The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1905-07-07

oy, - years Olu, attempted TO cOfnu'
suicide at lola, by shooting himse!
with 32-caliber revolver. Disappoint
ment in love is said to have been tn,
cause.
Tried for Insanity.-Mrs. Lue Rose
berry, a wealthy widow living a
Bayneville, Kan, about IA miles soutf
of Wichita, is on trial in the probate
court for the third time on a charge o.
insanity.
In Operation September 1.-President
w. s. Hyde, of the Characteristic
Refining Company, announces that his
refinery will be producing refined oils
by September /. The plant is now
well under way.
Killed In a Mine. - Roy Bayne, a
young man who was employed as
bumper in the new shaft of the Nc.
Cormick company north of Pittsburg,
was killed by falling down the air
shaft at the mine.
Crop Conditions. At Ashland the
farmers are winding up their harvest
work this week and report good crops
of wheat, rye, barley and oats. The
wheat crop is estimated at 20 to rs
bushels per acre.
Bowers Succeeds TrivIIo. - Insur.
ance Superintendent Charles Luling
appointed William Bowers as clerk
in his office to succeed Harry Trivillo,
who takes job in the bank commits
sioners office July |.
Anthony Issues a Def. - The An
thony baseball team challenges any
amateur club in Kansas or Oklahoma,
or any club in Kansas City, to a series
of three games and will allow the
visiting club 60 per cent of the gate
receipts.
Club Incorporated. - The Chanute
Commercial Club received charter
from Secretary of State Burrows. The
club incorporated to allow it to trans
act business with manufacturing COM
panies located here on better
basis.
From Gasoline Explosion. Mrs Ada
Hart is dead at Salina after an illness
of five weeks, from burns received
from the explosion of a gasoline stove.
In an attempt to get the stove out of
the house, Mrs. Hart was burned from
head to foot A few days after the ac-
cident she gave birth to child.
Will Pension Engineer. - Engineer
Chrysler of Ellis went to Denver last
week and after a medical examination
it was decided that he was incapaci-
tated for further labor and he was
placed on the pension list of the
Union Pacific railway company and
will receive pension of $50 a month
as long as he lives.
Telegraph Wire Used for Phones.
have been made at
the trainmaster's Office by which wire
No. II can be used both as telephone
wire and as a telegraph wire. This
is made possible by cutting out all the
small stations along the line. The SER
vice is chiefly between Emporia and
Topeka. 1t has proved successful and
is great convenience.
Chambers Among Horses. - DR..
Schoenleber, state veterinarian of |
in company with local |
has discovered two cases |
Of CHAMBERS in Saline county. One is |
on the farm of Dick Smith, near town, |
and the other is at the farm of w, S. |
Stark, ten miles southwest of Salina. |
Both horses have been ordered shot, |
and no quarantine will be extablish-
ID, |
Bond Jumper Surrenders. - Henry |
Franklin of Doniphan county, con-
eicted of attempted highway robbery, |,
in February, 1904, and who was out |
On bond pending an appeal to the SUI
preme court, where his sentence was |
affirmed last July, and who Jumped"
his sentence bond and has for the past |
year been fugitive from justice, has |
himself to Sheriff Pur-
cell and was at once lodged in the |
county Jail, pending his removal to the
reformatory, to begin SER
wing his sentence.
Will Elect New Teachers. - The |
Ashland district annual school meet |
ing was held June 2S. In point Of har-
mony it was a great improvement |
over that of year ago. The board |
was instructed not to employ any |
teacher that had been employed dur
ing the past two years. The district !
employs one principal and three teach
ers, paying the former SIS per month
and the latter $40. 1t is not believed |
that any local teachers will be hired
A. M. e. Conference.-The Topeka \
district conference of the A. M. E. |
church convened with Presiding Ed |
er G. A. Griffith in the chair. This |
district extends from Kansas City |
west along the Santa Fe line to Color.
ado, and contains twenty-eight
churches.
Auto Backed of culvert. - At E. |
norado Dr I A McKenzie's auto.