The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1903-06-19

Valley Interurban Hallway company
with headquarters at Wichita, has
taken state charter. The company
proposes to construct an electric line
from Wichita to Arkansas City, dis
lance of about eighty miles by the
route chosen. Capital stock amount ting
to one million dollars has been sub
scribcd.
| VANDALs IN A CHURCH.-At Ottawa
some vandals broke into the Episcopal
church and drank up the wine which
had been stored away for sacramental
purposes. They also broke into n
closet and took out the sacerdotal robes
of the Clergyman, and with these about
them they engaged in bacchanalian
dance around the altar"
VICTIMS OF WRECK. victims OF
the Santa Fe wreck which occurred at
Stillwell, Kas., in which nine were
killed and ten injured, are reported by
the physician at ST. Joseph's hospital
to be doing well and all will recover
Only five af.the injured remain in the
hospital, the others having been dis
charged.
FLOOD CHANGES HoUsEs.-A man
living in North Topeka did not go back
to look at his property until the flood
was over. Then he found that his
house was gone and much better
dwelling had lodged almost exactly in
the same spot If nobody claims 1T he
will fix it and move in.
FIRST TRAIN ARRIVES. The first
train into Salina from the east for ten
days arrived at Salna over the Mis-.
souri, Pacific. Construction gangs have
repaired the track between Salina and
| Gypsum City and hereafter through
trains will be run on as near schedule
time as possible.
WAS HERE IN "A. Luther Dickerson,
of Atchison county can remember the
| flood of 1874. This writer has known
Lutte" since about 1860 and remembe
of his telling about the IA flood when
talking with him about the extremely
wet winter and spring in that part of
Kansas in 1859.
HoRToN SUPPLIES CIRCUS. Sells &
Downs show was tied up at Horton
for several days by the washouts. The
men were paid off while there, and the
result was greatly increased lot of
trade for the merchants in addition to
the purchase of necessary supplies.
LONG SEWER OIDINANcE. Judging
by the length of the lola sewer Or
diDance published in the Register that
town is going to have miles and miles
of sewers and then some. The ordi-
nance covers five of the Registers long
columns.
DAMAGE AT LAWRENCE. "A conserv-
alive estimate of the actual damage
caused by the flood in that city places
the loss at $1,000 Congressman
Bowersocls was the heaviest individual
loser. His losses are figured at $780,.
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No MAIL TO DELIVER. On the day
set for the Inauguration of free mail
delivery for Concordia there was no
mail to deliver The floods segregated
the town for quite a period.
A WISE Cow. The Reflector states
that a COW belonging to an Abilene
man stood for an entire day with her
front feet in a buggy; only her head
ana shoulders out of water
RAISED SIG, OOo.-At the dedication of
the First NJ. e. church in Emporia the
sum of SIC, 600 was raised; freeing the
organization entirely of debt
SEED IS NEEDED. Farmers and gar
deners who lost their crops in the Kan
sas floods are having difficulty in pro-
curing seeds for replanting.
COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL.
Falls seems certain of securing one for
Chase county. No opposition has de-
veloped.
Ten New TEACHERS. Kansas ami
versty will add ten new teachers to its
corps OF instructors next year.
GRADUATION EXERCISES Orion ac-
count of the death of the Rev Peter
McVicar all of the graduation exercises
to have been held at Washburn college
next week, with the exception of COM
mencement and the baccalaurcate SER
mon, have been declared off.
CENTRAL BRANCH OPENS. That
branch of the Missouri Pacific, which
mas been blocked two weeks by the loss
of one span of it's bridge over the Blue
river, is now opened for traffic. Many
towns that were suffering for provi-
sions will be now supplied.
COULD Nor MEASURE THE Water
The city engineer of Topeka says that
it was impossible to put II pole down
three feet into the currents of water
during the food. lie fears that may
be impossible TO change the current