The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1903-04-24

at Herington caught fire and in an
hours time both building and contents
were destroyed. A lamp was knocked
over into pile of combustibles. The
fire began inside upstairs. Only few
of the available men could be used and
these were deferred by the heat and Sc
clusion of the flames The office, which
is next to the ware7room, was COM
pletely flooded with water, but almost
everything in this room was saved.
The total loss is estimated at about
$4,000. There were nearly $1,000
worth of storage and the damage to
the building was about 81, 00o
ARBoH DAY.-The immense campus
of Friends university in Wichita, was
planted on Arbor day to trees of such
varieties as are known to do well in
Kansas. A year ago James M. Davis
who purchased the building and gave
it to the Friends church, had his land
scape gardener in New York prepare a
plan for decorating the campus and
making it into a veritable garden and
this plan is now being carried out.
MuLvANE RESIGNS R. Null
vane has resigned the presidency of the
Missouri e Kansas Telephone company.
When he became president of the COM
pany 20 years ago it was compar-
atively small affair; now it has 2s,"O4
miles of toll wire, principally "copper"
reaching s93 cities and towns in its
territory. Its gross revenue for the
year ending in January, 1908, reached
81, 39S, 436.5s.
HEREFORDs AND SHoRTHORNs. An
other large pure bred Hereford and
Shorthorn cattle sale has been held at
Manhattan, The highest priced Here
ford bull brought s34o. The entire
herd of 46 head brought $1,000. Most
of the buyers were Kansas men, and
the stock will remain principally in
Wabaunsee, Riley and Geary counties.
GBINsTEAD HAS RECOVERED. Frank
Warner, the negro who attacked Pool
Grinstcad, the editor of the Wathena
Times, a few weeks ago, has been con-
victed of assault with intent to kill.
| Sentence has not been pronounced.
! Mr. Grinstead has recovered. The
| negro was intoxicated and attacked
| Grinstead with razor.
MEMORIAL WINDow.-Th services of
the dedication of the memorial window
in honor of the late George Il. Fair
child, former president of the State
Agricultural college, were held at the
Congregational church of Manhattan.
The window, which is of beautiful
design, was given by Mrs. Fairchild
and number of friends.
|. New CHARTERs.-Two new state
banks were chartered ut one session of
the charter board; one at Dexter and
! one at Logan. The Eureka Gas, Oil and
Mineral company increased its capital
stock from SIS, 1875 to SEQ, 900 and the
Western Star Mill company, of Salina,
has raised its stock limit from 100000
to 500, 600.
PERCHERoNs AND Es.-Regent
j. S. Mcdowell of the state agricul-
tural college, has purchased three span
of Percheron mares from j. w. Robi
son e Son, of El Dorado, and one span
of bay Clyde mares from w. II. Sits,
of Mcpherson, for the college.
COURT House AT ERIE. -Neosho
county held an election TO vote on the
proposition to build new court house
at Erie. The vote was overwhelmingly
in favor of the proposition. The coun-
ty outside of Chanute was practically
solid for the court house.
JEWELL COUNTY GETS ONE.-Con-
gresham Reeder, it is understood, is
practically sure of having the govern
ment put down one of the three wells
promised the Sixth district in Jewell
county.
EASTER HATs.-A dry goods man at
Hutchinson estimated that $40, 900 was
put in Easter hats in Hutchinson alone.
And it rained!
COOPERATIVE ENTERPRISES. There
are two of them in Reno county. One
is creamery company, with $4,000
capital, at Yoder, with 100 stoclihold-
ers; the other is large department
store at Hutchinson, in operation on
the profit sharing plan.
Two THOUSAND EXPECTED. Over
that number are expected to attend
the Y. NJ. C. A. international confer
ence in Topeka on April 80 to May 3.
A special train on the Santa Fe will
come from Chicago for the accommodate
tion of the delegates.
MUNRO WINs.-The district court of
Leavenworth county ordered the war
den of the penitentiary to release John
Munro, an Oklahoma convict, at the
end of five years, upon the showing
that Munro had been given sentence
of eight years when the Oklahoma