The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-03-26

|, john y. lngallo TOOK his pen In nanu
and three red necl1ties, to write up the
fight
Sol Miller is very i'll. 1'ac specialist
who has been called in Gees not give
much hope.
An engine and a passenger coach
will soon be put on the Anthony branch
from Arkansas City.
The city council of El Dorado has
made room in the city building for the
public library.
Lewelling, it is said, wiz not give in
his resignation ms senator until after
the special session.
The new election laws for cities of
the second-class in Kansas takes effect
for this springs election
John Temple Graves OF Georgia
loves Kansas. Every year he travels
up here and delivers his lectures
Garden City has slsimming station
scheme. 1t does town as much
good as creamery and doesn't cost as
much.
An innovation at Burlington is
bath room and man who tried it, says
bathing is all right if taken temper
ately.
Miss Hattie Smith of Atchis0n, has
signed two-year contract with An
gustin DAILY, the theater man of New
York.
1t is said that the latest Kansas
cyclone cellars are provided with
chute from the nearest bedroom win
dow.
Dan Muck, farmer near Haven,
Reno county, last Sunday pointed an
old revolver at his wife in fun. The
bullet went through her and killed
her.
An expert accountant went over the
books of the treasurer of Elk county
and found that the county owed its
officer money. The expert also charged
for his work.
Bernard Kelly has been appointed
presiding elder of the independence
district of the Methodist church and
is consequently considered a political
rower again.
A gentlemanly promoter proposed
to the merchants of Norton to pat up
compress. His offer was accepted
but he at once disappeared and hasn't
been seen since.
When the Cheyenne bottoms in Bar
ton county become an inland sea, Ell
linwood and Great Bend will be com
PEELED to support navies to use in case
of actual hostilities
Senator King of Cowley county is be-
ing roasted by his constituents because
lie prevented the passage of mer: ;or-
Gus bill by attending theatre with
the bill in his pocket.
The Grain Dealers association held |
their convention at Topeka on st. Pat
rick's day. This association is COM
posed of buyers ana grain dealers who
have organized for unusual protection
all over the state of Kansas. The or
ganization has about 100 members.
The topics discussed at their meeting
were "How to secure margin on the
grain you ship; undue shortage in
transit and at terminal markets; the
manner of weighing and inspection"
Judge Williams in the federal court
at Wichita, March 18th decided that
the article produced by mixing with
pound of genuine butter a pint of new
milk, preparation known as gilt edge
butter compound, was not good butter,
and fined w. j. Perkins, who manufac-
lures and advertises the preparat ton,
500 and costs. He also imposed SEN
tence of six months Imprisonment up
on Perkins, but the penalties are in
so long as the offender re-
Trains from further use of the mails for
fraudulent purposes.
Some fatal disease has been killing
off many hogs on Paradise creek, in
the northern part of Greeley county.
Peter Roach, farmer living at Bass
hor, between Leavenworth and Kan
sas City, has been placed under arrest
for spreading hog cholera. 1t is re-
ported that Roach drag ged twenty
seven cholera hogs into a ravine in
Stranger Bottoms, instead of burying
them, causing the disease to spread.
Roach paid no attention of the re-
quests of the neighbors to comply with
the law.
The fine rain on the night of March
18th put the finishing touches on the
ground and placed the soil in prime
condition for spring planting and the
farmers are taking advantage of it
and pushing their work along.