The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-01-08
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST,".

county essays pure fake.
The young bloods of Kinsley have
organized an athletic club.
Tom Leftwitch does all the lighting
for Cuba from Larned in the Kansas
City papers at five dollars a column.
Every egg case you see in express
cars is not full of eggs to the bottom.
Below the top layer are layers OF quail.
The Santa Fe paid S03O,oOo taxes in
Kansas December 81. That ought to
cause somebody to put his thinking
cap on.
The seventh congressional district
furnishes nearly half Of the Republic
can members of the next Kansas legis-
lature.
The Pratt Republican for Christ
mas editorial published the beautiful
chapter from Luke telling of the birth
of Christ.
Graut Harrington of Hiawatha, a
newspaper man has been appointed
secretary of the state senate committee
on railroads.
A unfeeling judge at Salina assessed
n man 80 for a Christmas eve jag.
Hasn't man right to get gay on
Christmas eve?
During his short receivership of the
Santa Fe it is probable that John Mar
tin managed to get pass until Dec.
81, 1896, at least
The first bills to be introduced in the
legislature this winter will be Bill
Street and Bill Brown, who are run
ming for speaker.
At baby show in Medicine Lodge
the judge gave all the contestants blue
ribbons Medicine Lodge is the place
statesmen come from.
An Atchison man is envied by all
the ether married men in town. He
gave his wife a chatting dish for Christ
mas and she already knows how to run
it,
Some surprise is felt over the state
because Bernard Kelly does not call
on Major Mckinley Bernard is going
to get on in the third and last call for
supper"
There is going to be a big kick
among the PCpulists in western and
southern Kansas against giving the
senatorship to northwestern Kansas
man again.
The reporter of a Kansas newspaper
in searching for new words to fit the
old idea OF dull day found this: "Su-
preme quietude prevailed upon the
streets.
There is only one river in the world
which has less water in it than the Ar
kansas river This is the South Cana
dian. The sand in the Arkansas is
damp. 1t is powder dry in the Cana
dian.
The following item from the Ton
ganoxie, Leavenworth county, Mirror,
is referred to those eastern Kansas ed
itors who have been abusing western
Kansas: There is another frightful
delinquency in the taxes this year,
and the legislature must be called on
to pass either q special or a general
act to compel the payment OF taxes.
Taxes are running behind at the rate
of about $50. 900 per year in this coun-
tv. ard theIe are number of wealthy
men in Leavenworth city whose back
taxes run into four figures If no leg
islative relief is given this winter
Leavenworth county will become bad
Nv involved before another legislature
meets, and county warrants will sell
at discount.
Coolidge would like a creamery, but
a Swimming station will do.
Old General Rice writes piece in
the old Kansas strain to the Fort Scott
Monitor. Like old Kansans he asked
number of dreadful questions and
then ends the communication with
"God forbid"
In Minneapolis recently long resolu-
ton on the death of a member of fra
ternal lodge ended with: Resolved,
That a copy of these resolutions be
given to the press and another copy
sent to the deceased"
The New York Sun says the most
violent Populists in Kansas come from
the west part of the state. There is
nothing in this. The eastern Kansas
Popolists are just as rabid as those
from the west, if not more violent.
Rev. G.. Lowther, presiding elder OF
the Winfield district, in his church pa
per. the Christian Herald, advertises
for "a preacher who can preach like an
angel, raise the dead, call out the stay
at-homes, stop the mouths of grum-
blers, keep up the finances, have re-
vival and live on wind"
The Canton Champion thinks that a
street car line would pay between Can