The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1905-10-13

in about three weeks. He Will go to
the Oregon conference and will have
charge at Seattle. Rev. Summerville,
of Oregon, formerly a Kansas minister,
will leach for the Great Bend Meth
odists the balance of the conference
year.
Cement Plant at Arkansas City.-Ar-
kansas City is pretty certain to get u
cement plant after all, even though
the Henley proposition has not ma
terialized. The Henley proposition
failed because the raw material to be
used had to be shipped here from Kay
county, as the Henley people owned
the beds of gypsite there, and the
plant they will establish is to use this
product.
Would Not Announce Nelson,
former State Superintendent OF Public
Instruction, has gone on lecturing
! tour in some of the states in the North.
He was asked to make formal an
nouncement of his candidacy for the
United States senatorship before he
went but refused to do So 1t is un-
derstood that Mr. Nelson will get IN
the race when he returns from his lee
turing tour.
Old Settlers Meet.-George W. Mar
tin. secretary of the State Historical
Society, was the speaker at Abilene
at the old settlers reunion of d. iln-
son county in Lincoln park. His sub
iect was 1.-THE Pioneers of Kansas.
J. F. Buhrer was elected president OF
the association and Emmett Hoffman
secretary. More than 1000 persons
were present.
War on DandeIions. - At Yelling
ton a relentless war is to be waged ON
the dandelions at the court house.
The beautiful grounds surrounding
the building are being plowed up to
destroy this pest if possible. Later,
earth from the excavation for the
county high school will be placed on
the grounds, the whole leveled over
nicely and an ideal lawn produced.
Opening of Chautauqua Court.-Ihe
October term of the Chautauque coun-
ty district court convened October 4th
at Sedan and will probably grind for
several days thereafter. In spite OF
the general cleaning up at the May
term when court lasted over week,
there are Ill civil cases and 10 GRIM
inal cases on this docket. OF the civil
cases, IS are divorce cases. Many OF
the civil cases originated from the
slump in the oil business which sent
several of the weaker companies to the
wall.
&c. X, Joint Wharf.-The secretary
of the State Temperance Union and its
attorney, j. X. Codding, held con-
ference with Attorney General Cole.
man in regard to the joint situation at
Kansas City, Kans. Codding has been
there filing some injunction suits and
framing up for a fight to make it
drv town. 1t is understood that.the
ACCESSIBILITY of appointing an assistant
attorney general to reinforce the steps
already taken was discussed. The
chances are that Wyandotte county
will soon have an assistant attorney
general.
Ottawa Mans Observation-Disclosures
E. E. Mendenhall, of the Ottawa mills,
has in operation an Improvement to
| the lubricator used in the engine and
| for cutting the scales in the boilers.
! The attachment is an invention of Mr..
nd &c rnCI1ltC in n
great saving. The ordinary lubrica-
tor uses about one gallon per day of
lubricating oil that costs 40 cents per
gallon, and in the same time six gal
Ions of compound oil that is equally
expensive. Mr.. Mendenhall's appli-
ance permits the substitution of crude
petroleum for both purposes at total
cost of 81 cents per week.
Kansas MilIers Protest.-The grain
dealers and millers of southwest Kan
sas held a meeting at Wichita on the
call of Secretary Smiley. The prlnci-
pal topic of discussion was the deduc-
ton by Kansas City buyers Of 100
pounds from each car of grain on ac-
count of dirt and other losses. A reso-
luton was adopted against this rule
of the Kansas City board of trade, as
it is violation of an act of the last
legislature Active steps will be TAX
en- to have the Kansas City board Of
trade repeal it. Chief Grain Inspec'
tor j. w. Bradford and ]. G. Goodwin,
chief of the board of tariffs and
weights of Kansas City, were in at
tendance.
Good for City Attorney. - At EN-
poria the last meeting of the city
council one of the city ordinances
was amended so as to give the city
attorney s25 as fees for every case in
the district court, whether tried or
settled, and $3.50 for every case that
comes into the police court, whether
he puts in an appearance or not. The
records show that the city attorney
appears in police court in about one
case in ten, but for the other nine
that he has nothing whatever to do
with, he will, by this ordinance, re-
ceive $3.50. in each case. Much I'M
| eo,o-ohia dominant has haen made