The Chanute times., 1905-02-17

rected the attorney general to begin
action against the city of Lawrence to
recover 100000 due on delinquent
bonds held by the school fund. Law
renee issued these bonds as bonus
to secure the location of the state uni
versity. The bonds were placed in the
state school fund. Later Lawrence
lobbied a law through the legislature
providing that when 1t had paid inter-
est equal in amount to the face OF the
bonds it should be relieved of paying
the principal. 1t paid 100000 in in
terest and then quit, claiming 1t had
complied with the law. The bonds are
still held by the school fund.
Pay Price Raid Scrip.-At the regu-
lar meeting Of Hiawatha post G. A. X.
the following resolution was offered
and after some discussion, unani-
mously adopted: Whereas, Kansas
in her early days was heroic and hon.
est though poor, and, whereas, she is
now rich and prosperous and ought TO
be rich and honest; therefore, be it re-
solved, that we petition the legislature
| of Kansas, now in session, to take such
action as will, without further un-
necessary delay, make just and equit-
able settlement with the holders OF
the Price raid script.
Sncw Extinguished Flames. - Mag
gle Linn was badly burned at her
home at Fort Scott. She was in the
! cellar examining the water pipes,
which were frozen, when the candle
which she carried set fire to some
papers. In attempting to eXtinguish
the flames her clothing caught fire.
She ran into the yard and buried her.
self in a snowbank to put out the
flames. She was badly burned about
the chest and is in critical condi-
tion.
Knocked Him 80 Feet.-George D.
Vaughn, Santa Fe brakeman, mad
a miraculous escape from instant
death in the railroad yards at We'll
lington. To avoid an approaching
passenger train he stepped on what
he supposed was clear track, but
which proved to be the one on which
the train was coming. The pilot
knocked him thirty feet, breaking
one leg and ilfiicting other serious
injuries.
Mustache Club. The latest freak
to break out on humanity's skin is
mustache club at Pratt. The first
member who shaves his labial adorn-
ment off is required to pay one dollar
to every other member.
New Way to Collect. - A Cloud
county merchant he's purchased
camera and is making some good col
lections by threatening to take pict-
ures of his delinquent customers and
hang them up in his store labeled.
Bond Issue Carries. - At Garnett
the bond proposition carried and
$4,000 will now be spent in enlarg-
ing the present city water works
plant and running pipe to Cedar
creek, three miles west.
To Aid Refinery. - Petitions have
been sent from Cloud county to Sena-
tor Peck and Representative Briefly
asking them to give their support to
the project for the establishment of
state oil refinery.
Prominent Man Dies. - Judge
George w. Nimocks, mayor of this
city in the early days, Judge OF the
district court and county attorney
for two terms, died at his Great Bend
home.
Good and Prosperous.-LaCrosse is
advertising for occupants for both its
iail and the county poor farm. They
are both vacant and the keepers are
likely to lose their jobs.
On Artificial Ice. - Concordia will
90 through the year on artificial ice.
Not a pound of river ice has been put
up.
Expect Early Spring. - Jewell City
is looking for spring. Three new
milliners have struck the town.
A Good Law.-The house live stock
committee has recommended for pas
sage a bill giving farmers the right to
kill sheep-killing dogs without con-
sent of the owners of the dogs.
Cleaned Up Calendar. - The house
omnibused forty local bills on one roll
call. This cleaned up the local calen-
dar. The Waggener bill ceding the
states ownership of coal under the
| Missouri river to the Atchison Coal
Mining Company was in the local list
but was not passed. 1t was placed
under general bills and must run the
gauntlet of a separate roll call.
Whole Train Deraled. - Chicago,
Rock Island G. Pacific passenger train
No. 6, east-bound, was wrecked two
miles west of Labanon. Running for
ty-fiye miles an hour, the engine left
+ha trook ond the full train of eight