The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-04-02

JOG hicndruS WHO ID III washing 'oi
wants to be federal Judge.
Leavenworth and Topeka are both
after the State soldiers reunion.
There are no daily Democratic papers
Atchison, Leavenworth or Topeka.
Traffic over the Anthony branch is
to be resumed. So much for kick.
10 Bristow as fourth assistant post
master general gets four thousand a
year.
The measles is having run at Ell
Dorado and decreasing school attend
ance some.
The building in which the first dis
trict court was held in Kingman has
just been fitted up to use as slSim'
ming station.
The entire debt of the Southwestern
college at Winfield is to be paid as
result of work at the conference recent
ly held there.
Those who know say that Kansas
in it's requests for federal appointments
is, in point of numbers, among the real
states of the Union.
A crank passed though Topeka the
other day in wagon on which was
printed: "1'he strange young man 70
turning from Jerusalem"
On the evening of March 20 General
Condor spoke at Wellington. His es-
cort to the hall was made up of yeter-
ans of the Blue and the Gray.
A western Kansas paper remarks
that one reason the prize-tight is better
than the street fight is the almost GER.
tain exemption uf the bystander
The following will perhaps be some
consolation to the Hutchinson man
whose slumbers are continually dis
turbed by his wife's snoring 1t has
long been discovered that snoring is
positive evidence that those doing it
are generous, charitab BILE, kind and pos
sess all the nobler impulses. A person
who breathes easy and quietly while
asleep is tricky, treacherous and has
a shrivelled soul.
During the recent cold snap the prai-
ries of northwestern Kansas were COW
cred with drifts of snow, which fell
on the 21st and 22d. The roads in
many places were blocked. The snow
was accompanied by heavy wind that
drifted it badly. Railroad cuts were
filed with immense drifts and trains
delayed to some extent. This snow
will prove of great value to farmers
and wheat raisers.
No damage has as yet been done by
high water at Atchison, but much APP
prehension is felt by residents of the
Missouri river bottoms over the reports
from the north. They fear a repeti-
ton of the flood of 1881, when the en-
tire bottom lands were inundated. re-
sulting in great loss of property.
The Missouri Pacific and Burlington
and Missouri River roads are preparing
for high water and large forces of men
are at work quarrying rock to be used
to protect the tracks from the encroach-
ments of the river.
There is general movement on foot
among the farmers of Norton county
to construct dams over the draws for
purpose of irrigation. Meetings are
being held in different parts of the
county, and organizations are being
formed who will cooperate with other
societies for the advancement of the
work of draining the draws and build
ing reservoirs. The first of these meet
ings was held at Nocatur. 1t was
largely attended by the farmers of that
vicinity. The following agreement
was presented and largely signed by
all those present: ave, the under
signed do hereby agree to construct or
assist in constructing reservoirs for the
purpose of holding water, by building
dams across draws or otherwise, on
our Respective farms the ensuing year"
A st. Louis man offered to put in an
electric light system at Wellington for
franchise of twenty years and con-
tract to light the streets for five years.
The city council knocked out the fran
chise.
D. S. Welsh has bought and shipped
out of Newton in the last two years
over 900 head of horses. This means
that he has paid out to the farmers of
Harvey county nearly $4,000. At any
rate it is safe to say that he has paid
out to the farmers an average of $780,
600 year for horses.
The Kansas Musical Jubilee will be
held at Hutchinson, May IS, 10, 20 and
21. splendid program has been ar
ranged and no lover of music can af-
ford to miss it.
The best showing that has been