The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1904-06-17


year 1877 new buildings were erected a
total cost of $194,o49. The value o
all public school property is estimated
at so, 1s1, 249. Reports from the vari
GUS county superintendent to Stat
Superintendent Dayhoff show that 10,
O73 teachers were employed during thu
past year. They were paid SO, AIS, 1907
The sum of SIS, s12, 7os was spent for al
purposes in the schools.
300 MILES IN A CANoE.-Ed Davidson
Ralph Martin and Monte Schermer
horn took voyage in a steel canoe
during. the subsistence of the recent
flood, from Wichita to Ponca City, q
distance of 300 miles, by river. They
had number of narrow escapes from
collisions with bridge piers, etc. Many
cattle were seen that had been caught
in the overflow and stranded on the
islands when the water went down.
TRAINED NURSES GRADUATE.-At the
seventh annual commencement of the
Wichita hospital training school for
nurses there were seven members OF
the graduating class. The Wichita
hospital was founded in 1886, and was
converted into a training school for
nurses in 1898. The course of study
includes two years work. The build
| ing used was given for this purpose by
Mr.. Cutler, of Boston.
A PIONEER EDIToR.-J. b. Busack
one of the pioneer newspaper men of
Kansas, is dead at the age of 60 years.
He came to Kansas from Tecumseh,
Neb., where he had published the
Chieftain. His Kansas work was on
the Clay Center Dispatch and after
wards he was the editor of the Wash
ington, Kas., Republican and Register
for more than twenty years.
New EATING HoUsE-A rumor is
afloat that an eating house will be
erected by the Missouri Pacific at
Council Grove and will be operated
like the Harvey eating houses. Some
forty eating houses are said to have
been ordered on the Missouri Pacific
and Council Grove is among the num-
Der.
On HOWARD BRANCH.-By working a
large force of men up to their waists in
water the Santa Fe was enabled to
open it's Howard branch, on which a
quarter of mile of track was washed
out. The NJ. X. & Z. has been unable
to run trains except for short distances
on it's Neosho river branch.
OIL AT GARNETT.-A good thirty to
fifty barrel oil well was struck six
miles northwest of Garnett. The well
is strong one and in practically an
undeveloped and new section. New
companies are being formed and other
wells will be put down at once.
KANSAS BLIND School. pupils
of the Blind school of Kansas, in
charge of Prof. Lahir Williams, gave
an entertainment at the Kansas build
ing at the worlds fair
MOVING A BoILER-A. W. Stevenson,
member of the Salina city council, was
seriously hurt while moving large
boiler. Both his legs were fractured
and his head was cut.
Hor,ie until
recently pastor of the Christian church
at Chanutc, has sued the trustees of
the church for SEQ go, which he claims
to be due him.
600 DELEGATEs.-Th were fully
that number in attendance at the
thirteenth annual meeting of the Kan
sas State Sunday School association. at
Clay Center.
SPURIOUS CoINs.-Three men are I'M
der arrest at Parsons for flooding the
town with spurious coins thought to
have been made of linotype metal.
FIFTY CADETs-On a train ON the
Rock Island fifty cadets from the st.
John military school left Salina to
spend q month at the worlds fair
CITY EMPLoYE PENsIoNED. - VIM.
Hoover, assistant chief of the fire de.
partment at Atchison who has been re-
tired on account of physical disability,
after % years of faithful service, with
an allowance of s35 a month, is also an
old soldier and receives Sc a month
from the government
Born FROM X. U.-Senators Jim"
Owens and John Bush, of Colorado, are
both graduates of Kansas University
and returned there for commencement
They are prominent members of the
Colorado legislature.
Busy JURYMEN.-Judge Madden,
who has been holding court at Cotton
wood Falls, discharged the jury, which
was composed mostly of farmers who
wanted to replant corn. All the jury
cases in Chase county were continued
to the fall term.
KANSAS School ExHIBIT.-The Kan