The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-04-23

Neodeshn set Elm up TO large NUM-
Der of editors April 18th.
Medicine Lodge will follow the lead
of New York and have dog show.
It is now unlawful to catch bass and
the interdict continues until July l.
The Hutchinson Military band has
begin its street concerts to be contin-
ued once week through the entire
summer
The first settlers in Kansas are q
sturdy crowd. The grim reaper has
bent his scyther on many a Kansas
pioneer.
In Kansas the people used to be for
ever assuring each other that this
year" the grasshopper eggs would not
hatch out.
There is girl in Dodge City who
says that a kiss has 500 vibrations a
minute. She evidently doesn't kiss
her brother
Fred Funston in writing to Law
renee friend says that n battle is hell
with its halter loose and it's tail over
the dashboard.
A western Kansas man said the de-
scription of the prize-fght sounded ia
miliar enough except for the omission
of the usual "$5 and COSTS"
Kansas always considers the East
good victim of her jokes. Alfalfa tea
is now being advertised as Kansas
product east of the Mississippi river.
We are not prepared to say who is
the biggest corn raiser is Kansas, but
John b. Rea of Jewell county, who
raised 100000 last year, is no SLOUGH
himself.
An Augusta boy will be graduated
from the High School this year who
has attended school for eleven straight
years and has never been tardy or alb
sent single day.
A very ugly old bachelor in West
ern Kansas town was married recently
and the local paper said it always be-
lieyed "he was invincible to the charms
of the fair SEX"
The large creamery business in Kan
which is attracting so much attention
is largely in the hands of the River
Brethren, a Shaker religious sect in
Dickinson county.
There is running through Kansas at
the present time a special car carrying
physicians who glide from town TO
town, charge big fees and starve the
local physicians to death.
A justice of the peace in Brown
county tried to kiss the bride after per-
forming the marriage ceremony and
got slapped in the face. He must have
been old and wrinkled and without
teeth.
Bob Fitzsimmons telegraphed ex-
Senator Ingalls, denying the published
statement that he had called Mr.. In
gals liar Mr.. Fitzsimmons states
that he had no interview in relation to
any such matter, and that he had new
err had occasion to apply such term
to Mr.. ingalls,.
The Paiges, popular price, and pop
ular company are at the Crawford
Grand, Wichita, this week. They have
| 60. TO-
they have played and propose making
this state their field of labor for some
time to come Their singing and dane
ing specialties are above the average
and worth going TO see.
A large section of the Soldiers
Home land at Leavenworth has been
inundated by the rise in the river and
if the water runs off within the next
week the ground will be unfit for
planting this spring. The river at the
bridge is still falling slowly. The
bridge and all its approaches, bikes,
grades and breal1waters have stood the
freshet without bobble and in no
time has been in the least danger of
damage.
The Union Pacific has engineers in
the territory going over the proposed
line of the Hutchinson Sc Southern
railway to coal fields in the Chickasaw
country. 1t is given out that the I'm
ion Pacific will buy the road and build
through from Medford to Texas at
once.
A Kansas man who spent nearly all
his life on the frontier says that most
of the brave men were killed because
they did not draw their revolvers soon
enough. He says the towards always
whipped their guns out first.
The Dunkards of northeastern and
southern Kanfas met in convention on
April 10, IA ind Is at Sabetha. The
convention comprises one-fourth of the
membership in the state and about 15t
delegates were in attendance.
The imnrovements on the Vitrifef