The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1904-01-22
KANSAS COMMENT.

S521 .s12 have been released in the past
year.
HAS MORE FARMS. of
State Burrow has sold his 600-acre farm
in Smith county for $4,000. He has
other farms left.
SCARLET FEVER. - Owing to the prev
alence of scarlet fever in Republic City
the authorities have ordered schools
closed and forbidden public gather
ings.
ALL IDENTIFIED.-Every one of the
bodies of the victims of the Rock Island
wreck at Willard have been claimed by
relatives and taken to their former
homes.
FIRE AT ST. MARY's-The ST. Mary's
mill is burned. 1t was the property of
the st. Mary's Mill & Elevator Co.
The loss is about 81, 900, partially COW
cred by insurance.
NoRpIcA AT BETuANY-Nordiica has
been engaged to sing i'll Bethany audi
torium, Lindsborg, January 20 Special
trains will be run to accommodate
neighboring cities.
AT CoFFEYvILLE.-The congressional
committee of the Third district has Sc
lected Coffeyville as the place to hold
the district convention, and has fixed
the date on March B.
OPENED POWDER WITH FHE.-Wm.
Hill. powder man in mine of the
Pittsburg district, was killed while
trying to open powder can in the
magazine He used an ordinary steel
file, which struck spark and ignited
powder. The magazine was blown to
atoms. The explosion was heard for
miles.
ONLY FOR FIREMEN. -Several of the
11s towns in Kansas which receive
money from the state firemen's aid
fund want to know if they can use the
money for general purposes. lnsur-
ance Superintendent Luling has adj
vised them that the money must be
used exclusively for the aid of fire
men.
WILL Nor LEASE AGAIN.-About
eighty citizens of Ogden township,
Geary county, have signed a petition
to President Roosevelt protesting
against the use of their land for the
army maneuvers and pledging them
selves not to lease their land to the
government for such purposes in the
future.
BLANCHE BOISE AGAIN.-This Topeka
Joint smasher, just retired from term
in the Shawnee county Jail, went to
the rooms of the State Historical So
ciety and attempted to destroy the
picture of the Pine Ridge Indian fight,
presented to Clusters old regiment, the
Seventh Regulars, by distiller. The
picture is valuable and is held where it
for the regiment. She broke the
glass and then attempted to cut up the
picture but was stopped.
ATTACHMENT FOR NoN-REsIDENT--1n
a case from Norton county the supreme
court holds that an attachment may
be brought against nonresident OF
the state in any county where he has
property, although he is at the time
personally present in another county
of the state. 1t is also held that
simmons may be issued to the county
in which the nonresident is present
and service of the summons there will
give the court jurisdiction over him,
at least to the extent of the attached
property.
CoBuRN on HAND.-F. d. Coburn.
secretary of the state board of agricul-
ture, and director of the livestock de-
partment of the st. Louis exposition
came to Topeka from st. Louis to at
tend the meeting of the Kansas Live
Stock Breeders association and the
state board of agriculture.
ENTITLED TO ACCRETIoNs.-The SUI
preme court has decided in the case of
Cora Black against NJ. r. Diver from
Sedgwiclx county that owners of land
along a river bank are entitled to the
natural and artificial accTetions.
WEIGHT OF AIrALFA.--It is still an
unsettled question how many cubic
feet of alfalfa hay it takes to weigh
ton. J. w. Marley, of Butler county,
cut down small round stack of alfalfa
to feet cubed which weighed over the
city scales 2,425 pounds.
FROM ARROW WoUND.-Henry Grimm,
one of the wealthiest citizens of Wa
baunsee county, is dead at his home near
Alma. He came to Wabaunsee in 1857.
The cause of his death was an arrow
wound received in an Indian fight at
Platte Bridge in 1864.
LAND FOR ROUND HoUsE.-Forty
acres of land has been purchased by