The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-03-12
KANsAs ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The Touring mill will be rebuilt at
Garden City.
The late wet spell has brought new
word to Kansas. A paper speaks OF the
streets again being mudless.
Some fatal disease has been killing
off many hogs on Paradise creek, In
the northern part of Russell county.
A Pratt boy found cylinder with
fuse attached. He lit the fuse to see
what would happen and the doctor
cannot yet tell whether lie Will re-
cover.
Henry Shupe, "The Rattlesnake
King of the Rockies" is dead at Atch-
.son of Pneumonia. He was river
hermit and captured and charmed
snakes.
1t is the introduction of fool bills
that hurts Kansas. They never pass.
The legislature should pass law maxi
ing it misdemeanor to introduce
fool bill.
The next state oratorical contest
will be held at Lawrence where the
police are used to such things and
won't interfere with the inter-collegi-
ate scraps.
E. w. Jcrdhn, aged g., farmer, and
for twenty-five years resident OF Keno
county, died on Feb. 25th of gangrene
of the bowels, caused from injuries re-
ceived while hunting few days ago
He was wealthy and highly respected.
Do Kansas people enjoy reading the
travels of editors? Several editors are
now RECALLING their readers with &C
counts of trips. Do the readers care
for them? If they do not the editors
wouldn't take the trouble to write
them.
The game markets are said to be al
most glutted with wild ducks, NAL
lards, teal and pintails. Old hunters
and men who handle game say they
never Saw such fight of ducks in
February, and they are fat, plump and
pretty.
The merchants and business men at
Council Grove have adopted a novel
plan to keep peddlers and travelling
concerns out of that town. Every bus
mess house in the city must take out a
city license and pay into the treasury
500. When such houses have been
duly assessed and have paid taxes the
$500 is refunded by the city. This
keeps out the travelling stores.
Switch engine PA which has been in
the Newton yards nearly tn years, is
said by railroad men to be an engine
with a hoodoo hanging over it. 1t has
been given extensive repairs at Topeka
and has been taken to the Wichita
wards During the short time it was
in Newton four switchmen met death
through it. The boys are naturally
not backward in acknowledging that
they sre glad the other fellow has it,
as a hoodoo engine is always avoided.
The reformatory at Hutchinson now
contains 14S inmates and a number
more have been sentenced that haYe
not yet arrived. The superintendent
and assistant superintendent spent
several days in Topeka endeavoring to
get the legislature to make an appro-
priation for this institution, as it now
has more inmates than can be comfort
ABLY cared for About the latest indi-
cation are that the institution will be
given sufficient appropriation for
maintaining their present number, but
no appropriation for charging to ac-
commodate others that may be senten-
ced.
A Kansas child who had spent much
time on farm visited Kansas City re-
Gently and saw his first chain well. He
looked at it for a. while and said:
"What is this? A corn-sheller?"
The Atchison Ministerial union re-
Gently declared against base ball Sum
day mornings on the ground that it
kept the boys away from Sunday school
and young men away from church.
"A city league of base ball clubs has
been organized to play at Forest park
Sunday mornings, but the project has
now been given up.
An Emporia bride gives her girl
friends the tip that a young man who
insists on putting on his sweetheart's
overshoes before marriage won't wipe
the dishes afterward.
While dressing in his room at New
ton the other night Professor Dyche
heard pistol shot. A second later
some plaster and bullet struck him
in the neck. A travelling man in the
room above had dropped his revolver,
discharging it. The North Pole had
narrow escape from remaining forever
undiscovered - tE t-tt A