The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1906-01-19
Boom Western Kansas.

terests of town and county.
Every One a Classic. = Secretary
Coburn says that every one of the
papers read so far at the annual
meeting of the Kansas board of agrl
culture is classic.
For illegal Fishing. = Two men
Huffman and Rumford, have been ar
rested in Strong City for illegal fish
ing on information given by Deputy
Fish Warden, McGown.
All Pay up But one.-The German
Life Insurance Company paid in
$4,000 Devlin insurance money to
the receiver of the failed First Ma
tional Bank. The Mutual Life, OF
New York is the only company that
has not paid up.
Gasser at EImdale.-The strongest
gas we'll yet. discovered was brought
in by l.. b. Breese, on his lot in Elm
dale, six miles west of Cottonwood
Falls. This is the third well for Elm
dale and is strong enough to supply
that town with light and fuel.
Killed $50 Jack Rabbits.-The resi-
| dents of the German settlement just
north of Grinnel held another rabbit
hunt at which $50 jack rabbits were
killed. Twelve men on side took
part. A wire drag was used to raise
the rabbits, extending from two teams
driven at parallel.
Rush for Government Land. The
rush for government lands has been
increasing at an amazing rate. The
homestead, filings at the Dodge City
land Office for the quarter just COM
pleted numbered 1888. During the
same quarter for the year preceding
there were 39S entries and that SEEM
ed like quite a rush at the time. Yes
terday IS claims were filed upon at
the Office here.
Atchison Man Rewarded. - Franz
Floyd, carpenter at Atchison, re-
Gently shared his work and took into
his home supposedly poor stranger
giving him what little he could spare,
and otherwise befriending him. The
man has since fallen heir to for
tune of $4,000, consisting of farms
and other property. The stranger
has employed Floyd to manage one
of his farms near Horton for him.
Connect Kansas Towns. = The
Hutchinson Interurban Railway Com
pany, just organized by home people,
has applied for a charter, the capt.
tai stock being 100000, half of which
has already been subscribed by
Hutchinson people. The company
will ask for city aid to the amount Of
$4,000 and build seven miles of line
within the city, extending other lines
in the country to Haven, Brady Lake,
Nickerson, Huntsville and Sterling.
PIanviIIe's New Church.-The new
Christian church was dedicate,. at
Plainville under the most suspicious
circumstances. Elder l.. l.. Carpent-
err of Wabash, Ind, conducted the
dedicatory services A good program
interspersed with special music had
been prepared and was carried out
in full. Although the day was not
a very bright one the building, whose
seating capacity is about $50, was
tested to its utmost at each service.
The new church is a beautiful edl-
fee and the people of Plainville are
proud of their new house of worship.
Raw Land $21 Per Acre.-Peter De-
Boer, a well-to-do farmer living two
and one-half miles southwest of Grin
mel, purchased a raw. unbroken quar-
ter section of school land for $500,
an average of S21 per acre. and in so
doing paid what is probably the high
est price ever paid for quarter Sec
ton of unimproved Cove county land.
Good land here sells readily at SIS
per acre but never has land been so
high here and in such great demand
as at present. The present outlook
for a bumper wheat crop the coming
season is creating the high price and
the demand.
Not Ready for Neutrality-suspicious.
al Manager Hurley, of the Santa Fe,
said in reply to a query that his COM
pany is not yet satisfied with the prac-
teal character of the electric motors
that they want something that will
carry two cars all right, and that they
will wait awhile before putting on
motors.
Will Call on Treasurers.-Seth G.
Wells, auditor of state, and T. T.
Kelly, state treasurer decided to call
on the county treasurers for a por-
ton of the state taxes now due the
state. Owing to the fact that the
county treasurers have not yet made
their reports to the auditor regard
ing the amount of money they have
on hands belonging to the state it
was impossible to exactly follow the
provisions of the new depository law,
because the auditor has no, basis on