The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1904-02-19
KANSAS COMMENT.


enrolment of 522.
HAVE THE GRIP.-Kansans in wash
ington are pretty generally suffering
from grip.
MAYOR VEToEs.-Mayor Leist, of
Kinpman, vetoed an ordinance reducing
the salary of the police of his city.
STONES IN SAoKs.-The Wellington
merchants complain of finding stones
with the potatoes they receive in sact's'
FROZEN IN PoND.-At st. Francis
sheep, a cow and horse some way got
into pond and were found the next
day frozen solid.
SwEDENBoEGs WORKS. - fretVy
Prairie has sent to the Hutchinson IL
brarv several volumes of the works OF
Emanuel Swedenborg.
A KANSAS SoLDIER.-Dudley Chap
man. member of the 2@nd Kansas
volunteers, is in the Dakota peniten-
tiary for selling whisky to Indians
ALAsp SALE. a. Glace, ex-coun-
tv commissioner, of Clay county, sold
his farm Of 100 acres on the Republican
river for Sill 900, almost $40 an acre.
Cry TO BUILD IT.-Leavcnworth's
gymnasium will be fitted up for an
opera house. An appropriation OF
ST $50 has been made for that purpose.
SECOND TIME.-The burning of the
Presbyterian church at Chetopa is the
second time in five years that this
church has lost its house of worship by
fire. Both fires were caused by fur-
naces.
GRIP AT Fort RILEY.-An epidemic
of the grip has broken out at Fort
Riley and more than half the officers
there are on the sick report. The big
hospital is filled with sick soldiers and
many others are confined to barracks
and quarters.
CATTLE INsPECTED.-The state live
stock sanitary commission reports that
during last year 332, sj4 head of cattle
were inspected and were admitted
TO the state. Bills of health were
issued to POT ,O5S head, and 25,7 were
admitted for slaughter The cattle for
which bills of health were issued were
brought into the state to be fed or WIN
tered. A large number were turned
back at the quarantine line because
they were infected with Texas fever.
THE WORLDS FAUR.-The Kansas
worlds fair commissioners have select
ed the exhibit made by the Otto
Kuehne preserving works at the mid
winter exposition in Topeka, to be
a part of the horticultural exhibit to
be made by Kansas at st. Louis. Be
sides the preserves and pickles prepared
bv Mr.. Kuehne, Mr.. Schell is prepar-
ing Jars of fruit and preserves and
pickles The Kuehne exhibit is OF
fruits and vegetables, preserved and
picked, that were grown in Kansas
and put up in Kansas.
FARMER USES CASA Neosho county
farmer is running his farm by gas.
well sunk for oil yielded gas, and now
he keeps six stoves going in his house,
lights every room, including hall and
cellar, has gas heaters in his coops and
hog pens, furnace out doors for cook
ing food for his live stock, gas engine
to shell corn, grind feed and pump
water, turn Igrindstones and work the
churn, a gas light with reflector to
light the barnyard, contrivance to
illuminate the barn when he opens the
door, heaters for water tanks in the
field. so that his cattle may drink
tepid water all the winter if they want
it.
To JERUSALEM. The delegation from
Wichita to attend the worlds Sabbath
school convention at Jerusalem on
April 1927, are L. Higginson, Mr.. and
Mrs. James Allison, DIR. and Mrs. Bass
and DR.. Lynch. They will leave March
for New York, from where they will
sail March s with the $50 delegates
from all parts of the United States.
ANoTmER MISUNDERSTANDING mas
todon skeleton was dug up by Ray and
Ed Duncan, few miles southwest of
Medicine Lodge. The tuslks measured
81 feet long.
FIRE AT LEAvENwoRTH.-F broke
out in the law office of Sam Wheat, on
Delaware street. The fire was easily
subdued, but what was considered TO
be one of the oldest and most complete
law libraries in the state was almost
totally ruined by fire and water.
SHOE FIRM FALs.-Weiss Bros, who
conducted the Model shoe store at Pitts
burg, have made an assignment in IA
vor of their creditors Their liabilities
are s., 900, and the creditors are prin-
cipally wholesale shoe houses of st.
Louis and Kansas City.
Ar FEDERAL PRIsoN.-Grading for
the front or main cell wings of the new
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