The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1906-04-13
Hoch at Pltt.bura July 4. : Presi.

Ahead or Time.-Doyle township l.
Marion county is rushing the season
1t has nominated its township officers
already and certified their .nomina
lions to the county clerk. TOWNSHIP
officers are usually nominated in Sep
TENDER.
No New Trial. - In the Douglas
county district court Judge c. A
Smart denied a motion for a new
trial in the incubator baby" case
first because the matter is now be
yond the jurisdiction Of this court
and, second, because of the tendency
of the action in the supreme court. =
Stealing Their CoaI.-Fort Leaven'
worth has coal supply sufficient TO
last for few days only. or ship
ment of thirteen cars from Weir City
the Frisco railroad is said this week
to have confscated six. The remain
ing seven arrived here. Weir CITY
operators are under contract to sup
ply the post coal for year. The con-
sumption is more than fifty tons
daily.
Pardons Egg stealer. - Gov. Hoch
issued a pardon to Robert Graham,
who has been serving six months in
the Atchison county Jail for stealing
two cases of eggs out of a freight car
Graham's term will expire in the lat
ter part of April, and as his father
is seriously i'll in Kansas City, the
pardon was issued on condition that
Graham go to Kansas City to take
care of his father. +.
Bourbon county's OH strike.-Re-
ports received say that big flow OF
oil has been struck northwest of Bron-
son, Bourbon county. H. P. and H,
E. Clay of this county put hole
down $50 feet and have secured 5O0
feet of oil sand according to the lat
est report from there. The results
are causing a good deal of excitement
and other prospect holes are to be
sunk at once.
Wichita's Big Roundhouse. - With
force of men and teams, the Mis-
souri, Pacific Railway Company start
ed work on it's new yards in the north
part of the city. The yards are to
cost $G5,000 A large twenty stall
roundhouse, with machine shops, will
be built adjoining the new yards. In
all the company expects to construct
over s15O,O00 worth of improvements
here during the coming summer.
Pioneer "reminiscences. - In pion-
eer "reminiscences of Cawker City and
the Solomon Valley it is learned that
Judge Clark A. Smith, now supreme
court judge, taught the first regular
district school in that town as early
as 1912. In those good old times
people came to Cawker City for dis
lance of $50 miles for their mail, and
it is said that in 1873 the deposits in
the money order business alone were
as high as $4,000 and $4,000 week.
Kansan on Panama Road. - Franz
Wickham, formerly of Mound City,
has been made foreman of copper
smiths on the Panama railroad head
quarters Empire, Canal Zone. Wick
ham writes to his kin here that the
climatic conditions there have been
largely exaggerated. He says the
is not particularly dis
agreeable. Wickham says that the
American sanitary commission is do
ing a vast amount of work there cut
ting away brush and draining. He
says the buzzards are as thick as
sparrows in Kansas, and that they
are valued and protected as scaveng-
ers, fine of $25 being imposed for
killing one of them.
Had Faith and Pitched In. - ]. r.
Blythe, who lives four miles south of
White City, added another section of
land to his holdings, making 5000
acres that he now owns. Mr.. Blythe
landed in Morris county twenty years
ago without any money to speak of,
but at the present time can count up
his possessions thusly: Three thous-
and acres of land, 400 head of cattle,
thousands of bushels Of corn and
wheat, scads of money in the bank,
and he doesn't know how many hogs
If anyone wants to know how he
made all this they will tell you he
had faith in himself and in Kansas,
pulled off his coat and pitched in.
Lawrence Wins the Flag. - Notice
was received in Lawrence that Mrs.
w. E. Stanley. state regent of the
Daughters of the American Revolu-
ton for Kansas. and Miss Grace
Meeker. state secretary of the same
organization, had awarded to the Cen
trail school in Lawrence the prize Of
fered by the Daughters of the Ameri-
can Revolution for the largest per
CAPITA contribution to the Santa Fe
trail marking fund, collection taken
in the schools of Kansas. of any