The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1903-07-31


In 1891 the STATE appropriated S6o'ooo
for seed purchase and in 1895 appro-
priated $780, 600 more. The under
standing was that the counties which
received the money would repay 1T.
All but about $4,000 has been repaid
and the state will now go after the
unpaid balance.
Bent REMEMBERS THINGs.-Refcr-
ring to General Miles riding ninety
miles horseback in one day, REMINDS
the El Dorado Republican that Il com
pany, Ninth Kansas cavalry, rode 74o
miles in 10 days, and none OF them
bhanged horses, either
+. A. A. NOT Affected The SUI
preme court of Kansas has decided that
insurance orders cannot change their
rates unless such provision was made
in their contract. The Fraternnl Aid
Association has clause in its policies
giving that right
GOVERNOR BAILEY RETURs.-Gov-
ernor and Mrs. Bailey have returned
| from visit of two weeks at the gov
ernor's old home in Mount Carroll, Ill.
| lie is we'll pleased with the prospect
for good crops in Kansas.
FELL ON HIS HEAD.-Lafe Thomas,
of the ouartermaster's department at
Fort Riley fell from buggy his head
striking the pavement. His skull was
fractured and he lived buta short time.
He came from Denver.
OVERCOME BY HEAT.-Major j. Il.
Edward, proprietor of the elevator at
Castleton, and Luster Huffman, truck
man at the Santa Re freight house,
were overcome by the heat on July -.
Both will recover.
WoHE ON THE ORIENT Worlsmen
who quit the road to go into the har-
vest fields are returning, and it is OK
pected that by August l full force
will be at work once more on the gap
| south of Wichita.
BERT CLAY KLLED.--He was Il con-
ductor on the Oklahoma division of the
Santa Fe and was run over at Olilaho-
ina City by coal car. He was "A citi-
zen of Arkansas City and was Mason
of prominence.
FISH SEEMING. ARRESTS are being
made in several counties for illegal
seining of fish, and in other counties
prominent men have been warned that
arrests will be made if their acts are
not stopped.
JoBBTNG RATES. Coffeyville is the
fourth Kansas town which has jobbiDg
rates on farm implements, the other
towns favored in that way by The rail-
roads are Wichita, Kansas City and
Topeka.
BEREYToN GETS DErOT. The state
railroad commissioners have issued an
order for the building of a depot by
the Missouri Pacific, with an agent, at
Berry ton, Shawnee county.
A CRATE FAMINE. The black berry
growers of Wathcna are losing thou
sands of quarts of berries by the lack
of crates. A number of growers made
wine of their berries
IMpALED Of A Fork. Fred Chadler;
young farmer of Brown county, slid
down from hay stack and the handle
of ii pitchforlI was driven into his body
ten inches.
BELT ELECTRIC LINE.-The Yelling
ton News asserts that Wellington,
Winfield, Arkansas City and Geuda
Springs are to be connected by a belt
line.
ORE CRUsuEH BURNED. -One of w.
b. stones crushers at Galena was de-
siroyed by fire. The loss is about
SIS, 900.
On A SUNDAY TRAIN. ON one train,
during a recent Sunday, 26O passengers
went to Geuda Springs.
REFoRMAToRY APPOINTMENTS
perintendcnt Simmons, of the state re
formatory at Hutchinson, announces
the following appointments for place,
created at the recent session of tho
legislature. NJ. II. Taylor, of Rict
county, assistant engineer; Cash Mayse
Cowley county, stone cutters foreman
William Bentson, Scott county, ano
George B. llama, Miami county
guards.
Broom Corn ACREAGE. 1t is tine
smallest in the broom corn distric
about Sterling in % years.
OIL ~ RUSH COUNTY. "A WELLS to b'
sunk at Bison and it will be watched
with interest by all Central Kansans
There is not gas well within $50 ci
200 miles of Bison and That part of thu
state has always been considered out
, side the gas region.
7 KILLED WITH A PICK. Link
: a convict in the state penitentiary a