The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1902-03-28

died on March 10 at Circle City, Alaska
Ottawa is to have street fair, or, as
it is called there, May festival, on
May to o.
Western Kansas school districts and
towns are clamoring to pay off their
bonds that are not due.
John r. Hamilton, of Illinois, has
sold to S. :. Findley, of Wichita, 300
acres of land east of Wichita for sla,-
635.
s. A. Deel, of Baldwin, has been APP
pointed superintendent of the United
States magnetic observatory at Homo
lulu.
Tom Hackney, of Wellington is mis-
sing. He sold his claim at Lawton for
S7OO and has not been seen since Christ
mas
A Lawrence banker says that there
are twice as many notes paid before
they are due as there are renewals
asked for.
Concordia has in use revival tent
with capacity for 16, 900 people, and IT
is regularly filed; so a dispatch from
there asserts
Within few weeks $75 900 worth OF
Geary county lands have changed
hands, and practically all of it has
been taken by home people
A $4,000 fire at Wakeeny swept
lumber yard, three dwelling, two
blacksmith shops, Il livery barn, and
damaged several other buildings.
The State Fair association has levied
so per cent assessment on the capital
stock to be used to erect new grand
stand and make other improvements.
Sumner county commissioners have
given the use of lots the county has
bought for taxes to be used for gardens
by people who have none of their own.
The register of deeds of Sedgvicll
county says that S0per cent of the more
valuable property sold in the county in
the past ten years was bought by home
people.
Mrs. Sarah b. Adams, mother of
James Barton Adams, the verse writer
of the Denver Post, died at her home
in Topeka, on March IS. She was o.
years old.
The Winfield city council has accept
ed Mr.. Carnegie's proposition to give
SIS, 900 for library there conditioned
upon the city's giving $1,000 year for
its support.
The Rev. Mr.. Soderman, of Linds-
borg, who has been missionary in
China for several years, supported by
the church at Lindsborg, died in the
Orient recently.
Oscar Saunders, farmer near Downs,
found his pocket book in his hay field
with two five dollar bills in it, in good
preservation. He lost his pocketbooli
a year and half ago.
Editor Hanna, of the Salina Repub-
lican, has started movement for the
construction of an auditorium at Sa-
lima His plan is to raise funds by
popular subscription
Former Lieut.. Gov. A. j. Felt has
been given pension of S24 month,
and Geo. II. Evans, the Topeka con-
4. re
$50 month pension.
j. L. CLANCY, veteran groceryman,
of Fort Scott, died from hiccoughs, the
attack lasting for several days, All
sorts of doctors tried to give him re-
lief and failed to do so.
There are 81 appeal liquor cases on
the docket for the April term OF the
Shawnee county district court, and
Judge Hazen has set apart three weeks /
of the term for hearing them. He also
declares that every case will be tried
by jurors drawn from the jury box, no
substitutes to be allowed on the panel
A Clearwater doctor wanted skull
and secured human head from med
ical college at st. Louis. The doctor
buried the head in manure heap to
effect its decomposition, where it was
forked out by man who was hauling
out the manure. A sensation resulted.
A Topeka truss manufacturing COM
pany now has 5000 agencies in the Uni
ted States and last year shipped their
goods to Canada, Mexico, New Zealand,
and the Philippine Islands. Their
trade covers every state and territory
in the union.
Phillips county assessors report the
acreage of wheat larger than ever be-
fore and that all Of it is in fine shape
except the volunteer wheat. They say
the prospects for a large yield were
never better in March.
Western Kansas is handicapped in