The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1905-08-25
KANSAS COMMENT

Drowned While SEEMING. - Ernest
Dunmire, who lives at 1911 East Vir
ginia street, Kansas City, Kan, was
drowned in the Marais des Cygnes
river two miles south of LaCygne
while SEEMING for minnows.
Bio Gas Transaction.-The biggest
gas transaction in the history OF Kan
sas since the sale of lots at Kanopolls
occurred the other day, when the Peo-
pies Gas Company sold out their
Montgomery county interests 1or
$1,000,000.
Six Novices Take Vows. - The
eighth annual retreat at Nazareth con-
vent. at Concordia, has closed. Eight
young women were received into no.
vitiate of the Sisters of st. Joseph
and six novices took their final VOWS.
The sermon was by Rev. NJ. j. Hof-
erer of Chicago, who conducted the
retreat.
Hutchinson Census. - D. G. Pres
grave. who is in charge OF the new
directory being compiled by the H.
L. Polk company of Detroit. says that
his figures will prove that Hutchinson
has nearly if not quite 10000 people
at this time. There is chance that
Hutchinson has enough people, II all
of elem are counted. to make this a
city of the first class.
A Paint Plant. - Coffeyville has
landed a new industry. A firm or
Kansas City, Kan. has secured 90
acres in addition to the town, con-
venient to the Missouri Pacific tracks.
The industry will bring 300 workmen
and the immediate expenditure of the
company for the erection of buildings,
which are to cover thirteen acres OF
the tract and the coupling OF the
same ready for the carrying on of the
work of the immense factory will be
$25O.0Oo.
Homemade Engine. - The three
Woods boys of Russell have built a
homemade gasoline engine to run
the family washing machine, and it
works all right, too. The remarkable
thing about the engine is that it is a
combination of a great many pieces
of machinery and other things. They
have in it parts of lawn mower,
cream separator, typewriter and the
governor is made from an old umbrel-
la, while for springs they have taken
them from window shade rollers.
Knocking on Irvine Plant.-Senator
Porter, of Montgomery, says a scheme
is on foot to knock out the binding
Irvine plant at the state penitentiary.
Just who is behind it he says he
doesn't know, but intimates that, in
his opinion, the Irvine trust might
know. The only way it can be at
tackled, he says, is for the state audi
tor to decline to pay any bills for the
plant. The supreme court knocked
out the oil refinery because it was
the main thing, not the incidental, to
the branch penitentiary. 1t might de-
eide that the binding twine plant is
incidental to the Lansing prison, and
is necessary to keep convicts employ
ed.
Small Banks Increasing. Banks
are becoming numerous in small Kan
sas towns. Men who have not any
thing to do and can rake up from
5000 to $500 are organizing small
bank. Under the law the capital must
be at least $4,000, but that is easy
to get The farmers put up most of
it. The promoter never has to put
in more than $500 and some promot-
ers do not even put in a cent. And
a strange thing about it is that the
establishment of so many small banks
doesn't cut down the deposits of the
old banks. The money for the new
banks seems to come from the farm.
ers.
Streets of NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. is
being made to establish a uniform and
symmetrical plan for the streets of
which, if adopted, will greatly beauti-
fly the physical aspect of the whole
town. Although the streets may not
be paved or finished otherwise, at
present, it has been planned that the
driveway of each street shall be laid
out forty feet wide, with thirty feet
for parking allowed on both sides
The curbing all over the city, in
every instance, is to be the standard
curb and gutter combined which is
made of concrete. The driveway then
can be kept in a beautiful condition
by steam rollers or other means. The
streets in independence are beauti
fully shaded. Pride has been taken
in keeping the trees trimmed and in
a condition to shade and beautify the
streets.
Died on Wedding Day. - Frsnci:
Brogan, Lyon county pioneer, died
on his fifty-hrst wedding anniversary
at his home in Hartford, after an i'll
ness that lasted several months. Hi:
widow and five children survive. Mr.
Brogan was born in Ireland, ant
came to America when 20 years old,