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

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of Mayor Anthony, all the gambling
and policy establishments in Leaven
worth have been closed and most OF
the slot machines taken out of the
! saloons.
Topeka's New Police Chief. Al
Topeka Mayor Davis appointed A. G
Goodwin, a grain dealer and eX-eXalt
ed ruler of the local Elks, as chief OF
police to success Frank Stahl, the
ioint-brster
viii He Make Good ?-Kansas rail
| lola attorney who claims to have dis
| covered a flaw in the anti-discrimina-
| tion law. If he makes good he is
in line for a good job
Big Fire at Edna. The town of
| Edna. IS miles west of Chetopa, is
burned. Eight buildings were de-
stroyed The heaviest losers were R.
T. McGhee, general store, $4,000; H.
V. Harden, grocer, $1,000; Silkott
Harness company $1,000; Hunts bar
Der shop, j. Saffie's office, the Clark
Drug company and the postoffice. The
loss was about $4,000. The town is
practically wiped out.
Long Coming Home.-Senator Long
and family expect to return to Medi-
cine Lodge on the 18th of the present
month. The senator will remain In
Kansas until the latter part Of June,
when he will join the congressional
junket to the Philippines. During the
interim lie will deliver an address on
Decoration day and numerous
speeches at high school graduations
throughout the state and on other &C.
casions
PaoIa Free Delivery. - The Paola
postoffice is now in the free delivery
class, the receipts for the year end
ing March 81, 1905 having exceeded
100000 The total amount received
for stamps and boxes was $10,1043O.
The business is still steadily increas-
The business is still steadily in
creasing, the receipts for the first
part Of last year. There was
also an increase in the money order
business. The reports show that
$4,000 were issued and about 100000
paid.
Wheat in Good Shape. - 1.-The
crops in Western Kansas are in won
derfully fine shape this spring, - said
Z. E, Ames, of Norton, national bank
examiner for Kansas. In the
twenty-five years that I have been
travelling around through Kansas |
have never seen them better. Two or
three good showers are really all that
is needed for the wheat now. What
we are praying for, in view of the eX-
periences of the last two or three
years. is that we don't get too much
rain.
Socialists Defend Will. The state
committee of the Socialist party issn
ed a statement generating State
ecretary-Treasurer Thomas Will and
the Wichita society of completely in
an alleged plot to wreck the Socialist
party in Kansas. The statement will
be followed by the submission of re-
ferendum on whether or not the char
ter of Kansas City, Kan, local shall
be revoked Members of that organi-
cation are said to be responsible for
the charges against the state officer
and the Wichita local.
Reprimand Causes Suicide.-Philip
Carney, a 19-year-old boy, who lives
at Westphalia, near Garnett, commit
ted suicide by shooting himself with
a shotgun. Young Carney had been
blowing that morning and in some
way his team got the best of him and
run away, doing considerable damage
to one of the horses. His father re-
primanded him and thought the mat
ter had passed, as the boy took his
gun and said that he was going hunt
ing. He failed to return home and
his parents went out to look for him
afterwards and found his body
about a mile from his home. He had
cut a forked stick and placed the
muzzle of the gun close to his breast
and pressed the trigger with the
stick.
Power Company Enjoined.-Papers
were served on DR.. C. X. Raber, presi-
dent of the Republican River Hy-
draulic Power company at Junction
City in an injunction proceeding
bought by Mrs. Jean Lander of Thur
mont, Maryland, in the circuit court
of the United States for the district
of Kansas. The action was brought
to enjoin the company from building
a dam on the Republican river on the
Landers farm.
Fighting Gas Combine.-W. A. De-
Ford returned to ottawa from
New York, where he has been
helping the fight against the New
York city gas combine. He will
return East soon.
Mineral Water Collection. - A col
lection of mineral waters from all
over the world has just been acquir
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