The Chanute times., 1913-05-09
BRIEF MENTION OF
KANSAS NEWS ITEMS


dragged four blocks when a hors
they were driving became frightene
at passing automobile and upset tn
rig. The woman suffered spraine
ankle broken rib and sever
bruises besides possible internal in
juries. Her two-months-old baby wa
found on the ground uninjured, Stuck.
was bruised
The opening of Winfeld's Whit
Way was celebrated by parade ant
open air band concert Throngs o
people blocked the streets, many com
ing from the country and the smaller
towns in the county to see the illumi
nation. Flags decorated all the elec
trio light pedestals and many of the
stores and public buildings.
Sheriff Ralph Martin of Cherokee
county seized a carload of beer al
Corona the other day. The beer was
shipped from Cincinnati and the
sheriff has kept track of it from St
Louis over the Missouri Pacific road
An injunction was served on Sheriff
Martin restraining him from destroy
ing the beer.
The handsome brick and cut stone
depot, built by the Atchison, Topeka
& Santa Fe railroad at Harper, has
just been opened Harper is so proud
of the new building which cost $685.
600, that it had a big celebration, fol-
lowed by a dinner which was attended
by a number of officials of the road.
Mrs. John Paxton, a resident Of
Smith county for forty years, was
burned to death at Smith Center while
helping her son fight prairie fire.
He started the fire when flames from
a trash heap he was burning spread
to the dry grass of pasture.
A survey is being made for ditch
to straighten the Delaware river be-
tween Muscotah, Atchison county, and
Arlington. A petition for the inn
provement under the new law has
been largely signed.
The work on Lawnview stock farm,
south of Olathe, has been greatly
]essened by the installation of an
electric light plant. The plant, in
addition to lighting buildings on the
farm, will furnish power for the
pumps and machinery.
A million dollars or more was paid
the farmers of Cheyenne county for
their 1912 wheat crop. That estimate
is made by bankers of the county.
Besides the wheat sold considerable
was kept by the farmers for seed.
The 4-year-old son of Doctor and
Mrs. Amend is in the hospital at
Wichita suffering from cyanide poison
ing due to eating the kernels of peach
stones. He was given immediate
treatment and is getting better
S. l.. Mcknight OF Humboldt has
received from Walter Johnson the ball
used by Johnson in the opening game
of the season at Washington. While
there last fall Johnson promised to
send the ball to Mcknight
Poison dock in dish of greens was
fatal to Mrs. Martha Campbell at
Council Grove. She picked the greens
and not knowing that the dock was
poisonous cooked it.
District Judge Langmade recently
the jury at Phillipsburg
because it was time for spring plant !
ing, and set all the cases for trial |
at the fall term.
A number of Syracuse business men
and farmers are endeavoring to de- |
wise plan to harness the western
Kansas wind for the production of |
power.
A Leavenworth woman recently |
sold an old ice box left her by her |
parents to a peddler Upon exami-
nation of the interior a wallet con-
tanning $10750 was found. The wo-
man happened to be near and prompt.
ly declared the sale off.
st. John is a city of twins, accord
ng to Charles Sligar, himself the |
tather of a pair of newborn babes. |
There are now IS sets of twins under |
) years old there.
The Rev. Fred A. Line, for six
years pastor of the Universalist !
,hurch at Junction City, has accept
ed a call to Atlanta, Ga, and will
cave there September /.
The binding twine trust has taken
advantage Of the fire at the Kansas
and has hiked the price
lp from eight and a half to eleven
and a half cents a pound.
Willie May, years old, while rid
ng a pony on his fathers ranch at
Iardtner, was thrown when the pony
ried to leap a barbed wire fence.
The boy became tangled in the wire
md was so severely cut that he died
n a few hours He was the son of
wealthy ranchman
The women voters Of Lawrence
,layed an important part in the adop-
ion Of commission government for
hat city at the recent special elec-
ion. The proposition carried by a