The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1907-04-05

outlying pOTllOu VI SIuuuIc, u'ii
aging half a dozen houses and caus-
ing other minor damage. No one
was hurt as far as could be learn.
ed.
Public Park For Concordia. =
George E. Kessler the landscape
artist. who has charge of the Kan
sos City parks, Is in Concordia I'M
der a contract with the Concordia
Park Club to plan the identifying
nf the city park of fourteen acres
which has been turned over to the
club. composed wholly of women,
by the city council.
Two Fort Contracts Let. - Bids
for the construction of the big rid
ing hall at Fort Riley that will be
$50 feet long by 10 feet wide were
opened at the post. A Manhattan
hr,n was the lowest bidder, at
S7T.G00 The constructing quarter
master at Fort Riley was notified
that firm of Junction City was
awarded the contract for the school
Of equitation stable at Fort Riley,
which is to cost $17.770.
Appoints Five Inspectors. - Gov.
Hoch has announced the appoinG
ment of five state deputy oil in
spectors TO serve for the next two
years. or the old inspectors George
S. Boyd, of Garden City, and w. D,
Mitchell, of Fort Scott, were drop
ped from the list and Nick Simeon,
of Pittsburg, and A. l.. Gilbert. OF
Doniphan county, appointed in their
stead. The other inspectors are:
n. A. Turner Colby; Fred H. jew
ell. Topeka, and A. c. Husey Wich-
ita.
Good Sale of Shorthorns.-One OF
The most successful Shorthorn cat
sle sales ever held at Manhattan
took place last week, when thirty
eight head were sold at the State
Agricultural College for an average
OF S15S. said to be double the aver
age made at Shorthorn sales in
Northern Kansas and Southern Ne
braska. OF the whole offering, but
three animals sold below $1,000. Girls
Wilson. of Glasco, Kan, who bought
$4,000 worth, paid the top price
$780, for Mary Bell,
Salt Plant to Be Rebuilt. - JOY
Morton, OF Chicago, president OF
the Hutchinson Salt Company, has
put fifty men to work clearing
away the debris caused by the fire
which destroyed the big Morton
salt plant. Mr.. Morton stated that
work is to start at once in rebuild
ing the plant and that it will have
Il capacity of $500 barrels of salt
daily. The new plant. when i'll
operation, viii have nearly double
the capacity of any plant in the
world and its output will be larger
daily than the entire output of the
Kansas field five years ago.
Lion Chews a Woman. - During
the performance of a wild animal
show at the Crawford theater in
Wichita, Dolly Castle, who does II
turn with two lions, was horribly
mutilated by one of them. Miss
Castle was in the cage with her
Hons. Prince and Bob, when Prince
suddenly leaped on her, threw her.
and getting her forearm in his
mouth tore the flesh from the bone.
Again grabbing the arm he broke
the bone in two places. Professor
Stonewali entered the cage and
Knocked the beast senseless with a
bar of iron. At the first leap of the
animal the audience became panic
stricken and the house was quickly
emptied.
Incubator Baby Is Dead. - Little
Joe Market. the smallest child ever
horn in Wichita, died at the LennoX
SanTtarium The infant at the time
of its birth one week ago weighed
ia pounds and from that time un-
IN the time of its death was kept in
an incubator
Another Big Gssser. - The Ar
kansas Valley Gas Company drilled
in another big gasser in the field
north of Arkansas City. The well
viii produce about four million
cubic feet of gas day. 1t will be
connected with the city mains
which now supply the residents.
Walls Fell, Four Injured. - -Four
men were buried under the falling
walls of a wrecked building at WITCH
tia. A crowd of workmen who were
engaged in wrecking the building
were quitting work when a high
wind which had been blowing all
day blew down the walls. The
most seriously injured are Fred Da
Wis. who was injured internally and
both legs broken. H. H. Montgom
cry. LsrEin Green and H. Whit
were injured internally and about
the head.
Wichita Beacon Is Sued. = The
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