The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1904-12-30

bound passenger train on the Santa
Fe arrived at Augusta Saturday night
the rim of buggy wheel with one
spoke in it was found on the pilot of
the engine, and side curtain on the
steam box. The train proceeded on
its way and men were sent out up
the track on a handcar. They found
man at the crossing nine miles
south of Eldorado, lying by the side
of the track, terribly mangled and un-
conscious and tangled up in the run
ming gear of buggy. The buggy was
smashed into splinters but the team
was not hurt He was mangled be-
yond recognition, but papers and let
tiers in his pockets identified him as
f. o. Rucker, a liveryman of Augusta,
who WIS on his way home from Edo
RADIO.
Stole Church Collection.--The mean
est person in Brown county has been
definitely located at Hamlin, where
he stole a church collection. A series
of revival meetings has been held at
that place. At the close collection
was taken to help pay the expenses
of the revivalist in charge, after which
every one was invited to come for
ward and enjoy an old fashioned hand
shaking In the interval someone
made off with the collection. Neither
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Gated.
81 Bushel.- The Stout boys are
doing business in the vicinity OF
Manchester. Speaking of the yield
of seed, the boys say their jobs so
far have hulled out fairly well. They
| charge $3.50 per bushel for hulling.
The present price of alfalfa seed is
about 81 per bushel. Mr.. Seeley had
33 bushels of seed from 80 acres of
the plant, and this is said to be
about an average yield in this sec
ton
Gas Symptoms.-D. H. Shepherd,
representing the Hanson Milling
company, of southern Kansas, is in
Atchison, consulting with Nicholas
Bremen, Thomas Langan and others,
about prospecting for oil, gas or coal
in Doniphan county. Shepherd wants
to lease ten thousand acres, and I'M
der certain conditions, will give a
guarantee to begin active operations
at once.
Lost Her Suit. - At Leavenworth
after being out just twenty minutes
the jury in the $4,000 damage suit
of Mrs. Sarah Gish versus the Kan
sas City-Leavenworth road for in
juries she alleged she received by be-
ing showed from Fifth avenue car
by a conductor, returned to the court |
room with the verdict finding that the
plaintiff was not entitled to any dam
ages.
First White Child.-The funeral of |
the late Colonel A. S. Johnson, the |
first white child born in Kansas, took |
place at the residence of his old |
friend, George M. Noble in Topeka. |
All of the state officers attended in a |
body. Most of the prominent men of
Topeka were also there. The body |
was inferred in local cemetery
May Be a Trance. - Preston folks |
are worried They buried last week
a corpse that was as flexible as any
living body, and the fact that the man
lived for eighty years seemed only TO
increase the fear that they were cut
ting a long life short by interring a
man in trance.
Talk to Kansas Farmers. - Secre-
tary Coburn has issued the program
for the annual meeting of the Kansas
board of agriculture to be held at To
peka on January 11-13. The meeting
will open on the afternoon of January
II with business session.
Most Successful Week. - The sew
enth annual Barton county poultry
show closed at Great Bend, after the
most SuCceSSlul Weeh III IhS hiStoiJ
of the association.
Enterprising Reliaion.-The farm
ers in the vicinity of CORTLAND want
ed a church. They went to work,
built it and paid for it. Then they
wanted it furnished and at the first
meeting in the new edifice they raised
$500 by subscription. The church is
five miles from any town.
Inspect Army Hospital.-Colonel E.
B. Byrne, of the army medical depart
ment, chief surgeon of the depart
ment of the Missouri, arrived at ort
Riley from Omaha to make his annual
inspection of the post hospital and
the sanitary condition of the post.
Change Towns Name. - The sta
ton of Sage on the c., K. & w. rail-
road. six miles west of Larned, has
been renamed rizell in honor OF
Mayor f. E. Frizell. of Larned, who
is the owner of the Fort Larned |