The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1903-08-14
KANSAS COMMENT.

uonal and United Brethren churches
of Salina have united.
LOST VALIsE.-Mrs. w. L. Davis
was robbed of $3.50 in gold and small
err amount of silver at the depot in
Cherryvale.
Is A PREACnER.-The negro tailor
who killed man at Larned is a preach.
er. The coroners' jury gave verdict
of self defense.
Or HyDRoPHoBIA.-Fran Kinna'
man, 16-year old boy of Coffeyvillc,
died of hydrophobia, caused by the bite
of dog inflicted two months ago.
Buy lie Roy BoNDs.-Thc state
school fund commissioners have pur-
chased $40, 900 in bonds of lie Roy city
and LIE Roy township, in Coffey county.
Missouri PACIFIC PAYs.-That road
has compromised good portion of the
claims for damages resulting from the
crossing accident with the Santa Fe
near Hutchinson.
SIX MORE. -That number Of railway
mail clerks not now living in Wichita
have been instructed to make that city
their headquarters. Two of the six
are new and additional appointees.
GERMAN AND LATIN. Sumner
county high school trustees have en-
ployed George M. Sherrard, of Atchi-
son, to teach the German and Latin
classes in the school the coming term.
BURLINGAME WILL BoIE.--A COM
pany of local capitalists has been or
ganized to bore for gas and oil. Ithas
raised enough money already to bore
two wells and the machinery is now on
the road.
To WEAR SUNFLowERs. To conform
to the law enacted last winter desig-
mating the sunfower as the official
Kansas flower, Adjutant General KEEL
sew has commanded the officers of the
national guard to wear the sunfiower
device on the collars of their full dress
uniforms.
WILL LAY HIM UP-Ed Key, who
has been in the railroad business for
fifteen years and never received an in
Jury, fell from street car in Wichita
while going to work and suffered
severe sprain of the tendon of his left
wrist that will put him off duty for at
least two months He is employed by
the Missouri Pacific.
SECTION LINE oADs.-The legislature
enacted law declaring all the section
lines in Phillips and several other
counties in the northwestern part of
the state to be public highways and
providing that the roads should be go
feet wide. Many of the roads are only
forty feet wide, and the attorney gen.
eral was asked about it. He holds
that the law applies only to roads not
yet established
NEW GRADES FOR GRAIN.-The state
grain inspection commission have
changed the rules for grading. No.
hard wheat shall be required to weigh
6? pounds to the bushel instead of 81.
Badly stack burned wheat is to be
added to the rejected class. No l red
wheat, weight same as No. hard, re-
lection same as No. 1 hard wheat. A
new grade of corn is to be established,
with classic cation between No. and
mo grade" The grading of kafir corn
has been changed from No /, 2, and
4, mixed, to No. 1, 2, and a, white,
and No. /, 2, 8 and 4, red. A weight
test has been Established for oats. No.
l oats shall be required to test 80
pounds to the bushel and No. . shall
be required to test 9s pounds to the
bushel.
CoNCRETE BRIDGES. Discouraged by
the frequency with which the county
bridges are washed out by the high
waters the Dickinson county commits.
sioners are planning to experiment
with concrete arch bridges They will
build the first one in Solomon City.
TUE BIGGEST HAUI@-The officers OF
Reno county made pulling OF til
Joints. The county attorney had elev
en- deputy shcriffs, one at each Hutch
inson joint They got Is persons and
hauled away five dray loads of beer,
whisky and wine.
CHANCE IN SCHOOL CENSUS 1t for
merlv included all who would reach
five years during the coming school
and also those who had been twenty
one during the year past. The result
was that the numbers were large. The
new law requires the exact birth date
and cuts out all not of the required age.
STOLE HoRsEsHozs. "A member OF
the Leavenworth city council, who has
a blacksmith shop, is under arrest
charged with sealing. -four kegs OF
from the government store
house at Fort Leavcnworth.
GIVEN WITH DISSEE. -lsaac Peck, an