The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-02-12

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Fort Scott man is having his stom-
ach investigated by the X rays. The
stomach troubles him and he wants to
find out where the flaw is.
At Winfield the mayor has appoint
ed policeman to keep order at the sal
walton army meetings, the army pay
ing the salary of the officer.
Salina woman wants the Ameri-
cans to organize a society in which
each member will pledge himself to
buy only American made goods.
During the last twenty-five years
the city of Topeka has paid out over
thirteen thousand dollars in insurance
premiums on the city school buildings.
Topeka has taken another start in
It's boom for big convention hail.
The man who first started this boom
died in 1868, and his son is now one of
the boomers.
Vick's Annual is now being distribu-
ted. In an early day the prettiest
thing that reached Kansas was the an
nual and the children used to fight for
possession.
While the recent cold snap has been
raging in Kansas the railroads IN the
state have been entirely FREQ from
buns. Buns will not face cold wealth
er from any truck.
The fact that cows are increasing in
western Kansas aud that millions of
tons of ice are being put up now sug-
gests that ice cream will be dirt cheap
out there next summer.
A banker at Topeka has prepared at
| the request of eastern parties, state
ment of the public Indebtedness of
Kansas, meaning the Indebtedness of
the state, counties, cities, townships
and school districts. The statement
shows an aggregate Indebtedness on
June 3d. 1896, of 1914, $50, 039 The tax
able property of Kansas as fixed by the
state board of equalization for the year
ending June 30, 1896, is $521, 216,9 1913.
Kansas property is assessed at from 25
to 80 per cent of its real value. Accept
ing the assessment of 1896 as true
value, the public Indebtedness of Kan
sas is 10 TO per cent of its taxable
property. On basis of the assessment
being q of its true value, the per cent
of the public Indebtedness will equal
357 per cent of true value.
The Dunkards, or Thinkers, of whom
| the governor of Kansas is represen-
tive, says the Kansas City Star, belong
to sect founded in 17OS at Schwarz-
enau, Germany by Alexander Mack
and seven others who rejected the doc
trines of baptism. The name is
nickname, derived from the German
Tunker-to dip; members of the sect
styling themselves brethren. Persecu-
| ton drove the founders to Holland,
and between 1719 and 1929 they all
emigrated thence to America. They
are found in Pennsylvania, Maryland
Virginia, Ohio and Indiana, and it is
apparent that some have found their
way further West, but their numbers
all told are not great. Their church
discipline is nearly the same as that of
other Baptists, except that every
brother is allowed to exhort. Men
found apt to teach are ordained minis
ters, and the eldest teachers bishops.
The Dunkards affect great plainness of
speech and dress, like the Quakers.
Neither take oaths, fight nor go to law,
and formerly they took no interest
They celebrate the taking of the sacra-
ment with love feasts, washing of feet,
the kiss of charity and the right hand
of fellowship, anoint the sick with oil
for recovery, and practice complete i'm
mersion, with laying on hands and
prayer even when the person baptised
is in the water.
The people of Haskell county are
considering plan to reduce the num-
Der of townships in the county.
Another Kansas girl is setting the
East wild with her marvellous voice.
Her name is Miss Boyd. A Kansas
newspaper writer says she is the same
Kittie Boyd who lived up the creek
near where Jake Potter now farms and
who achieved that splendid voice by
filing the prairie dog valley with the
music of that marvellous opera written
by Sig. Bovini, entitled "Cosboss, Coo
boss"
A story is told on Kansas girl that
her mother recently put a jug of boil
ing Cwater at the foot of the girls bed
to keep her feet warm, and that in the
night the girls feet got so cold they
froze the water solid, and bursted the
jug.
An Emporia man six feet in height,
recently stumbled into room occu-
pied by an engaged couple. 1t was an