The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1904-06-24
KANSAS COMMENT.

church building. The loss is $3.50.
ONAGA ADDITIONALLY Pottawato-
mic county town has grown to the
point of planning to build new opera
house.
Will PRosPECT.-Great Bend Will
.prospect for oil and gas A company
has been organized and two thousand
shares of stock placed on the market
at five cents per share.
COUNTY CLERK DEAD.-Will A. Lich-
tenberger, county clerk OF Sumner
county, died at his home in yelling
ton, of peritonitis, following an attack
of acute stomach trouble. He was 80
years of age and had recently been re-
nominated by the Republicans for
second term as county clerk.
BISHOP SELLS HoTEL.-The National
Hotel at Salina has passed out OF
the hands of the Bishop of Birming-
ham, England, to Ezra Criley, OF the
Coates house of Kansas City, for n cash
consideration of S24 900. The National
was built in an early day by local
parties. 1t was mortgaged to the
English bishop.
STRANGE BUT TRUE.-Ottawa is not
in Ottawa county; Wichita is not in
Wichita county; neither is Kiowa IN
Kiowa county nor is Chase in Chase
county; nor Lyons in Lyon county;
nor Douglas in Douglass county; nor
Harper in Harper county. And there
are others, perhaps.
MUST FURNISH AIR.-The state legal
department has ruled that coal opera
tors must always furnish their miners
with fresh pure air in the mines, even
If it is necessary to run the fans on
Sunday. Some of the operators close
down their fans Saturday night, when
the miners quit work, and don't start
them up until Monday morning few
minutes before the miners go to work
CHARTERED A CAR.-Teachers and
students from Campbell university at
EHolton chartered car of the Rock Is
land for an excursion to the worlds
fair. There were forty persons in the
party, wko will spend several days at
the fair and return in the same car
The Rock Island has planned for
number of such excursions to the fair.
Z lie Santa Fe has made arrangements
for the same service.
BABY WAS ALL RIGHT.-The wife of
j. O. Sewall, of Galena, after search
ing some time for her baby, concluded
she heard its cries from an old shaft,
and jumped into the shaft, which was
ninety feet deep and contained pos
sibly forty feet of water. She was
hoisted to the surface by ropes, I'M
conscious, and was kept from drown
ing by her clothing catching on the
sides of the shaft Her injuries are
fractured skull and many severe cuts
about the head and face After the
excitement abated neighbor brought
her baby home.
Boys AND GUNS. In Wichita Miss
Anna Jones, stenographer, aged 10
years, was presumably accidentally
shot through the head by William
Ward, carpenter, and received in
iuries from which she died few min
utes later. With a party of girls she
left an evening meeting at a church.
A gang of young men were outside the
church when the girls left it. They
followed the girls and discharged their
pistols number of times in the air
and into the ground. Then the boys
all shot nearly at once and ball en-
tered Miss Jones' head and killed her.
A. P. COLLINS SELLs.-One of the
largest land deals that has been con-
summated in Saline county for
years was the sale of the A. P. Collins
farm south of Solomon to w. II. Jones,
of Kansas City, for $4,000 cash, OF
S45. per acre. Mr.. Collins has been
identified with Saline and Dickinson
counties since their early settlement
and represented Saline in the legisla
ture in 1ss3-s5. Mr.. and Mrs. Collins
are in California, where they went fol
the formers health and where they
own a large fruit farm.
CONTRACT FOR LIGHT.-The Concor
dia city council has let the contrac
with 20 year franchise. The con
tractors will furnish the city light
at $40 per year, a reduction of $50
New machinery will be put in and tn
company announces that a fiat rat
will probably be inaugurated on tn
start
Prominent MAN DEAD.-Sidney {
Ashton, manager of the r. G. Du
Mercantile agency in Wichita, VIII
was one of the prominent business an
club men of the city, is dead.
JAY SMITH REsIeSs.-Jay Smith, {
Mcpherson, has resigned his positio
as charter clerk in the secretary {
states Office, to take effect July /. i