The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1904-01-29

| claims that it is leading Usage county
towns in the way of building and gem
eral improvements. Five substantial
store buildings were erected during
1908, all of which are occupied, and an
! other is now in course of construction
which will be used as n salesroom for
the wagon, carriage and farm lmple-
ment branch of hardware store. The
erection of more business houses dur
ing the present year is contemplated.
WAS PIONEER AND SOLDIER,
c. Russell, aged 81 years, died in Law
renee January 10. He was born IN
Pennsylvania, came to Kansas III 1890,
was participant in the early border
struggles. served in the Eighth and
Thirteenth Kansas infantry regiments,
was a delegate in the convention that
nominated Governor Crawford, and
was offered the position of paymaster
in the army by President Lincoln
BOND ELECTION VoID. THE Winfield
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which S134 900 in bonds was voted for
an electric railway plant, waterworks
system and prospecting for natural
gas has been declared illegal for the
reason that the matter was submitted
to the voters in one proposition instead
of three and majority of the voters
! oil
held.
CoACHERs AND DRIvERs.-E. S.Thay-
or has shipped from Abilene % head OF
| horses to Clifton Park, n. Y. He went
along to see that they were properly
sold. The horses consisted of coachers
and drivers and were splendid lot.
Lou Ray, the pacing mare, seen at the
matinee races last summer. was among
! the number She has Il record of 2:2473
which was made on the Abilene track.
A KANsAN GETS A RAIsE.-Harry Il.
Howe, of Topeka, clerk in the treas
urv department, has received n salary
promotion from $1,000 to $1,000 per
year. William II. Baker, of Kansas, a
clerk in the pension bureau, at salary
of 81 200, has been appointed special
examiner in the field for the bureau.
His salary will be $1,000 year, with
! SO per diem additional.
CHAMPION BUTTER MAKER.-Mrs. NJ.
Z. Willard is the champion butter
maker of Rush county. In one month
from five COWS she made and marketed
1871 pounds of butter. With what was
used at home the total amounted to
over $50 pounds. The cows We're not
thoroughbreds but they had good care
and feeding.
WAS A KANSAS TEACHER. DR. V. u.
A. Tressler, of Springfield, Ohio, who
has just been elected president of Mid
land college, at Atchison. About tit-
teen years ago nc taught school at Pea
body, Kansas.
LUTHER SCoTT.-Luther Scott. a
member of the Kansas legislature in
1899, and for four years county attor-
ney of Elk county, is dead. He leaves
wife and two grown daughters.
GEN. MILES IN ToPEKA.-General
Nelson A. Miles has accepted an invi-
tation to deliver an address to the To-
pella old soldiers on Lincoln day, Feb
ruary 10.
SELL CoTToNwooDs. -Atchison coun-
ty expects to realize 81 900 out of the
cottonwood grove on the new poor
farm, which is being cut into lumber
ALFALFA FIGURES. The twenty-four
leading alfalfa counties of the state
have 364, 1893 acres, which is GA per cent
of the total area planted.
A HEAVY BULL.-Charles Meyer, of
Brown county, owns an Aberdeen
Angus bull six years old that weighs
2,14O pounds.
Two HUNDRED A YEAR,-Near to
/ 900 complies have taken out marriage
licenses in the past five years in Brown
county.
CowIEY COUNTY SToNE.-Cowley
county shipped 80 carloads of stone to
Omaha to be used in a college building.
FIRE AT Moran is the VIC
tim again of destructive fire, entail
ing loss of S35, 900 Two of the best
business buildings in town occupied by
two large stocks of general merchan-
disc, and smaller store room, in which
, was a stock of drugs packed ready for
> shipment, were consumed.
on STATION AT CoLBY.-The Stand
ard Oil company has decided to estab'
lish a station at Colby, where gasoline
and coal oil will be stored in large
quantities and shipped to towns IN
Northwest Kansas.
PRIZE To STATION AGENT.-Every
: year the Santa Fe company offers SCI
; of prizes to agents along the line who
keep their stations in the best shape
show an increase of business and alsC
sbo,,, +ba host uanapement Arenf