The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1904-01-01

Will be advanced again, suiu OPci"ooi
Robert Bunten. IL have received no
LITIGATION from the Santa Fe officials OF
a 20 per cent freight advance unless
shippers stand good for all short
weights when delivered to the dealers.
As the coal is in charge of the railways
and the loss is due to them it seems I'M
fair for us to stand the shrinkage. In
either case coal will be advanced"
Two Fool BoYs.-They were from
Falls City, Neb., and were making
trip to Hiawatha when they met
farmer with q team of colts who asked
the boys to stop until he got by them.
They kept on, shouting and the farmer
shot holes in the rubber tires of their
auto, The boys then hired the farm
er to haul the auto back to Falls City,
where they also had to pay for the
ruined rubber tires.
MORE WRECK VICTIMS Kan
able, the marshal of Coopertown, Okla,
who was injured in the wreck OF the
st. Louis & San Francisco's fast train,
the Meteor, near Fort Scott, is dead.
This makes the total dead ten. b. f.
Garroway, of Jonesboro, Ark, is be-
lieved to be dying and II. b. Darling
ton, a mail clerk, of Kansas City, is in
q dangerous condition.
WILL Nor MARRY DIvoRCED.-Thc
Winfield Ministerial union adopted the
following: 1--WE express our disap-
prevail of the laxness of divorce laws
and the exercise thereof by the COURTS
and refuse to officiate at the re-mar-
rage of those who are divorced for
other than scriptural reasons.
STONE MAsoN's WIII..-The probate
court has paid $40, 545.15 the amount
willcd some years ago by John Swayne,
of Franklin county, to to the Catholic
order of st. Catherine, England.
Swayne worked at ottawa as stone
mason and lived alone boarding his
money.
MARRIED 6S YEARs.-Mr and Mrs. j.
S. Upton celebrated their 6Sth we'd
ding anniversary at Salina. They
have been married longer than any
other couple in the county, and they
have Observation-Disclosures. Mr..
Upton is SO and his wife 81.
To REDEEM WARRANTs.-S Treas
urer IT. T. Kelly has given notice
that all warrants now outstanding
will be redeemable after January Fl,
and that no interest will be paid on
warrants after that date.
AN OPEN SwITCn.-A Missouri Pa
cific passenger train from Omaha to
Kansas City, ran into an open switch
at Everest and into freight train on
the siding Two of the crew And'two
passengers were hurt.
For AUDITORIUM Salina trav-
cling men who are raising money for
the erection Of $4,000 auditorium in
Salina. went to Junction City on
special train to give two minstrel per-
foJmances.
STRUCK BY TRAIN.-bIrs. NJ. Weber,
an aged woman living one mile south
of Westphalia, while walking to church
was struck by a freight train, receiving
injuries which caused her death three
hours later.
WHEAT Nor SPRoUTED.-A Norton
county man is quoted as saying that
from lack of moisture much of the
wheat in his county, planted in Sep
TENDER, has not sprouted yet.
INSANE NOTWITHSTANDING county is
removing the insane from the Bedwell
private asylum. The county has been
paying So per week while the state al
lows the county So for their care.
KANSAS LIBRARIEs.-There are SO of
them. of which Andrew Carnegie helped
to plant ~. Miss Helen Gould has given
half as many more.
ONE Potato EAcu.-At the Christmas
eve meeting of the First Baptist church
of Wichita one potato was the admis-
sion fee.
A 1,OOO-BARREL WELL. The Phoenix
Oil company has well that flows 900
barrels of good oil day. 1t is located
on the Lockport lease, three miles
southeast of Humboldt
COOPERATIVE LAUNDRY.-A Topeka
laundry has just paid its employees the
regular annual dividend, amounting
this year to about six weeks full pay.
OIL NEAR ALTAMoYT.-Oil has been
discovered on the Clarence Sillcott farm
four miles south of Altamont. 1t has
not been known that the section was
in the oil belt.
Cor ENOUGH CAsH.-Several Nor
wegians and other foreigners, who
have been living in Brown county, are
leaving for their former homes. Some
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