The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1913-03-28
BRIEF PARAGRAPHS OF
KANSAS HAPPENINGS

olu, IHe VIE OF OdllHd physician,
died from a stroke of paralysis.
Mrs. Mary Upton of near Scammon
died of injuries received when an
electric car struck buggy in which
she was riding.
Chris Spatz, &C years old, who SUI
perintended the casting of Iron work
of the Kansas City Union Depot in
1877, died here.
Nora Weese, years old, was
burned probably fatally while at play
in her home alone at Wichita Her
clothing caught fire from the kitchen
range.
The 400-acre farm of Willard H.
Jones in Dayton Township, Salina,
was sold to j. T. Eellards for $4,000.
1t is one of the best forms in cen
trail Kansas.
Nineteen prisoners were recently
released from the state penitenuary
on parole in one day on the order of
Gov Hodges. Their names were not
made public.
A new motor fire engine just bought
by the town of Beattie was burned
in a fire which destroyed the electric
tight plant building and garage where
1t was kept. The loss was $4,000.
An epidemic of scarlet fever has
caused the closing of the schools at
Rozel, twenty miles. west of Larned.
Authorities believe they have the di-
sease under control, but fear to per-
init public gatherings.
A valuable riding horse in the |
mounted service school at Fort Riley, !
was injured severely in an exhibition
in the riding school when he mistook |
a reflection in a mirror for a hurdle
and tried to jump it.
Mrs. Elizabeth Logan, 70 years old,
is dead. Mrs. Logan came to Leaven-
worth from Ireland so years ago.
Her husband. Patrick Logan, was a
contractor at Fort Leavenworth for
25 years.
Frank Jackson, a drug clerk 60
years old, took strychnine in an alley
hospital He told the police he was
tired of being in debt. His father
was a well to do merchant at Neo-
desha.
What is believed to be the largest
pile of corn ever gathered on a west
ern Kansas farm is on the place Of
Roy Irwin, near Lewis, Pawnee coun-
ty. Mr.. Irwin shucked last season 500
acres of corn which averaged be-
tween thirty-five and forty bushels an
acre. The pile contains more than
10000 bushels.
Nearly all the old national officers
of the Sons and Daughters of Justice
we're reelected at the convention of
the order at Pittsburg. George G..
Lockwood of Emporia succeeds him
self as president; w. w. Walker of
as secretary. and ]. c.
P. Smith of Miltonvale was elected
medical director. go
Henry ]. Aten died at his home in
Hiawatha of uraemic poisoning. He
had been i'll only few days. He
was born in Fulton county, illinois,
and was a member of Company II,
Twenty-eighth Illinois Infantry. He 1
came to Hiawatha in 1870. At the
time of his death he was grand treas
urerer of the grand encampment |. o.
D. F. of Kansas and member of the
finance committee of the subordinate
lodge I. o. o. F.
Erick Erickson, laborer, So years ]
I'D, sustained fatal injuries when he {
ell from a shale bank at an Atchi-
son brick yard. He died within a ,
ew hours. Erickson was swept :
over the bank when a rock ledge !
It the top gave way.
The suit of five railroads seeking
o nullify the Kansas Oil Rate Law OF
1905 was dismissed in the federal
ourt in Kansas City Kan, by agree
nent between the attorneys on both
ides.
Capt. Curley Wilson, an animal train
r, narrowly escaped death when try ;
ng to train a leopard, at Leavenworth.
[ was only after beating the brute ;
own with his fists that the trainer
vas able to make his escape from the
age. Captain Wilson was getting
eady to put two leopards, two lions =.
nd two pumas through their firsa |.
raining stunts. :,
Peter Holmes, farmer living ten
lilies southeast of Larned, is in a
ritical condition as the result OF a
ite on the knee by a bear. II is 4
bought the animal is mad. q
For the first time in Hutchinsons 9
istory all Of the clerks of election g
cards this spring will be women. A
motor Spirits" the new gas en-
Inc feul, which it is expected will
md added impetus to the motor car
ldustry, will be manufactured by the :
tandard oil Company in an addition =
, the Neodesha refinery, which will =
,st 100000. =