The Chanute times., 1903-05-01
KANSAS COMMENT.

$4,000 of 6 per cent bonds at pei
cent.
A COUNTY HIGH SCHooL.-In accord
ance with special act passed by the
the last legislature the board Of county
commissioners established the Rene
county high school at NiclSerson. In
consideration the city of NiclSerson
gives the county Il school house worth
$4,000.
FoR Coon RoADs.-Four delegates to
the National Good Roads association,
which meets at ST. Louis April 81 and
20, have been selected. They are: ID.
c. Congdon, Grant Hornaday, Andrew
j. Sherman and w. War;, all of Fort
Scott. Other Delegates to this meet
ing will be appointed later.
-Four MORE DELEG ATEs. Governor
Bailey has appointed four more dele
gates to the good roads convention,
which meets in st. Louis next week.
They are: r. NJ. Chilcott, Wamego;
". III. SmlJh, NichiIu, "hi'"i
bury, Topeka, and L. A. Kramer
Plainville.
For THE K1NGsBURYs.- Judge Il. L.
Kingsbury, of Burlington, has been
notified that he was willed $4,000 by
his brother, George L. Kingsbury, who
died at Scranton, Pa, March 81. Mrs.
Lucy Hampshire, of SedgwiclS, daugh-
ter of Mr. Kngsbury, is given $4,000
Mr.. Kingsbury's sisters sou, George
Fisher, Is given $40, 900, and a daugh-
ter, Emily Fisher, gets what is left.
SHOT HER FooT.-While the eXcur-
sionists to Lindsborg to hear the Mes
siah" were boarding their train for Nc
Pherson a man on the tram tfcu
shot from Il car window. The bullet
struck a woman in one foot. She was
one of the students at the college,
Bertha Olson. An attempt was made
to arrest the shooter on the arrival OF
the train at Mcpherson, but he could
not be found in the crowded train
IRRIGATION ASSOCIATION. Fifty del
egates met at Garden City and organ
lied the Western Kansas Irrigation as
sociation, with l. l.. Diesem as presi-
dent: ]. G.. Starr, of Scott county, vice
president; John Hall, of Syracuse,
treasurer; G. A Louclls, of Lallin, secre-
tary. C. 4. Johnson, of Cheyenne,
Wyoming, addressed the convention
Other addresses were made by Victor
Murdocll, Charles i. Clyne and John
Hall. The meeting was enthuslas-
tic.
C. A. BARR, NoTARY.-lt seems from
Inquiries received by the secretary OF
state that land swindles of more or less
magnitude have been perpetrated IN
Western Kansas by means OF convey
ances which pretended to be acknowl-
edged by CA. Barr, notary public
of Ellsworth county. An examination
of the records shows that there is no
such person holding notarial commits
sion.
ARRESTED FOR EMBEZzLING. Samuel
ID. Pollock, representative in the legls-
lature from the ffty-ffth district, has
been arrested for embezzling $964 from
the United States government. The
theft was committed when Pollock was
assistant postmaster in the Arkansas
CITY office and was done by tampering
with money orders and records. Pol
lock confessed and exonerated every
one else connected with the Office. The
thefts were committed between May
% and July o, 1902.
THAT SOUTHEAST LINE.-It is be-
coming almost certain that the railroad
line to the Indian Territory coal fields
projected and surveyed by Wichita
people, will be constructed. Eastern
capitalists are to secure the profiles of
of the survey, with the field notes, con-
ditioned upon their commencing the
work of construction soon.
PEYrrENTIARY FARM.-Warden jew
EFT raises enough potatoes by convict
labor on the penitentiary grounds to
supply his 1000 boardcrs the year
round. Now he is clearing ground to
raise enough corn TO fatten sufficient
number of hogs to keep the prison sup
piled with all the hog meat consumed
RATES FoR CASH Money is being
loaned in Vermont at 6 per cent. In
Kansas :he loan agents can get but
five per cent. Kansas money is seek
ing mortgage investments in the east
ern states.
PRIZES FOR LAwNs.-The Hutchin-
son water company is Offering prizes
ranging from $50 to SIS each for the
nest lawns of various sizes developed
this season.
New TELEPHONE CoMPANY.-A new
telephone company known MS the
Dewey-wareham Telephone company,