The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1902-12-05
KANSAS COMMENT.


ages for re-setting broken bones
badly.
Ten DAYS IN 90 YEARs.--G. ID.
Woods, of Newton, has been in railroad
service twenty years and has not missed
getting in full days work in only ten
days during that time.
VIoLETs BLOOMING. AT Cherokee
violets were blooming during the third
week in November Mercury stood at
at about 70 during the day and went
down to 60 during the night.
INDEPENDENT PHONE MEN.-The
Kansas association of these people Is 10
hold two days meeting in Topeka
during the second week OF January
A company to build trunk lines is to
be formed soon.,
HAVE FIRM FAITH.-Westmor
parties have organized to drill for OIL.
A we'll informed man from Colorado
believes that Pottawatomie county is
the best undeveloped district in Kan
sas if not in the United States.
MEN SCARCE AT ANY PhTCE.-The
section men on the Southern Kansas
division have been given a raise IN
wages from $1.25 to $1.40. Men are
scarce even at this price. Laboring
men are scarce in Ottawa. The new
church. the library and other building
improvements are taking all of the ex-
ira labor.
MILLER CASE CoNTINUED.-The case
of George w. Miller, president OF the
"lO1" live stock ranch, who is charged
with the murder of Santa Fe Detective
Montgomery, is continued until the
March term of district court of Cowley
county and his bond reduced from
$1,000 to $1,000. Miller declares his
innocence of the crime and insisted on
an early trial.
MILLERs HAVE TRoUBLE.-Clay Gen.
ter millers arc experiencing consider
able difficulty in getting the railroads
to take their flour out of town, owing
to the heavy traffic. One miller had a
car lay on the track about twenty days
before the railroad could handle IT.
When an engine finally stopped for
the car the miller had fifteen cars
ready for shipment.
DRILLING AT Neutrality-suspicious.
tractors began drilling on farm a few
miles south of that town for coal.
They are down 35 feet and expect to
20 several hundred feet. A stock COM
pany has been organized to conduct
the work. The gas find at Winfield is
squirting the drillers to extra effort.
The hole is being drilled on line east
and west with the Winfield gas hole.
SOLD CHARITY BADGES. The ladies
who solicited on the streets and in the
stores of Wichita for charity, received
a total of $5O4.63 in one day. There
was no set price, the people who gave
few cents were given badge as glad
" as those who gave dollar. The
money will be divided among the
Kings Daughters, the Wichita Hos,
pital, Children's and Rescue homes.
GENEROUS PASTOR. REV. E. o. Smith
has been the NJ. L. pastor at Leaven
worth for three years and paid off a
church debt of Sc, 500. He is still pur-
suing the same policy he began al
Maple Hill years ago. when he paid of
the debt of the M. E. church there and
would take nothing for his services as
pastor. He has now resigned at Leav
enworth and goes to Omaha. His ole
Maple Hill friends follow his upward
course with pride.
WOULD Buy GAS WELL.-The finance
committee of the Winfield city council
authorized Mayor Cation to place SIS,
600 of city bonds on the market t.
make the purchase of the RACES ga
we'll which "came in" week ago
The well is believed to have a capacity
of one million cubic feet daily.
Boy DRAGGED TO DEATH.-Near An
dover Ralph Boucher, boy, wa
dragged to death by buclSing pony
by having his foot caught in the stir
rup after he was thrown from the sad
die.
MISCHIEF CT MANIAC.-Martil
Auran, a Montgomery county farmer
became raving maniac and set fire t
his barn which was destroyed. II
then tried to burn his house and threat
ened to kill his wife. Sheriff Squire
was called and he took Auran Il
charge.
VERNON OF LARNED.-W. II. Vernon
of Larned, will be stenographer 70
Judge Henry F. Mason, of the suprem
court Vernon was in the speaker
bureau at Republican state headquai
ters during the recent campaign.
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