The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1906-02-23


inch of snow fell The wheat fields
of this county are beginning to show
the need of moisture. There has been
very little rain or snow on them since
fall
Killed by Engine. - Earl Moss, a
Rock Island switchman, was struck
by an engine and instantly killed
while working in the yards at Belle
Vile. He leaves widow and one
small child.
Two Badly Hurt in Wreck. - c. V.
Perry and Nicholas Baxter, eastern
home-seekers, were dangerously hurt
and several other persons were slight
ly injured in wreck on the Panhan-
die division of the road near Kiowa'
Kan.
Boy Slabs Another.-Jesse LAYERS,
10 years old, was stabbed in the leg
by Harold Hart another boy, at Eure-
ka. LAYERS was on his way home
from Sunday school, when Hart
knocked him down and stuck knlfe
in his leg.
Death From Burns.-Mrs. S. H. An
drews, ole of the oldest residents OIL
Lawrence, died from the effects OF
being burned week ago. her
clothes caught fire from natural gas
stove. This is the first natural gas
accident in the town.
Profits From Eggs. - Mrs. Edith
Reader, of Derby, believes that IL
pays to raise hens, and she certainly
can give a good reason for her bellel'
During the year just ended she SOLD
1900 dozen eggs from 275 hens, re-
ceiving therefor the sum of $2l7.lo.
Two Companies Mustered Out. 80
Company C, at Sterling, and Com
pany H, at Ellsworth, were mustered
out of the Kansas militia on. account
of lack of interest and inability to
keep up efficient organizations. Gar
den City will get one of the COM
panies. What town will get the otn-
err is not yet settled.
Will Breed Pheasants. - Expert
ments in the breeding of game pirds
will begin shortly at the Kansas state
Agricultural College. About thirty
birds of the variety known as Chinese
or Torquatus pheasant will be secur-
ed to start with. The state game COM
mission will bear the expense OF nj
ting up the enclosures and breeding
pens.
Haskell to Use Natural Gas. - SUI
perintendent H. B. PEARS of Haskell
institute, at Lawrence, is considering
using natural gas for fuel and power
at the institute. He has Just return
ed from an inspection of Chilocco In
dian school, where the natural gas is
used and has fouIs1 it is satisfactory
Mr.. PEARS will consider the Eudora
wells before piping the gas.
Fifty Years of Kansas. - John W..
Proctor, Of Brown county, has round
ed out half century as a citizen OF
Kansas. In that time he has improv-
ed nine places, put in thirty-nine
crops, buried two wives, six children,
drove cattle across, or part way
across. the plains seven trips, pack
ed" musket in the Thirteenth Kan
sas regiment three years and now
resides with his third wife and two
small children, on the Horton and
Hiawatha road. He remembers when
he often crossed the ground upon
which Hiawatha has since been built
through prairie grass knee high. ,
Money Belonged to Kansas. - A. A.
GODDARD. formerly attorney general,
paid to the state treasury the sum
of s257.SO, which represents the in
terest earned OF. $4,000 of Comanche
county bonds after the time they were
taken I'D by the state and before the
purchase was approved by the state
board of school commissioners. The
recent investigation of the state
treasury established the fact that the
money had been paid to Mr.. GODDARD,
and that he was not entitled to it. The
states money was used to take up
the bonds. and the accountants re-
port showed that the state was en-
titled to the interest. This is the first
money which has been paid to the
state as a result of the recent investi-
cation,
Quarter Cost Ten Years. - Ten
years in the penitentiary for 20 cents
is the fate of Roy King, young man
tried before Judge Stillwell at Cha
mute for snatching purse from some
Chanute women one night a few
weeks ago. King pleaded guilty and
will be given the minimum sentence
for highway robbery, ten years. The
pocketbook taken contained $1.76, and
when arrested King had only spent
| % cents of that amount. Immediate
" after King pleaded guilty another
man admitted stealing an overcoat at
a Chanute hotel. and was sentenced
to six months in the county jail, the
charge being that of petit larceny.
Quail Shipment Expensive - viii
liam Howard, a resident of Burton
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