The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1905-04-21
KANSAS COMMENT

weeks. 1t will be supplied by the
Kansas Natural Gas Company. The
pipe line is connected up to The city
limits.
so Bales of Cotton Burned. -
Rock Island car containing fifty bales
of cotton burned at Wichita. The
loss on the cotton will amount 10
about $4,000. The car was in train
No. So, and was just leaving Wichita
near the Union stock yards. The cot
ton was consigned to Burlington q
Co., at Watuppa, Mass, and was
shipped from Shawnee, o. T.
Try Again For Pardon. - Another
effort will be made to secure par
don for Willie Sells. The application
will be presented to Governor Hoch
on May 1. Mrs. Hanna Sylvester is
pushing the case. Sells is serving a
hang sentence for killing his
father. mother, sister and brother
near Chanute in March, 1886. He was
a mere boy and was convicted on cir
cumstantial evidence.
Dairymen at Saline. - The Eight
eenth annual session of the state
Dairy Association met at Salina. The
first meeting was well attended, many
of the officers being present. 1t is
estimated that $50 visitors will be
present. The meeting was addressed
T. Ly;,,,1Non rNrnciI0nt nf the
Salina Commercial Club, and Hon. j.
"A. Glover, associate editor of Hoard's
Dairyman, Atkinson, Wis.
Guaranteed 1000 Sheep. - c. J.
keshner, state live stock inspector,
arrived at Emporia and put 1000
sheep in the Santa Fe stock yards
under quarantine, claiming that they
are suffering from scabies. The sheep
came from the Southwest and were
unloaded to give them rest. The
law requires that sheep so affected
must be sheared and dipped before
resuming their journey to market,
and a large force of men are now
working on the sheep.
; Oil Operations at standstiI. - At
Humboldt all the oil operations in this
part of the oil fields are practically
stopped There is no drilling going
on and all the wells west of the Santa
Fe tracks are disconnected, and none
are being pumped. P. j. Mckinley
the gauger, says that he has been
laid off. as his territory was in the
cut off district How long this thing
is going to last is hard to tell, but it
is crushing the life out of many COM
panies, and throwing hundreds of peo-
pie out of employment.
Col. Godfrey Leaves Fort Riley
Colonel e. S. Godfrey, commandant
of Fort Riley, left the fort for Omaha
where he will be in command OF the
department ofthe Missouri during the
absence of the department command
er, Brigadier General Whit, who will
take a vacation In the absence of
Colonel Godfrey, Lieutenant Colonel
James Parker will be in command at
Fort Riley. Colonel Parker arrived
here this week from st. Louis, where
he was on duty as military secretary
of the Northern division.
Deserves More Prominence. - An
other institution in Kansas that de-
serves greater prominence is the Anti
Horse Thief Association. 1t is an in
ter-state association covering Kansas,
Missouri, Oklahoma and Indian Terri
tory. There are districts in Kansas
where the association has been so well
perfected that it is almost impossible
for a man with a stolen horse to get
away. A number of captures by that
organization has given black eye to
that old idea that the simplest way
to get horse is to steal it.
Extension of Lenora 5ranch.-Dan-
lei Eicher has received a letter from
the Missouri Pacific headquarters, st.
Louis, informing him that the COM
pany is seriously considering the ex-
tension of the Lenora branch on west
to Denver, following the county lines
between the north teir of Kansas
counties, and the next tier south, and
asking him if he thought the town
ships along the proposed line would
vote bonds in aid of the proposition.
Charged With Murder.-Charles H.
Stokesberry, the supposed murderer
of Charles Ferguson last July was ar
rested south of Ellis and taken to
Wakeeney. After his arrest Stokes
berry had very little to say of the
murder, but since the disappearance
of Ferguson, it is said he told several
times of having committed the crime
and said that Ferguson's body would
be plowed up one of these times. One
theory advanced for the crime is that
the murdered man was about to give
information regarding the alleged cat
tie stealing that had been going on for
some time southwest of here and in
which it was alleged that Stokes
berry was implicated.
Don't Want Burton to Speak. - A
few weeks ago the G. A. r. post OF
Beloit invited Senator ]. r. Burton
to deliver an address Memorial day