The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1904-05-20
KANSAS COMMENT.

PENSIONED hORSE.-Olu DiAi,
has served the Ottawa fire department
for thirteen years, has been pensioneo
and his future home will be green pas
lures.
FROM HARD STUDY.-Stanley Davis,
, Tonelsa biph school student, is in
sane from hard study. He has been
sent to a private asylum for treat
ment.
LIGHTNING AT WINDOW.
thunder storm at Window lightning
struck the depot, knocking out the
keys on the operators table and also
injuring his fingers.
400 INrrIATEp.-The Knights OF
Pythias rally in Topeka attracted al
most 1900 Pythians from all over Kan
sas. In the neighborhood OF 400 can
didates were initiated.
WELL. ABANDoNED.-The second gas
and oil we'll at Emporia has been aoan-
doned. A piece of steel was droppeo
in the well by unknown parties ana
could not be pulled out.
MARRIED TOO YoUNG.-An Ottawa
girl INDUCED in a long cry because her
dearest friend had married before "A
years of age. She would have waited
until at least 80 the girl thinks.
MANHATTAN PARKs.-A mass meet
ing was held at Manhattan for the
purpose of effecting an organization
for civic improvement. The hills sur
rounding Manhattan will be converted
into parks and groves.
FLORENCE PLEAsED.-Florence Is
feeling good over some improvements.
which the Santa Fe proposes to put In
Contracts have been let for fine pas
senger depot, and about two miles OF
wards. The company will spend about
$4,000 there this summer.
MORE ABOUT oRIENT.-The Orient
railway is now pushing its Kansas line
It has let the grading contract from
Cottonwood Falls to the Usage county
line through Lyon county and graders
are now at work. The company has
finished paying for its right OF way
through Usage city, and buildings are
now being moved off. 1t is the opin-
ion of business men there that the
Orient will connect with the Missouri
Pacific at that place and run into Kan
sas City.
In PIrrsBURe D1sTRIcT.-The Pitts
burg coal district is entirely free from
any labor disturbances. Every coal
shaft in the district has been unionized
and every operator is paying the union
scale and complying with union regu-
lations in the operation of his shafts.
The best of feeling prevails between
miners and operators and while the
mines are working pretty slack on ac-
count of market conditions being I'M
favorable, the outlook for the future
is bright.
GARNETT's GAS WELLs.-It is devel-
oping that Garnett has one of the
strongest gas wells in that part OF the
state. Experienced oil men say that
with the two wells now complete Gar
nett has enough gas to supply all needs
till cold weather, and, with a third
well of the same volume, the city will
be we'll taken care of. In testing the
well heavy water-soaked oak 2x4 two
feet long, when thrown into the gas
issuing from the well were thrown
twenty feet in the air, while the roar
of the escaping gas could be heard for
a mile. New wells will be sunk at
once.
UNIONS PROTEST. Fourteen members
of the Trades and Labor council at
Leavenworth went before the board of
directors of the state prison at Ian
sing and protested against the en-
ployment of fifty convicts at manufac-
turing overalls. The board was power
less to take any action on the matter,
as they have already signed six years
contract with the firm who will use
the convict labor.
RAINS AT ABLESE.-IIeavy rains
on the night of May 6 filled streams
and stopped spring work.
COLLISION IN Foe.-A dense fog al
lola resulted in an accident on the
electric road which caused the death
of William Coleman, motorman. A
work train and a passenger car met
head-on and partly telescoped. Cole
mans legs were badly crushed.
SANTA FE WRECK.-The Santa FL
limited. westbound, had wreck il
the Dodge City yards, caused by jump
ing the rails and breaking a journal
A delay of several hours was caused
No injuries are reported. The cal
wrecked was the diner
FARRIERs GRADUATE,-A hundred
members of the training school TO
farriers and horseshoers who have jus