The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1904-02-05
KANSAS COMMENT.

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to be a find of oil underneath the
ground.
FROM CLARK COUNTY. Peter Haverty,
formerly of Clark county, kas., was
recently killed in runaway at Hau-
chuca, Arizona.
For SWEDISH COLLEGE.
tions, to be paid in installments, are
being canvassed for at Mcpherson for
a Swedish college.
ASKS CHANGE OF RECORD. The wild
ow of Major Henry Inman, soldier and
author, is making an effort to secure a
correction of his military record.
Too MucH.-W. o. Pratcr, of Sumner
county, has an 11-year-old boy who put
in condition ninety acres of wheat
ground ready for the drill last fall.
OVER RURAL ROUTES. Merchants at
Abilene think of sending a man out
over the rural mail routes one day each
week to take orders for goods to be de-
livered the next day.
MODERN WooDMEN.-Many hundreds
of Modern Woodmen from Oklahoma,
Indian Territory and Missouri, as well
as from Kansas attended the national
convention of that order in Wichita.
TAXES S3.13 A MoNTH.-The editor
of the Winfield Courier has just paid
his taxes and finds that he has to pay
the county treasurer 1913 per month
for the privilege of living in his own
house.
DIED IN BUGGY.-Mr Green, of Con-
way Springs, had taken Mr., King out
Of town to look at piece ofland. Mr..
King noticed Mr.. Green breathing
heavily, but thought of nothing seri-
GUS being wrong Finally Mr.. Green
became unconscious, dropped the lines
and died almost instantly.
FELL FROM TRAIN.-W. c. Floyd.
cattleman of Kansas City and Southern
Kansas, fell from train near Garnett.
lie lit on q soft embankment and, 1T
is hoped, is not seriously hurt. 1t is
believed that Mr.. Floyd was asleep.
lie made his way to farm house, in
The night, and was first refused shelter
because the farmer did not believe his
tory. The farmer finally let him in
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A LYON COUNTY BoY.-Captain Har-
,ord, who is chief of staff in Manila, is
. Lyon county boy, son of George w.
Iarbord, Agnes City. Captain Jim
rev up in Lyon county near the old
agnes City postoflice. Recently he
Won first prize offered by the U, S.
ravalry association for the best paper
IN ''The History of the Northern Vir-
,inian Confederate During the Civil
Var" Harbord is friend of General
Woods and he is climber.
WHEAT STORED ON PRAIRIE.-The
work of cleaning up wheat, stored on
the open prairie and without shelter
has been going on rapidly and now
but little is left. At Belpre D. g. Don
AVIAN filed his elevator and then put
go, 900 bushels in ten piles on the sod.
Not until after October 10 did he com
mence to clean up this surplus, and the
last of it has just gone to market. He
H. ff ~ a q tho HTU
weather prevented the molding even of
that next the ground. BY running the
bottoms of the piles through cleaner
he made No. wheat of the entire Co.,
600 bushels. This has been the exper1-
ence of dealers generally.
ORAToRICAL CONTEST. inter-so-
ciety oratorical contest at the agricul-
tural college resulted in victory for
the Ionian society, Miss WilmaG. Cross
being awarded first place. This is the
third consecutive year this society has
received the honor. The subject of
Miss Cross Grafton was citizenship as
a Factor in Government"
FILIPINO AT X. U.-A Filipino boy
named Sierracco Dag Dag is attending
Kansas University at Lawrence. He
made speech before the high school
pupils.
CITY MAIL BoxEs.-Topella has been
designated as the distributing point
for the city mail boxes. If any of the
towns in Texas, Arkansas, Kansas or
Oklahoma need boxes for the free city
delivery they will come from Topeka.
OF course the applications for the
boxes must be made to Washing
ton.
KANSAS BALL PITcHER.-Dummy
Taylor, the famous base ball pitcher,
who was raised at Winchester, Kansas,
is teaching in deaf and dumb school
in North Carolina this winter.
TRY BEETs AGAIS.-Farmers inter
ested in the sugar beet met at Emporia
and decided to buy seed this spring
and give the beets another trial One
hundred and thirty per-ons got seed
last year and only forty or fifty re-
rorted