War dance will celebrate the open
ing of the Pottawatomie Indian school
at Nadeau, Kansas, on September 6.
Lieutenant Ralph Mcdowell, OF Man
haitian, Kan, was drowned at Fort
Clark, Texas, where he was stationed.
DR.. Francis NJ. Phillips is dead at
Kildare, o. T. He was the son of Col
onel William A. Phillips, the founder
of Salina.
Judge Albert II. Horton showed
slight improvement after reaching his
home in Topeka but physicians were
without hope.
The state silk-worm station at Pea
body was unroofed by storm the
other day. 1t hasn't been in use for
plumber of years.
Levi Shaner, one of the wealthiest
men in ottawa, died from stroke Of
paralysis. He was in good health on
the previous day.
At Douglas, Butler county, one young
man is dead and another in Jail charged
with murder; all because there was
whisky at picnic.
1t is said to be probable that the
Santa Fe will put on a number of new
bralxemen soon. There is a great deal
of stock and grain to be moved.
j. b. Callen has been recommended
by Congressman Calderhead to succeed
w. H. Mackey as postmaster at juno
ton City. Callen is now county sur
veyor.
Miss Sarah Eggleston, who died in
California recently, bequeathed forty
acres of land near Washburn college
to the First Presbyterian church of
Topeka.
The express companies are taking
out of Wichita daily over GOO baskets
of tomatoes and ], 200 baskets of grapes.
Shipment of grapes does not last long
while the demand for tomatoes never
lets up.
The Haskell institute will open in
the fall with an enrolment of $50. In
actual attendance, property and equip
ment, the Lawrence World states that
this Indian school is ahead of the one
at Carlisle, Pa.
A notice came to lola from the pen
sion commissioner stating that a pen
sion of S12 month had been granted
to Samuel O'Hara, Twentieth Kansas
soldier, and the date of the notice was
the same as that when O'Hara died.
M. J. Kimmel, county clerk of Morris
county for four years, died at home at
Wilsey on August17, after a months
illness.
The semi-annual distribution of
school fund interest is A cents per cap
tia. In February it was 80 cents,
year ago it was 40 cents and in Febru-
airy, 1901, it was 3S cents.
The Enid, Anthony & Northwestern
railway, it's general attorney says, has
secured right of way from Enid to An
thony, and that the road will be built,
and probably on to Pratt
c. W. Baker, of Bluff City, was the
only Harper county teacher to receive
a first grade certificate this year.
State Superintendent Nelson holds
that the people at annual school meet
ings have the power to decide as to
whether male or female teachers shall