The Chanute times., 1913-05-16
BRIEF MENTION OF
KANSAS NEWS ITEMS

est town in Kansas, were thrown open
to sale the other day, and $S0,0OO
worth of the lots were sold the first
week. Elkhart is in Morton county,
the last town on the newly construct
ed Dodge City & Cimarron Valley
railroad. 1t is to be the division
point and the Santa Fe will not ex-
tend its branch into Oklahoma under
the laws at present in force there.
Leroy, the 3-months-old son of l.. d.
Neal, a farmer of near New Salem,
was smothered to death recently
The mother left the baby asleep in
its crib. During her absence her 2
year-old son piled number OF pill
lows on the cradle, and when she re-
turned to the house she found the
baby dead.
Prosperity had thousand prophets
among the bankers who attended the
recent state meeting at Hutchinson.
From the bankers from every section
of the state came reports of fine
prospects for record-breaking crops
and record breaking volume of trade.
Nelson Bossing, M. E. Smith and
Charles Rowland, representing the
Kansas Wesleyan university, won the
decision at Salina in debate with
Harry o. Brown, Miss Marian Frank
lin and Lyman H. Rupert of Baker
university.
While Walter Ecke, II years old,
son of George Ecke, merchant of
Lawrence, was watching a fraternity
party at Fraternal Aid hall there he
fell from a fire escape three stories
to the pavement below and was killed.
The rain that insured a bumper
wheat crop put the Santa Fe Trail un-
der water and made it necessary to
postpone the Hutchinson-Kansas City
daylight motor trip of Gov. Hodges.
The Missouri Kansas & Texas Rail
road Company is preparing to move
its heavy car repair shops to Parsons
from Sedalia and st. Louis and will
add $4,000 to the local equipment
By vote of 5SS to so franchise
was given at a special election in
Abilene to the Manhattan Gas Com
pany to install an artificial gas plant
there.
President Waters of the State Agri-
cultural college says that it costs a
former 25 cents a pound to produce
fat on cattle. This fat sells for about
eight cents pound.
A list of convicts at the state prison
who showed heroism during the re-
cent fire there is being prepared for
Gov. Hodges. Many of them will be
pardoned or paroled.
independence voted $4,000 to aid
the building of the independence,
Neodesha & Topeka interurban line.
Only 121 votes were cast against the |
proposition.
The Atchison Commercial club is |
seeking cooperation with the farmers |
of the county by inviting them to use
its headquarters for their meetings.
A $4,000 science building, to be
called Lewis Science Hall, will be
added to the equipment of the College
of Emporia this year.
A twoyearold child of Edward
Ratcliff was killed when the storm
wrecked the family home near Wa
thena.
Yates Center is putting up more
new buildings this spring than at
any time in many years.
The army beef contract for next
year was recently let at Fort Riley
at $11.46 a hundred
Mrs. w. A. Mahaffie, pioneer resi-
dent OF Olathe and vicinity is dead.
Esther Evans OF Carthage, Mo-, a
senior in the University of Kansas,
was chosen queen of the Nav fete
conducted by the Y. w. C. A. of the
In being chosen queen
Miss Evans also is elected most pop
ular girl on the hill"
A motor car travelling at a rapid
rate at Wichita struck and killed
Capt. Napoleon B. Blanton, "a years
Did, veteran of the Civil war. The
driver of the machine, which carried
TWO men, hurried away before his
IDENTITY or the number of the license
could be discovered. Captain Blan-
on formerly lived in Kiowa.
Farm hands are in demand in
county. A free employment
agency at Atchison has sent forty-one
men to the country and has on file
numerous other applications for help.
With a shortage so early in the sea
son a harvest hand famine is pre-
licted when the big wheat crop is
-ipe
The First Methodist church of
Wellington has just acquired a lot a
block from the business center of
own and will begin, within the next
hirty days, the erection of a $4,000
,hurch edifice.
The Wichita commissioners have
7oted to accept Andrew Carnegie's
,ffer of $4,000 for a library to be
ocatpd sOuth of the cftv hall in Han, |