The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1903-01-09
SAID IT WAS A JokE.-Henry Whit

son, young insurance and real estate
agent in Wellington, was stopped near
| the Rock Island tracks by man who
wore q mask and carried a revolver
and who demanded that Whitson dis
gorge. Whitson flew into the would
be footpad, giving him sound beat
ing. He then allowed him to go, as
the man said he was playing joke
and mistoolS Whitson for another
man.
| STRUCK BY A TRAIN.-Peter Miller,
who has worked in the Santa Fe shops
at Topeka for 12 years and who lived
at Tecumseh, was driving homo from
his work as usual and while crossing
| the tracks at Tecumseh was struck by
fast train. He was little deaf and,
besides, had his head tied up in muf
fer and his cap pulled down. The
horse and wagon were ground to
pieces and Miller was thrown thirty
feet away. He lived short time.
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Greenleaf- Baker Grain company, of
Atchison, will at once begin making
regular shipments of Kansas corn and
wheat to Europe by way of New Or
leans Fifty thousand bushels of corn
and wheat have already been shipped
to New Orleans for export A ST. p
loaded with corn and wheat from
Atchison leaves for Europe in a few
days.
THREE HUNDRED OF ONE FAMILY
| The old homestead of A. q. Barrett, at
Barrett, was the scene of an extraor-
binary faulty gathering Christmas.
About eighty-fve of the relatives of
the Barrett family ate turkey together.
This represents only about half of the
family, who now reside in Marshall
county. At one time more than 300 Of
the family resided there, but about $50
went to Oklahoma.
AN ATCHIsoN PIONEER. Gar
side, is dead, aged 81 years Ne was
pioneer of Atchison. His fest work
there was as booskeeper and Cashier
for the Byrams who were plains
freighters Later, with his son, James
II. Garside, he was engaged in the
general forwarding business. For 20
years he was cashier of the Missouri
Pacific freight office
Boy SAVES A LIFE.-Will Thorne,
aged 10, saved companions life on
the Smoky Hill near Abilene. A num-
Der of boys were skating and Bernice
Mare went through the ice into fifteen
feet of water. Thorne crept to the
edge of the ice and caught him as he
came up the second time and after a
hard struggle rescued him.
BURIED CAsH.-Charles ". Robinson,
of Ottawa, was told by the physicians
that he had consumption, and could
not live. Then Robinson told his
neighbors that he had 1900 buried in
the manager in his barn. Robinson
died and the money was found where
he said it was. He had packed the
money in glass fruit jars.
TURNS ON GRIMES VoTE.-In con-
test over a county Office in Wichita
county the claim of the contestant
hinges on the question whether Frank
Grimes, who voted there, is n resident
of that county or of Topeka, where he
is building home.
DAYHoFF's ASSISTANTS. State Su-
perintendent-elect l. L. Dayhoff has
announced two of his appointments.
They are: Assistant superintendent,
Frank R. Dyer, of Wichita, and Miss
Laura A. Payne to be statistical clerk.
For As CHRISTMAS DAYs.-Ado Hun
nins, of Leavenworth, has record
showing the weather conditions Of
every Christmas there since 1857.
AN AGED PHYsICIAN.-Dr. Anna
Hoyte, an aged woman, for years a
practicing physician of Central Kansas,
died at Salina on December 30.
Too MUCH PREssURE.-Twof fires at
Coffeyville the other day resulted from
an over-pressure of natural gas.
SALT AT WELLINGTON. parties
who have been boring at that place
have gone to Chicago with samples of
the product of two wells. In each
they are reported to have found IS to
1OO-foot veins of excellent rock salt
and have ordered the men at the wells
to begin arranging for sinking shafts.
Mrs. LEASES SoN.-Charles Lease,
Jr., is government inspector at New
York city, and he has sent TO his father
in Wichita some of the finest imported
rum and cigars, which are samples
given to him by immigrants.
LoT HOLDERS HAVE CoNTRoL.-The
Kansas supreme court recently held
| in Fort Scott case that the lot hold
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