The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1903-09-25


Tenn, has been undermined by water
and is in danger of topping over. 1t
marks the approach of the Kansas
troops in the engagement and occupies
the most important point on Mission
Ridge. The monument was erected by
a legislative appropriation. The build
ing Of government road through the
park near the base of the monument
was the cause of the damage sustained
by it.
GRAIN INSPECTION RECEIPTS. The
August receipts of the grain inspection
department were the largest on record.
Not counting the money which was
taken in at five fee stations, Il total OF
S., 1891, so was collected by ]. w. Rad
ford, state grain inspector. The de-
partment paid out S3,5545o In salaries
and 500 for expenses, leaving a bal
ance of Sa,137. Mr.. Radford says the
receipts would have been S10,0 il the
railroads could have handled the grain.
{ TAKES Two TO BARaAIN.-Under the
law school district can vote to hold
school or to pay tho tuition Gifts pupils
in another district. case from Ford
county, was referred to the attorney
general. There the district to which
another district had voted to send their
pupils, had not room for them in its
school house and refused to talee them
in. The attorney general holds that
the arrangement is contract which
both districts must agree to.
BIO LOAD OF WHEAT.-Farmers in
Pratt county are in a contest to see
which can haul the largest load OF
wheat to market. A. w. Jones holds
the belt. For several days he hauled
100 bushels to the load. The other day
he broke the record by hauling 1l3
bushels and ten pounds. The eleva-
tor company had to borrow additional
weights to weigh the load. Mr.. Jones
hauled the load seven miles and used
four horses.
HUTCHINSON FAIR.-The first fair
there having legislative sanction. A
very large poultry exhibit was feat.
IRE. There were collections from the
farms and orchards sent in from sev-
eral counties, in competition for the
prizes offered by the state worlds fair
More than $50 horses
were entered for the races, the purses
ranging from SIS to $500.
DIsCHARGINa BoYs.--Thc Topeka
city railway is disclarging all boys
under 81 years of age. There are
about so boys left. The theory is that
the boys will be required to 60 school.
These boys were taken on when the
demand for harvest men made it i'm
possible to keep up the force by EN-
ploying men only.
IN CHARGE OF DEWEY RANCH Frank
L. Bull, stoclimen of Abilene, has
been engaged as superintendent of the
big Dewey ranch in Northwestern
Kansas.
RAPID PLowINa. "A Sumner county
farmer is blowing by steam and run
ming a night shift. In "a hours forty
acres are stirred and narrowed.
HIGHER THAN LAST YEAR-The city
schools of Wichita opened with 4,SOo
pupils in attendance; about 800 higher
than OH the first day last year.
CoyFIsCATIKG CoAL.-This practice
is now going OH. All the railroads of
Kansas are said to be filing their bins
with coal shipped to dealers.
GRooM's SHoRTmoRNs.-Col. H. T.
Groom has brought to Wichita from
his Panhandle ranch seventy of his
Seorthorns to be sold there.
MOVED BY SToRM-A Methodist
Protestant church at Pleasant Hill,
Sumner county, was moved off its
foundation by the storm.
BONDS FOR INrERURBAN The Wich'
tia city council has passed an ordinance
for voting bonds for the Arkansas Val.
ley interurban railway.
FIRST WOMAN PnYsIcIAN-The Dir.
Emily Il. Robbins, who died ut her
home in Philadelphia last week, and
who is believed to he the first woman
in the United States 10 receive med
ical diploma, with her. husband lived
in Junction City and was a medical
practitioner there from 1865 to 1878.
USE WooD AT CAMP.-Contracts have
been let for stovewood to be used by
the troops Mt the maneuvers at Fort
Riley. The contract calls for 740 cords
of which 400 cords will be shipped to
the post at cost of $40 cord.
GAS AT CHEToPA strong flow OF
gas was struck in we'll being drilled
on the George Bush farm at the corner
of Chetopa. The gas was found at a
dentb of 375 feet and in a dry hole.