The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1902-04-04

Governor Stanley has named Friday,
April A, as Arbor Day for Kansas.
Eureka is to vote in April on building
! n new slb. 900 school house, of brick or
stone.
! A. N. Staait has sold his ranch
$40 acres in Franklin county, to local
men for Sl5, 900.
Sixty-four dollars an acre has been
paid recently for 125 acres in Park
township, Sedgwick county.
The police of Winfield claim to have
driven 40 hoboes out of the town in
one round up. They started north.
Lee Watson, the only son OF j. H.
Watson, of Parsons, was killed by con-
tact with live wire while being hazed
by his school class.
John w. Haughey, of Wellington,
has received his commission as hsh
commissioner of Kansas. The place
pays 81, 600 year.
A Topeka greenhouse man has been
shipping asparagus to New York City.
For little punches about the size OF
your wrist, he receives 81 dozen.
S. III. Hoyt has sold his ranch in
jackson county, known as the Cleming-
shire ranch, to j, p. Larsh, Nebraska
speeulator. The price was $4,000.
Arthur Linn, a young single man,
was smothered to death while working
at the salt mines at Kingman, caused
by a cave-in of the bins in warehouse.
The body of General Leavenworth
will be removed from Delhi, New York,
and buried at Fort Leavenworth, Dec
Grafton day. General Leavenworth
died over so years ago.
Mcpherson is chosen as the location
for cooperative wholesale grocery
house, organized by retail grocers of
that district, dividends to be paid them
in proportion to their purchases
The Continental Creamery company
expects to pay out this year in Kansas
one and a half million dollars to farm
ers for their milk. The company pays
S975, 1000 to Dickinson county farmers
alne
Kansas contains more old soldiers
than any other state in the union and
the pension agency at Topeka disburses
more money every month in the way OF
pensions than any other agency in the
country.
The Rev. e. A. Hoyt, preacher at
tending the M. f. conference at Arkan-
sas City, was seriously hurt by being
thrown from wagon in which he was
riding with his brother to the home of
the latter.
The Rev. Granville Lowther, while
on trial for heresy at the M. d. con-
ference in session at Arkansas City,
was proffered acquittal on the condi-
ton that he would not preach the truth
as he saw it. He refused, saying that
his convictions were honestly held by
him.
J. L. Norris, who was visiting his
cousin near Furley, Sedgwick county,
having come with his brother from
Harris, ILL.,, in the hope of quieting his
decisions, developed insanity and was
to have been taken in charge. When
parties went to his room for that pur-
pose he shot through the door at them
and later shot himself dead
The bureau of forestry of the depart
ment of agriculture has sent men to
measure the growth made by the ca
talpa trees on the Yaggy farm in Reno
county. The catalpa forest on the
farm consists of 44O acres, planted close
enough to shoot the growth upward.
The first posts were cut last year;
an s0-acre tract was thinned out and
thousands of posts were sold from it.
The great railroad companies are
watching this forest, being deeply ir-
terested in catalpa culture, and are es-
pecially interested in Mr. Yaggy's
grove as it is the most noted catalpa
forest in the United States
City Marshal Metz of Eudora, was
wounded by shot by Clyde Hughes
whom he had arrested for attempted
burglary, while he was searching his
prisoner. Hughes got away but he
carried with him in his leg bullet
sent in his direction by the marshal.
Mayor Parker, of Topeka, was as
saulted with horsewhip while in his
Office by Miss somebody, IS years old.
The Miss declared she would next at
tack Governor Stanley and may do so
if the insanity regulations are slow of
application to the case.
The executive council has appointed
three assistant state mine inspectors as
follows: Peter Braidwood, of Leaven-
worth, for the Leavenworth district;