The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-11-05

each foot.
The Law and Order league at Baxte
Springs is all agog and fighting among
themselves.
Lyons is threatened with a woman
chicken thief and the authorize
threaten to end 'er.
At Emporia the young people enjo,
nutting parties. They gather pretty
leaves, wild grapes, walnuts and "lit
tie brown hands"
1t is no longer possible in Kansas to
pick out banker on the street by the
cataleptic glaze over his eyes and hi
pale drawn checks.
The average Kansas man wants tc
become rich, so that he can have q
good brass band playing on his front
porch all through the day.
The county commissioners have pur'
chased the old Central hotel at Lyons
and will have it remodeled and used
for the Jail and sheriff's residence.
The drinking of buttermilk has be-
come such fad in Kansas that joint
keepers are keeping it in their chests.
The profit on it's sale is about the same
as on beer
A Winfield man has fine collection
Of Indian relics, among others the hat
of Ponca chief. 1t is cowboy hat
but is painted and ornamented most
Enthusiastically.
The death rate among old soldiers at
Leavenworth is increasing. The latest
death reported was that of Henry
Emotion, who was found dead near a
railroad track.
The parents at El Dorado are form
ing league whose object it will be to
force young men to pay for ther liero-
sene and coal they consume while
counting their daughters.
The Fort Leavenworth football team
has disbanded. 1t was impossible to
get the men out of practice and several
of the team showed symptoms of intel
ligence by having tieir hair trimmed.
The present city council at Hutchin-
son is achieving some notoriety from
recent laws passed. A few days since
an ordinance was adopted requiring
the curfew bell to ring at the report of
a robbery and all citizens ordered to
turn out and chase the thief. And
now comes an ordinance putting a
charge on the Salvation Army every
time they parade the street. Every
time they parade with the big drum
and the fiddle it will cost them spec
flied amount per trip. This applies
only to Main street. The effect of this
ordinance and the future conduct OF
the Army will be watched with inter-
est in Hutchinson.
Seven years ago Henry Ewing, a
colored man now IS years OF age, left
the city of Lawrence and located near
the little town of Loring, 20 miles cas-.
of Lawrence on the Missouri Pacific
road. He rented farm and put all
the money he had in seed potatoes. He
sold his crop the first year for enough
to purchase and pay for 70 acres of
ground. Since that time he has rented
and purchased additional lands, grow
ing better off each year. This summer
he sold 35, 900 bushels of potatoes at an
average of so cents bushel, the total
cost of production being little less
than $4,000, leaving him profit of
about $4,000. He has just returned
from Minnesota, where he purchased
$4,000 bushels of northern grown pota-
toes at 40 cents. These will be ship
ped to his store houses and this winter
be carefully stored. AS many of them
as are needed will be used and sold for
seed next spring, the balance being
put on the place or the market.
There is woman living at Leaven-
worth who has been married five times
in six years. She is now looking
around for the sixth husband for the
seventh year. In all she has had thir-
teen children and still claims tie be of
middle age.
The coroner of Cowley county is
making a thorough investigation of
the case of the unknown man found
dead in straw stack near Arkansas
City, but so far no clue to his identity
or whereabouts of the parties who
murdered him can he found.
Two firms in Great Bend were hood
winked into letting stranger clean
the locks of their safes. A few days
afterward their safes were opened and
all the money in them distracted.
1t has become the fashion with Kan
sas papers to print portraits of local
candidates. The average candidate
will get the paper containing his por-
trait elm off IN Gonna o,iat snOt and