The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1903-05-08

to succeed Captain Clad Hamilton, u
announced. Pestana is an old soldier
and now state senator from Rnssel
county. The place pays 81, 600 year
now, having been cut down from Sl' eo'
by the Legislature.
had GOOD NERVE. While n newly
married couple were returning from
theii. honeymoon on Missouri Pacific
train to their home at Bushton, Kans.
! the bride walked off a train that was
running at thirty-five miles an hour
Her shoulder was disiocated and
bruised. She did not lose conscious
ness.
ALL RAILROAD MEN. Interna
tional convention of the Railroad Y
NJ. c. A. at Topeka, consisted OF l,7o'
or 1,So0 railroad men OF the United
States and Europe. They represent
the very best type of railroad men, al
army of workers in which the standard
is constantly being raised.
REFoRMAToRY MANAGERs.-Gov
or Bailey reappointed Phillip Kelley
of White Cloud, and Il. j. O'Neil, Of
Usage City, as members of the board
of managers of the Kansas state re-
formatory at Hutchinson. They will
serve term of four years.
FIRST Snow THEY EVER SAw.-H.
Audrey and wife, of Freemantile, Aus
tralia, passed through Salina on their
way around the world. Mr. Audrey is
wealthy miner and left Sydney on
November 5, 1902. The first snow he
ever saw was falling.
NAMED FOR FRENCH BATTLEFIELD
1t is stated that the town OF Sedan,
county seat of Chautauqua county, was
named by an early traveller who saw
the site from neighboring hill and
was struck with it's likeness to the
French battlefield.
A SHOW HORSE. A fine horse raised
by James Haddocll, of Glasco, was pur-
chased the other day by A. B. Mont
gomery, OF jamestown, for $500. The
horse will be exhibited at all the big
horse shows, and at state fairs.
A HIGH WALL.-Work has com
menced of building a wall around the
Hutchinson rcformatory. 1t is to be
20 or 25 feet high. The appropriation
for it was SIG, 500. The work is to be
done by convicts.
STOCK KILLED IN BARN.-A barn on
the farm of Eli Saindon, near Palco,
Saline county, was struck by lightning
and destroyed by fire. Eleven head of
horses and eleven head of other stock
were burned.
AT WAsHBURN CoLLEGB.-The trus-
tees of that old and popular school
have established musical conserva-
tory, and it is proposed to make of it
the leading institution of the kind in
Kansas.
THREE Towns UNITE. -Coffcyville,
Cherryvale and Independence may
unite in granting franchise for an in
terurban electric road to serve them
all
KANSAS ENCAMPMENT The twenty
second annual encamrment of the Kan
sas G. A. R. will be held at Mcpherson,
beginning at $3.50 a. IN. of May 20.
WIru ROOSEVELT. Secretary Root
was called to Kansas to accompany the
president through a portion of his trip
through the state.
COST OF CoFFELT JURY. In the Coffelt
murder trial in Sumner county 327
Jurors reported and were examined at
cost of 81, 365.75.
HAS NEEDED IT LoNa.-The Union
Pacific is to build new passenger
depot at Junction City.
AT Ell DoRADo-A new engine has
been built at the Missouri Pacific shops
at FL Dorado.
EMPTY JAIL.-Thc Rice county Jail
at Lyons has not single prisoner
in it.
To INSPECT IN TEXAs.-Governor
Bailey and the members of the state
livestock sanitary commission have
agreed upon plan TO prevent much of
the double inspection of cattle coming
into Kansas from Texas j. II. john
son, the state inspector at Arkansas
City, has been ordered to go at once to
Fort Worth, Texas, and inspect.
RAISED BY HIMSELF. -George Car
pen Ter, a Clay county farmer, the other
sold spau of matched black Percher-
on-Normans raised by himself for
$500.
BARBER TO PROSPECT. Many of the
heaviest tax payers of Medicine Lodge
and Barber county favor experiment
ing on the county poor farm for gas,
oil or minerals. Petitions are being
circulated asking the county commits
sioners to submit the question to the