The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1905-06-02


Fire at coffeyvllle. = The Potter
and Clay Company plant In Corey
vile was destroyed by fire. The loss
is $4,000, with insurance of $4,000
The fire is supposed to have been o.
incendiary origin.
Generally Benefited by Rain. =
good general rain is falling over
western Kansas. This is greatly need
ed to aid the wheat which has beer
suffering for want Of rain. the
spring crops will also be greatly bene
flied.
Hurt by Train. = John Morgan,
stranger, was run ovtr by Missouri
Pacific freight train at Leavenwortf
and is said to be MORALLY injured. he
was trying to jump from the tram
when he fell. Morgan's home Is IN
Kane, Pa.
Rain Came Too Late. - Copious
rains that were badly needed fell al
Concordia, but the wheat will not
make over three-fourths of a crop and
oats will be very light. The Hessian
fly has done much damage to wheat
in parts of Cloud county.
In Her Husbands Memory. - The
Lawrence free public library received
from Mrs. Theodore Poehler a gift
of | 200 volumes of new books for the
Juvenile department, and gift of 25O
volumes of German books. The gift
is to be known as the Theodore Poeh'
Ter Memorial library, and is given by
Mrs. Poehler in memory of her late
husband
Auction Drilling Machinery. - Al
Chewyvale the Santa Fe will auction
off a car of oil we'll drill machinery,
valued at about $4,000, to satisfy its
claim for freight. The machinery
was shipped by A. Moore to Cherry
vale from Mountain View, o. T., a
year ago. Moore disappeared then
and has never been found. NO other
claimant has ever appeared.
WinfieId's New Bank. - The old
Winfield National Bank building on
North Main street, now occupied by
the Wells Fargo Express Company as
an Office, was bought by c. l.. Crook
ham, of South Haven, DR.. G. E. Hin
shaw, C. T. Franks, ]. c. Page and
others of local financial Importance,
who will start a new bank at once.
This will make four banks for Win
field.
Horses Burned With Barn.-During
a severe rain storm accompanied by
much thunder and lightning, barn
belonging to M. ]. Glenn, well-to-do
farmer and pioneer of Pottawatomie
county, was struck by lightning and
burned. Seven head of horses were
burned to death. During the night
wind blew down a barn Just north of
here. Four and thirty-hundredths
inches of rain fell during thirty-six
hours.
No Pardon For Sell. - Governor
Hoch declared that he could not par
don Willie Sell. He says in part: Il
have given much thought and study
to this case but frankly confess that
| have come out of it all with no well
defined conviction. 1t is the most
mysterious and difficult problem :
ever undertook to solve. Others
seem to have a clear conviction of
Willie Sells innocence, and still 9TH
ers of his guilt, but l can reach no
clear side. | have doubts of his guilt,
but | have also doubts of his inno-
cence. So for the present | will con-
tent myself with declining to issue
the pardon,
oil Production Large.-The Prairi.
Oil and Gas Company, which last
January strung pipe for an eight-inch
auxiliary pipe line from Bartlesvllle
to the storage tanks in Kansas, and
upon which line it discontinued work
under the famous shut down Or
der. has resumed work of construc'
ton. and a gang of men is laying the
line from Bartlesville to Caney. 1t
will be completed in few weeks. The
Standard Oil Company is taking near
" 1000 barrels of oil day from Kan
sas producers this month than it has
since the last legislature. The pro-
duction is so large, however, that only
a part of it can be run at best.
Adopts the Blake Signal. - Profes
sor Lucien !. B. Lake, of the Univer-
sity of Kansas, has received word that
the German government has adopted
his ocean signaling device, and will
equip the coast of that country with
the invention. This is the system that
has been tested by the United States
government and declared successful
1t is also employed on one of the
American yachts in the race across
the Atlantic.
Drowned in celIar.--At Topeka Els
Their Underwood, the 2-year-old dau
ghter of NJ. M. Underwood, fell into
an abandoned cellar that was filled
with water, in the flooded district
and was drowned. The mother fishet
the body out with a garden rake,
! Bishops Assigned. AT Topeka the