The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1902-03-14


The Parsons bucket shop is dead. A
disastrous deal caused the fatality.
Edward S. Luthi, a Salina boy is as
sistant chief of police at Manila, p. l.
Nordica gave Bethany college at
Lindsborg a present of $500 after the
concert.
The Winfield police court has fined
one man 81, 500 and another 81, 400 for
selling liquor.
Wholesalers say that more snuff is
sold in Lindsborg than in any other
town in the state.
The Lanyon Zinc Co. IS rolling mill at
La Harpe has commenced running.
The first in Kansas.
Chas. Evans, of Sheridan county, has
succeed Cy. Anderson as register OF
the Colby land Office.
Mrs. Carrie Kearney is in the Oswego
Jail for want of bail, on charge of aid
ing prisoners to make a plot to escape.
Old soldiers are complaining that the
state encampment is set Tor the week
before pension day. Many could not
attend then.
Topeka drug stores are not selling
half the liquor they did before the wide
open disregard of law policy was adopt
ed for the saloons.
Judge A. A. Carnahan, of Concordia,
died on March at the age of Ga years.
Judge Carnahan was man who was
held in affection by very many Kan
sans
Contract will be let on March 20 for
the main building for the branch nor
NAL school on the Fort Hays reserva-
ton: the building to be completed by
September /.
The establishment of an experiment
station by the agricultural college will
probably cause the abandonment of
of the state forestry farms at Fort
Dodge and Ogallah.
Wellington druggists pay the city
500 year for selling whisky, and if
they sell beer they must pay $500. Five
drug stores are paying and another
with woman proprietor is circulating
a petition.
III. II. Palmer, South Dakota ed
itor, is visiting his mother at Irving.
Kan, from whom he has been lost for
20 years. Mrs. Palmer is one of the
heirs of the immense estate of Henry
Dolan, the Brooklyn millionaire.
Louis Klingbell, of Fort Scott, who
was German soldier was on guard at
the palace when Prince Henry was
born. Later he saw the baby in it's
mothers arms while the present EN-
peror, little tad, was Juggling at her
skirts.
Mrs Caroline Clark, the eldest white
woman resident of Kansas, died at her
home at Hammond, March 4, aged 81
years. She came to Kansas in 1898 and
located at Fort Leavenworth. During
the civil war she was with the Sixth
Kansas cavalry and was known as the
mother of the regiment.
Workers in Topeka laundries were
forming labor union. One of the
laundry firms has been dividing profits
above a stated amount among its 46
employees. The past year this added
an average of five weeks to the salaries
paid. The firm notified these people
that as they were about to enter an
in which they would take
a greater interest than in the work of
the firm, the division of profits would
cease. The people voted As to l to stay
at their work on the old plan. Other
men do not object to the union
but say they will not discharge any
one for joining; if, however, they find
cause to discharge anyone they will
do so without asking the advice of the
union.
The Twentieth Kansas has had more
of it's members commissioned in the !
regular army than any other regiment
which served in the Spanish war.
Little River township of Reno county |
issued S93, 900 in bonds to get rail
road. They were 30 year bonds draw
ing per cent interest The township |
learned that they could refund the
bonds at ~ per cent. The county |
owns the bonds and will not let go; so |
the township has sued the county for
the privilege of paying the bonds off
The case is now in the supreme court. |
A farmers wife of Stafford county |
saved the household from lightning |
rod graft of 5000 by using her shot gun
to stampede the grafters.
The library at Kansas university has
more than $1,000 bound volumes; re-
ceives 544 periodicals and learned So
ciety publications, and 16O Kansas