The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1903-09-18

promoting the enterprise meet will
no obstruction, Topeka will be connect
cd with Manhattan and Eureka Lake
by means of an inter-urban electric
railway within tho next year. The
road, as planned, will run through the
Kaw Valley, touching all of the nu
merous towns and small cities along
the river bank between Topeka and
Manhattan.
WIrH LARGEST ENROLMENT. Tho
state normal school opened with a
larger cnrollincnt than last year, which
was at that time the largest the school
ever had. The new $4,000 library,
which is one of the most elegantly
equipped buildings in the state, was
opened for the first time. The main
building of the school has also had
$4,000 worth of repairs done cn it
this summer
TO COLLECT SALOON BILLs-It has
been the practice for collectors with
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worth to go to the fort on pay days.
AT the pay day on September 10 the
saloon keepers rushed to headquarters
with their bills as usual, but they were
told that they would not be allowed on
the reservation to collect bills.
| PENITENTIARY EARNINGS. Warden
e. b. Jewett, of the state penitcntiary,
turned into the state treasury 81, 3O2. so
| representing the cash earnings of the
institution for the month of August
The cash earnings of the penitentiary
range from 81. 200 to $4,000 u month.
The expenses of the institution are
from SIS, 900 to $50, 900 month.
ACCOMPLISHED MUSICIAN. The Uni
versity of Kansas has elected Miss Jean
Bowersocls, daughter of Congressman
j. d. Bowersocls, of Lawrence, us in
structor in violin for the coming year
She succeeds Prof. j. Ii. Farrell, of
Kansas City. Miss Bowersocl, has
studied abroad and is an accomplished
musician.
He NEEDS REsT.-Chcster /. Long,
United States senator, has returned
from Colorado, and, with Mrs Long,
is at Geuda Springs where he is taking
the waters. Senator Longs malady is
is of the stomach chiefly, but he is also
a very tired man, and in addition to
medical treatment he needs rest.
ARKANSAS RIVER WATER The Wal
nut river was up nine and one-half feet
at Arkansas City on September 10 and
still rising. The electric light plant
was prevented from using its power.
The Arkansas river shows a rise of two
feet.
express wagon drivers in Wichita are
charged with theft. They practiced
adding to the amount they collected
for express charges from consignees
and stealing the ovcrchargc
School FURNIrURE.-Attorney Cen
eral Coleman holds that furniture pur-
chased for use in a public school need
not be of a make approved by the
state text book commission
ENTERED TIE HIGH SCHOOL Sew
enty out of seventy-four of the grad.
yates of the eighth grade at Newton
entered the high school. Only four
were ready to go to work.
A KANSAS PIONEER. Major Moses II. |
Neal, pioneer Kansan, died at Chan
dler, o. T., on Sept II. He was agent |
for the Sac and Fox Indians under
President Cleveland
FROM HARTFORD, KAs.-Caleb A. |
Hunt, aged Is, lineman for tele. |
phone company ut Los Angeles, Cali,
was killed by n live wire. He was
from Hartford, Kas.
WANT THE SANTA FE.-A petition is
being circulated in Kiowa county to
get the Santa Fo to extend its line from
Pratt to Grcensburg and Mullinville.
ALL RIGHT BUT LATE.-Pratt or
ganized fair association last week.
FIVE HUNDRED FARMS That num-
Der of Kingman county farms have
changed hands in the last year. These
farms sold for an average OF fully
s., 600, making 81, 600, 900 of new money
in invested in Kingman county real es-
tate. Five years ago the same farms
would not have brought to exceed half
this sum.
DELAYED A MoNTM-On account of
the different contractors dragging the
work at Parsons the state board will
not be able to open the new insane
asylum until about October /.
PooR APPLE CRor.-The yield of
apples in Leavenworth county, where
The mammoth Wellhouse orchards are
located, viii not be sufficient to supply
home consumption. The freeze in
the spring and the wet spell in May
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