The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-04-09


Swimming station.
St John cows drew $500 from the
creamery in February.
Wichita ice company has converted
its ground into a garden spot.
Senator Baker is interest in gold
prospect in Northwest Colorado.
Congressman-elect w. d. Vincent has
appointed his daughter as his clerk.
Judge Benson and Judge Smart have
formed n law partnership at Ottawa.
There are just about half as many
women registered in Atchison as there
are men.
A Strong City man writes back from
Port Arthur for his rife so he can kill
mosquitoes.
A. b. Campbell, the Kansas man who
went insane in California, is now liv-
ing in Indiana.
Railroad Commissioner billiard and
Glen Fairchild are thinking of estab.
| fishing Ia " office at Galena.
A lot of sugar beet seed has been re.
ceived at Ellinwood, and extensive ex-
periments will be made this season.
In Wellington in 1895, 1,4s7 people
registered; this year 1880; decrease
of 200 registered voters in two years.
An Atchison turkey which had been
imprisoned for four weeks under tub
without food or drink was found still
alive.
Last Sunday an old man, with long
white locks walked up to the altar rail
in Topeka church and said II am
Jesus Christ"
Inman sent q car load of eggs to
Massachusetts, last week. The hos
tility between the east and the west
is growing less.
Advance men for shows have a new
scheme to make themselves solid with
the newspaper boys by claiming to
personally know Bill White.
Wild geese which have been shot
near Atchison have been discovered to
have siuged wings. 1t is thought they
came in contact with the electric mo.
tor on the airship.
Mrs. John Myers of Newton knocked
patent gasoline lamp to the floor the
other evening and was very seriously
burned. Her husband in trying TO
save her from the flames was also very
badly burned.
The seventh annual meeting of the
Northwestern Kansas Teachers asso-
citation will be held at Horton April
Is, 1G and L. Railroad rates of one
and third fare on the certificate plan
have been secured.
Kansas is getting the favor of re-
action in the eastern papers. Many
nice things are being written of the
state just at present. During the last
six months Kansas has received more
advertisement of one sort or another
than at any like period in her his
tory
The railway committee, appointed to
confer with similar committees from
Kansas and Texas, will meet the Kan
sans at Oklahoma City at o'clock on
April s. They will go over the Santa
Fe railway to Texas, the overland trip
having been abandoned. They may
return overland.
The Winfield Assembly this year
will begin June 18th and continue to
June oath inclusive. Several contracts
with frst-class attractions have already
been closed and negotiations are pend
ing for Others MaXimilian Dick. the
violinist who appeared with Miss Yaw
in her last engagement, and Jahu De-
witt Miller, who appeared before the
lecture course at Winfield few weeks
ago, have been secured as attractions
by the Assembly this year.
A beautiful young lady at Norton
Vile, while standing in the postoffice
lobby the other day, suddenly grasped
her skirts at the knee and turned pale.
All the men went away kindly and the
girl loosened her grasp and dead rat
fell to the floor.
A colony is being organized in Rus
soil county to go to Central America.
An advance agent sent down there
some months ago is back with glowing
accounts of that country, aud large
number have already agreed to join
the colony.
Geo. NJ. Sargent, general freight
agent of the Prescott, Phoenix & Ari-
iona railroad, started as check clerk
in Atchison. That town has given to
the country more high-up railroad
men than any other railroad town in
the west.