The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1904-03-11
KANSAS COMMENT.

douglas county Wtic INV" ioA Ao
on Sunday.
ZEALAND SALE.-W. Overield lately
sold twenty-five acres of land near
Hiawatha for $3.50, or $l3l per acre.
MOVING TIE LIBRARY.-lt took
weel, to remove the Newton public Ii
brary into its new quarters and install
it.
REARING ORANGE TREE.-A Smith
county woman has an orange tree con-
tanning ~ oranges and fifty-two BIOS
SONS.
A KANSAS BoY.-Ertel Weaver, an
Dillingham; boy, is at Colon, the seat OF
Panama troubles, on the battleshlp'
s'Atlanta"
OFFERED so CENTS. -A Halstead man
was offered eighty cents a bushel Tor
his 4. 900 bushels of wheat last week,
but declined.
OLDEST MASON. Wilson, in Ellis
worth county, claims the Oldest Mason
in the state in the person of A. van
Nausdle, who joined the order in ls49'
ErGury OUT OF School. than
80 pupils of the Oakland school are
out of school on account of measles
Oakland is city of the third class ad-
joining Topeka.
COMMITTEE SUCcEssFUL.-The com
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mittee appointed at Wichita to sell
$50. 900 worth of the Orient construc-
ton company stock completed its can
yass and succeeded in disposing OF that
amount.
Co17N1y ASSOCIATION. hard
ware and implement men OF McPher-
son county have organized county as
sociation. 1t is branch of the retail
association of Kansas, Missouri and
Oklahoma.
Dusr STORM ON WHEAT-The dust
storm is reported from Junction City
as having done great damage to wheat
fields by blowing the dirt away from
the roots. A like report comes from
Hutchinson.
FAMINE OF TEACHERS. For the first
time in the history of Wichita there Is
n famine of teachers in the pubic
schools. There is at present one va
cancv in the regular list and there are
no substitutes to fill the place.
ABILENE IS DRY.-For the first time
in years Abilene went dry" the
s'iointists' having moved out their
poods and quit business. The action
is the result of an effort of the Law
and Order League of the county to
close every joint.
95ru BTRTupA C. NJ. Rice, or
"Auntie" Rice as she is known, cele-
brated her ninety-ffth birthday at
Hiawatha on February %, Washing
toms birthday. She was the subject
of much attention and was the recip-
lent of many presents on that day.
Mrs Rice still retains her keen hear
ing, has fairly good eyesight and
brilliant mind. She insists that she
will be centenarian. She still re-
tains her wonderful memory.
PART OF LAW INvALID.-Attorney
General Coleman holds that justices OF
the peace and constables in second
class cities should be elected at the
November election; that this law is In
violation of the state constitution as
construed by the supreme court, and is
therefore, invalid. The state consti-
tuition provides that all township
officers shall be elected at the Novem-
Der election and the supreme court has
held that justices and constables IN
second class city are township officers.
DAMAGE DoNE.-Great damage to
farm buildings, stock and grain is re-
ported from Culver, Lincoln, Colbert,
Marquette, Ellsworth, Kanapolis, Ora
ham, Ellis, Russell, Labin, Hill City,
and other places. At Deerfeld, seven
miles from Lalzin, the school children
were kept in the school building until
after Q o'clock at night, until all dan
ger was passed.
KILLING PRAIRIE DoGs.-Roy Nc
Neal. trustee of Beaver township, Scott
county, has eight men employed to
help him kill prairie dogs.
ENGINEER SUICIDEs.-Henry Kreit-
mier, an ex-Santa Fe engineer, COM
mitted suicide by shooting himself in
the head with revolver while stand
ing in the Cottonwood river at EN-
poria. He had been missing from
his home two days when his body was
found.
RAISED A SURPLUs-At the dedica-
ton of the new M. L. Grace church
Sunday at Winfield $500 had to be
raised before the ceremony could take
place. Within an hour 50, 200 was sub.
scribed-
GROUND 100000 BUsHEIs.-one
hundred and twenty-four mills in Kan
sas reoort that that they have ground