The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1906-05-11

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field day meet will be given at the
Athletic park May G.
Waverly Out of coal.-On account
of the coal strike and scarcity of coal
it has been deemed expedient by the
city to close down the light plant at
10: 80 o'clock until new supply can
\ be secured or until oil burners can
be put in the furnaces.
Receives Its Charter. = The Frank
lin County Mutual Farm Insurance
company has received from the state
it's charter. The charter gives the
capital stock of company at $15O,O00
| The company now has $125,000 insur-
ance. It's policies take effect June
| 1St.
! Killed at Local Gathering.-At a So
cial gathering at the home of Mrs.
Samples, two miles east OF Caney, II.
| c. Brewer was stabbed twice in the
breast, dying almost instantly. A
warrant has been issued Tor the ar
rest of the man supposed to have done
the stabbing.
To Corral the Neosho.-There is a
bill before congress for the appropria-
ton of $4,000 for the survey of the
! Neosho river from the Indian Terri
| tory line to Emporia, but large per
cent Of the land owners in the over
| flow bottoms in Labette and Chero-
kee counties have tired waiting for
this appropriation.
No Wolf Market. - Something over
twenty live young wolves have been
brought in to the Washington county
clerk the past week for the bounty
and the clerk is kicking about run
ming slaughter house. The clerk
says: Don't bring your wolves in
alive. Kill them and bring in the
scalp-it is worth Just as much as the
live wolf for bounty purposes"
New Depot at Garden City. - The
Santa Fe has asked Mayor Miller II
the crossing at the foot of Union ave-
nue. can be closed in the event that
new depot is built there. The road
says that owing to the congested con-
dition of affairs in this city it is inn
possible to get the necessary build
ings on the ground that the road is
now using.
Carnegie Gives $25, 900. Andrew
Carnegie has agreed to give $4,000
to the permanent endowment fund OF
Southwest Kansas Conference Col
lege, Methodist, of Winfield, on con-
dition that the friends of the college
raise $4,000. Nearly all of that
amount has been already been pledg-
ed by the conference, and all of the
endowment will be up before this
years commencement.
Prosperity at Hutchinson. - Hutch
inson has raised $150000 in moNey to
build car line and electric light
plant. This is piece of financing
which should make every citizen OF
the city proud of the men who have
done this work The car line and
electric light plant will be built and
built this year. The last of the
SS0.000 bonds of the road are sold and
the stock subscriptions and the aid
voted by the city completes the
financing of the biggest proposition
undertaken here in years.
To Use independence cement.-In
dependence. Kan, will furnish the
government with 6,2O0 barrels of Port
land cement for use in connection
with the construction of the Carlsbad
irrigation project in New Mexico. The
secretary of the interior approved two
contracts entered into between the
supervising engineer of the reclama-
tion service and NJ. S. Groves for
$500 and 700 barrels Of cement re-
spectively. Mr.. Groves bid in each
case was $140 per barrel, f, o. b. cars
at Independence.
browns Under Water Tank.-"Rug"
Yocum, brakeman on the Missouri
Pacific railway, was killed at Greeley,
in a freight wreck, in which eleven
cars and the engine were overturned.
Yocum lived at Osawatomie, Kan,
and is survived by widow. The
train ran into a defective switch and
all the cars left the track. Yocum
was found under the water tank, and
he is supposed to have been drowned,
as he seemed to have been uninjur-
ed. The body lay in depression and
the water covered the face. The 9TH
err trainmen escaped injury.
Western Kansas Land vaIues.-The
price of western Kansas land is said
to be on gradual upward incline.
Local agents for land in the western
part of the state claim that land that
could have been bought three years
ago for $3.50 an acre is now COM
handing a price close to $50 an acre.
Excursions to western Kansas are
run every Tuesday over the Union
Pacific and there is seldom an excur-
sion that does not take at least
dozen prospective buyers from Mar
shall county. Many of them buy land
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