The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1903-01-16
KANSAS COMMENT.


ing 1902 recorded As divorces and EGO
marriages.
FELL Down A AFT.-FranlS Baker.
farmer living near Independence fell
down an elevator shaft in an imple-
ment store and died from his injuries.
LIBRARY RECEpTIoN.-At a formal
New Years reception the new public
library rooms were first thrown open
TO the people of the city of Abilene.
Miss Ida Romig, K. S. U. graduate,
10 the librarian.
KANSAS APPOINTMENTS. The presi-
dent has appointed the following post
masters in Kansas: William G. Pal
mer, JEWELL Caddie Smith, Lebanon;
Joseph ii. Wooden, Mankato; Sydney
w. Gould, Weir.
DooroRs Neutrality-suspicious. from
ten counties in that part OF Kansas
met in Concorda and organized the
third district auxiliary of the Kansas
State Medical Society, with DR.. Saw
hill, of Concordia, president.
OK CENTRAL BRANCH The heavy
business being done along the Central
Branch road has compelled the Western
Union to string an extra wire as far
west as Concordia, making four wires
between Blue Rapids and Atchison.
MORE MODERN COAL CHUTEs. 9.
Stiff's force of carpenters having fin
ished the coal chute at Syracuse, has
gone to Lamar to build one. From
Lamar he goes to Garden City to put
in modern chute. The Lakin chute
will then be torn out.
DEATH OF Mrs. Dr.. HEWITT. Mrs.
Lulu S. Hewitt died at Topeka on jan
uary 7. She was daughter OF the
Rev. DIR. McCabe, SO long a Topeka
pastor, and her husband was president
Of the Presbyterian college of Emporia.
Of which Mrs Hewitt was a member
of the faculty. Her sister Martha
is now q member Of the faculty.
NEW Rock ISLAND DEPOT.-The
ground has been surveyed at Salina
for q New Rock Island depot to be
erected soon. The building will be on
the site of the present station. The
present depot will be moved and used
as a freight house. This Improvement
by the Rock Island is the first of many
railroad improvements to be made in
Salina this year.
AN ANCIENT CUNT is claimed that
the gun which discharged the first shot
at the battle of Bunker Hill is the
property of Samuel N. Simpson, OF
Kansas City, Kas. He is grandson
OF the Revolutionary soldier, John
Simpson, of Deerfeld, N. H., who fred
the shot in violation of the order,
"don't shoot until you see until you
can see the whites of their eyes"
DOUBLED THEIR RECEIPTs.-The
Kansas City Journal says that north
eastern Kansas horticulturists who
sent their pear crop into cold storage
last fall are now in clover When the
crop was picked pears were worth "a. so
a barrel. Now they are worth so and
the price is still advancing. Several
farmers have made from $4,000 70
IS, 900 each by holding their pears.
ABOUT ESQ MEN.-The Missouri and
Kansas Telephone company is string
ing six wires from Wichita to Fort
Scott via FL Dorado. Another extern
sion under way is direct line to
Woodward, Okla, through Alva and
many other towns. Another is line
from FL Dorado to lola and one from
South Haven to Geuda Springs In
this work there are employed % gangs
with an average of IA men.
COAL FROM THE PENITENTIABY.-1t
takes close to 5000 tons of coal each
month to supply the various state in
stitutions. Warden e. b. Jewett OF
the state penltentiary reports that uur'
lug the month of December he had sup
pliod the state institutions with 49,
sos bushels of coal valuei at about
SIS, 200.
MORE PROMPT TAX PAYING.-County
Treasurer Philips, of Shawnee county,
finds that there was $4,000 more paid
in taxes before the end Of the year
than in 1901.
INDIAN GIRLS VICTORIOUS The
Haskell Indian girl basket ball team
won from the Topeka high school team
on the Haskell court by score OF %
tos. Il was fast and hard game
from the start, but the locals had all
the best Of it. They were faster than
their opponents and had faculty OF
always getting hold of the ball.
RAINFALL IEcREAsE.-The annual
report OF DIR. Frank Snow on Kansas
weather conditions notes that 1902 was
exceeded in rainfall only by the ye RS