The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1903-06-26

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SO, 900 in money hid in the garnet, was
destroyed by fire. Thauer had come
to the picnic and it is said his neice was
curling her hair to come when the
lamp exploded, burning the house.
Thauer Is the same party who was
robbed few weeks ago by tramps of
$500.
| KANsANs AT HEPPNER.-Thc family
of William Krugg, including the faith
err, mother and four children, all of
whom were drowned in the food at
Heppner, Oregon, used to live in To-
pelsa. Mr.. Krugg was brother OF
Bert Krugg, an employee in the Santa
Fe water service. William Krugg was
at one time motorneer on the Topeka
street railway.
TRACK WAS CRIBBED. of Fort
Riley 1000 feet of new track had to be
put in. Three hundred feet of it was
laid on crbbing built of ties. The
roadbed has completely disappeared at
many places. For days the men who
were employed in this work were in
the water to their knees and sometimes
to their neclss.
OTHER LEGIsLATION.-In 1882 the
special session of the legislature, the
"foot and mouth disease" session, i'm
mediately upon converting adopted
joint resolution that no other business
be transacted and the legislature stuck
to it. This special session, it is likely,
will follow that precedent.
WAS IN GOTH KANSAS. Deweys
are thorough cowmen, good riders and
dead shots and Clyde Wilson, one of
the prisoners, was sergeant-major in
the twentieth Kansas. Mcbride, the
other prisoner, is Leavenworth man.
His wife lives on the Dewey ranch and
is herself crack shot
NEGRO FREIGHT HANDLERS. Two
coaches passed through Topeka which
were filled with negro laborers
on their way to Kansas City to take
the places of the Santa Fe freight han
dlcrs who went out on strike several
days ago. About twenty-five men
were secured at Topeka.
THE GOVERNMENTS Loss. AT Leav-
enworth the 600 acre farm at the fed
eral penitentiary was swept bare of
the growing crops by the floods. War
den McClaughry says that the property
destruction in Kansas was much great
er than Galveston suffered by the great
tidal flood.
THREE FROM CoNCoRDIA. Among
the victims of the cloudburst at Hepp-
ner, Ore, were three former residents
of Concordia, Mr.. and Mrs. Jacob Daw-
son, who went to Oregon four or five
years ago, and II. NJ. Geiger, a marble
cutter.
FEST PASSENGER TRAIN. -The first
passenger train on the Union Pacific
since May 25 arrived at Junction City
on June II, and the first train of any
kind on the same road came in from
the east on the same evening.
Fort SCcTr SENDS MoRE.-The COM
mercial club of Fort Scott has sent
81, 900 to the state relief fund and has
shipped carload of clothing, bedding
and provisions to Kansas City, Kas
The KANSAS WEsLEYAN.-T. w.
Roach, ex-mayor of Salina and now
the head of the Kansas Wesleyan Bust
ness college, has been chosen president
of the Kansas Wesleyan university
Took THIRTY DAYs.-The flood
caught the 10th battery at St Mary's
where it was detained II days. 1t was
marching to Fort Riley with four seven
inch guns.
HELD UP FOR A TINE. The construc-
ton of the federal building at Law
renee is held up for an indefinite time
at the request of Congressman Bower
sock.
APPLE CRoP.-State Horticulturist |
Barnes looked over the apple crop about
Wichita and said it was all right.
INSURANCE Co. MUST Go.-The state
superintendent of insurance proposes
to drive the Wayne Mutual Life Insur-
ance company, of indianapolis, Ind,
out of the state. The company is do
ing business in Kansas without Ii
cense. 1t is probable the local agents
of the company will be prosecuted.
SHORT ONE DAY.-Thc inmates of
the Soldiers home at Leavenworth had |
a little taste of old war time trouble |
during the water tie-up. On account
OF the inability to get supplies they |
were on short rations for one day.
SIMULTANEOUS STATEMENTS. "A call |
is made upon national banks for a
statement of their conditions oil June
Q. State Bank Commissioner Albaugh |
will issue call at once on the state
and private banks for statement of