The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1903-10-02

at the ST. Louis fair. The corps OF
men now getting up the fruit display
under tho direction of the horticul-
tural director is also picking mp IL dis
play of vegetables. Tomatoes, beans,
cucumbcrs, peppers and all small vege-
tables are being gathered and pre-
| served.
! STATE Is HIS HEIR. because the
parents OF Il wealthy Butler county
farmer named Gayner never came to
! America, the attorney general holds
that the estate left by Gayncr when he
died recently will escheat to the state
school fund, instead of going to the
dead mans relatives who are non resi-
dents.
CATTLE CARS SCARCE There is a
serious shortage OF cattle cars 1s EN-
poria. Several Lyon county shippers
have been delayed q week. in getting
their cattle on the market after they
were ready because cars were not to he
had. Trainmen soy they have been
offered tips as high as $40 10 set out
unordcrel cattle cars.
PACKING Snow APPLEs-Superin-
tendent w. II. Schell, of the KANSAS
fruit exhibit at the Worlds fair, has
finished packing 100 bushels OF fine
apples which he selected from those
grown in the orchard of p. II. Thomas,
u couple of miles west OF Wichita
GOVERNOR APPOINTS. Sam Wool
lard, All insurance man OF Wichita,
has been appointed as aide-de-camp on
Governor B;,ilcy's staff, and Roscoe w.
Gates, of Chanutc has been commits
stoned first lieutenant of Company ID,
First regiment, X. N. G.
DISTRIBUTING RELIEF FUND. The
local relief committee at Topeka is
distributing $4,000 cash among the
food victims OF North Topeka. Six
hundred and fifty-three applicants
have been granted relief in sums vary
ing from $50 to S..
FLOUR FOR ExpoRT.--Thc mills of
Clay Center are running night and day
to fill their orders which are rushing
in Most of the -four now being man IL
featured is for export, though good
per cent is for homo consumption.
PENSION Roll SMALL Ell. The pay
roll of the Topeka pension agency for
the last quarter was 500, 600 less than
for the corresponding quarter last
year. This indicates that the tide has
turned.
In COLD STORAGE. p. II. Thomas
has. near Wichita, an orchard of GO
acres and he expects to place 5000
bushels of select apples in cold storage,
selling only early apples and culls this
fall.
CARNINAI AT HOWARD. Great prep
arations are being made for the car
niv;,l and street fair ut Howard on De-
tobcr and 3. There are to be fine
stock and agricultural displays.
INSUFFICIENT EVIDENCE. -There have
been scores of prosecutions in the dis
trict court of Shawnee county, and
every man tried has been discharged
"for want of sufficient evidence"
IUsTICNs CANNOT THE supreme
court decides that Justices Of the peace
arc without authority TO sentence
boy to the reform school.
WINFIELD FAIR MADE GooD.-The
fair management report $4,000 in re-
ccipts, which will leave surplus in
the treasury.
JUICE MILTON MOVES. -Judge b. +.
Milton, of Dodge City, attorney for
the Orient road, is to remove his fam
lily to Wichita.
CAME OUT AHRAD-The state fair at
Hutchinson pal all claims on demand
ami had money left ever.
A ZINC SMEi.TER Arrangements
are completed for zine smeltcr at
Caney.
STILL WAET MEN-Thc thrcshers OF
Decatur county are asking for 100 men.
ASK FoR GRAND Jury Clay county
has been "weL" for about Il year. There
is now a petition being circulated ask
ing for a grand jury at the November
term of court, in an effort to close the
joints. Four hundred names are re-
CURED to secure u grand jury.
A Rock ISLAND CHA.GE.-Thomas
Rookie has been appointed assistant
superintendent of machinery of the
Rock Island system with headquarters
at Topeka His jurisdiction extends TO
all lines of the system west of the Mis-
souri, river.
HOSTILE TO RANcHERs-Ever since
the killing of thc Berrys by the Deweys
in Cheyenne county last May there has
been much more bad feeling shown
against the Dewcys than formerly.