The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1903-04-17


lot was taken and the vote stood: Lane
SIS; Pomeroy SO; Marcus j. PARROT, 40
| F. p. Stanton, 81; NJ. w. Delahay, q;
S. ID. Houston, !; S. A. Kingman, 8;
A. j. Isaalss, IL; M. Il. Conway, l.
Every man in this list with the excep-
ton Of s. A. Kingman, has been gath
cred to his fathers. In the state senate
of that year there were twenty-siS
! members. and of these only three are
| known TO be alive. In the house there
were seventy-six representatives, ana
of these only seven are in the flesh ana
blood.
ORIENT ADvERTIsEs. Orient
railroad will publish a magazine tell
ing of the virtues OF the parts OF Kan
sas and Oklahoma through which It's
projected lines are to pass and Will
send out an issue of $780, 900 sometime
during the coming fall. The plan Is
to give a series of town sketches, the
material for which will be furnished
by local persons and paid for by the
railroad company. The edition will be
put out at large expense. The Mail
and Breeze printing house in Topeka
will do the mechanical work.
Fou:yD GOVERNMENT BONDS. How
ard l.. Castor, n farmer, brought Sl5,-
600 in government bonds to Seneca.
He found them in a rubbish pile on Il
farm which he rented recently. The
farm belongs to the estate of W. Ia.
Maxwell, who left it to be placed in an
asylum for the insane four years ago.
Mr.. Castor found the bonds in care
fully tied and protected bundle, which
had evidently been covered with rub
bsh to conceal it. The bonds were
given to the agent of the estate.
To EXPERIMENT WITH Cows. The j.
p. Baden Produce company has leased
800 acres of land south Of Winfield for
u dairy. One hundred first class milk
cows have been purchased and put
under the care of Johnnie Cochran, an
experienced dairyman. The object of
this step on the part OF the Baden peo-
pie is two-fold; namely, to obtain fresh
milk for daily use in the creamery de-
partmcnt and to experiment with COWS
for the purpose of obtaining more in
formation on dairy products.
EDITOR EcKERT's DAUGHTER. One
of the society events of the season at
Arkansas City was the marriage before
large company of guests in the Meth
odist church of William A. Sullivan,
an Indian trader of Darlington, o. T.,
and Miss Lee Eckert. daughter of Col
onel T. W. Eckert, for many years ed
itor of the Arkansas City Daily Tray
eler. Miss EclSert drew claim in the
government land drawing and met the
groom while living on her farm. They
will reside at Darlington, .. f.
RATES ON SUGAR.-The interstate
commerce commission have not acted
upon the demand from Wichita that
the iobbers there should have as low
rates on sugar from Rocky Ford as are
given to Kansas City jobbers; but the
railroads have conceded the even rates
to Wichita. Heretofore wholesale gro
GERS of Wichita could sell no sugar OUT
side of Sedgwiclt county; now they have
an equal chance on AL territory natu-
rally belonging to them.
ENDOWMENT FUND.-The Southwest
Kansas college at Winfield will soon
have 100000 endowment fund. Win
field citizens made the proposition to
raise S25, 900 if the conference would
raise the other $4,000. The PROPOSE
tion was accepted by the conference
and provisions were made for beginning
the work of raising the money at once.
RILEY COUNTY COURT HoUsE.-A
special election is to be held some time
in June for the purpose of building a
court house in Manhattan. The widow
of George W. Higginbotham has offered
a site for the building near the business
part of the city, valued at $1,000.
IRRIGA ALTON MEETING Called. L.
Diesem, president of the State Irriga-
ton association, and r. NJ. Lawrence,
presiden. of the Garden City Industrial
club, have issued call for meeting
at Garden City on April 16 to organize
a Southwestern Irrigation association
and lay plans for future development.
KILLED IN ELEvAToR.-Geo.W w. Nell
son, an operator of an elevator in a
Wichita ware house, kneeled on the
floor to throw a SNOWFALL at a party on
the floor below, when the elevator
caught his head and crushed it.
FARMERS FOR GOOD ROADS. r. w.
Gorrill, Douglas county farmer, offers
to give 500 year for ten years to
help along good roads work. Gorrill
says that if the merchants and others
will crush the rock the farmers will
haul it and do other work.
PAID FOR THE HORSE. AN Emporia