The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1903-01-23
KANSAS COMMENT,

Pringle, of Bnrlingame, was the choice
for speaker in caucus of the Republi-
can members.
SUNDAY TnEATERs. Judge Hazen
OF the Shawnee county district court,
has rendered decision declaring in
valid the city ordinance prohibiting
Sunday theaters in Topeka.
OLD SOLDIERS Nor THERE. Ed Ellet
of lei Dorado, who has attended every
Inauguration in Kansas for 80 years,
says, "thc old soldiers are out of it,
He sat in the Copeland for two hours
the other day and in all that, time saw
only two G. A. r. buttons.
New SANTA FE SURvEY.-It is re-
ported from Dodge City that Santa
Fe surveying gang is working south
west from that place. 1t was talked
that it was for cutoff from Dodge
City to Trinidad, before it was reported
that the surveyors were at work in
Beaver county, Oklahoma.
For SCHoCI. CONSOLIDATION. -Sent-
ment in favor of the wholesale CONSOLE
dation of rural schools is spreading
rapidly. 1t was the chief topic dis
cussed by the Kansas teachers. 1t was
shown that in Ellsworth county, where
the system has qeen adopted, the effiic-
iency of the schools has been improved
greatly. One of the strongest points
in favor of it is that the per cent of at
tendants is larger than in the district
school.
CONTRACT For GAS WELL.-The Ar
kansas City council has let u contract
to ). j. Gilbert to furnish that city
with q gas well or series of wells which
will produce 1900, 900 cubic feet of gas
per day. The work will be done by a
company composed of local capitalists
and will be commenced within twenty
days. This is only the preliminary to
systematic hunt for gas and when it
is found it will require several times
this amount to supply the city.
KANSAS WANTS Warden
e. b. Jewett has asked the Illinois au-
thorities to turn Estelle, the noted out
law, over to Kansas. Estelle, while
serving u life sentence here for murder
escaped. Later, he held up train in
Illinois and was captured few days
g
for Illinois to go to the expense of CIV
ing him a trial." said Jewett. 1--WE
can hold him for life in Kansas and
that ought to satisfy Illinois,"
SALE OF FEEDERS. Richard Holton,
of Haven, sold to L. w. Robinson, of
Towanda, 500 feeders coming four
years old. Mr.. Robinson had been
buying feeders at the Union stoclsyards
in Wichita and when the cattle came
too slow to suit Mr. Robinson some of
the commission men put him on the
track of Mr.. Holton's herd. The feed
ers were sold for 81 per hundred and
the parties to the trade think that
when the cattle are delivered Mr.. Rob-
inson will have to write his check for
something like $4,000.
COUNTY NORMAL INSTITUTES State
Superintendent Dayhoff has arranged
for four series of county normal insti-
tutes during the coming year in order
to accommodate the teachers. The
first series will commence May 25 and
and end June 10. 1t is expected that
the teachers who usually work in the
harvest fields during the summer will
take this course. The second series
will begin June 1 and end June 20,
the third will begin June 90 and end
July "a, while the fourth will begin
July 81 and close August 81.
KILLED BY HIS HORSE.
Thompson, of Douglas county, G5 years
old was kicked and stamped to death
by one of his own horses which was
running loose.
A CHCRcH AT AUcTIoN.-The build
ing belonged to the Methodist Protest
ant church of Fort Scott and was sold
by the sheriff and bid in by the mort
cages for $500.
INCREASE PRIcE.-The coal mining
companies of Leavenworth have in
creased the price of coal so cents per
ton within the last month.
STATE SHORT OF CoAL.-Warden L.
b. Jewett is having considerable trou-
bic in keeping the various state insti-
tutions supplied with coal None of
them have large reserve supplies and
should there be a break down at the
mine, purchases would have to be made
on the open market Inability to Sc
cure cars when needed, the increased
consumption of the state institutions,
greater difficulty in getting coal out Of
Abe penitentiary mine and the lack of
any means of storing reserve supply
of coal are the causes of the trouble.