The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-05-21

The grass on the range is excellent
this year and the stock is ip.the best
of condition.
If you owe tax on your dog, it is
no sin against the law to steal it from
YOU. So says the supreme court.
The new census of Concordia, just
completed, gives that city popula'
ton of 1850 against 2,740 in 1896.
1t is plain that Topeka prefers drug
store whisky. 1t is certain that less OF
it is drank. One swig of it is drunk.
Garden City has not refused,to pay
The bills for the appellate court rooms
there and the court will not b@temov-
ed.
The rain was so heavy in Western
Kansas that large crevasse is re-
ported in the levee along the Arkan-
sas.
The Topeka Elks who presented the
opera "Billee Taylor have been pleas
ed and criminal proceedings will be
dropped.
Ralph Easley, who was great joke
in Kansas, has been elected secretary
of the Chicago Civic Federation for the
third time.
While the supreme court may knock
out the bribery investigation commit
tee, enough testimony has been secur-
ed to make report, and trouble is
ahead for lot of patriots who dallied
with the 'lopg green"
John Shredder of Goddard, probably
the most persistent violator of the pro-
hibitory law in Kansas, died May TO-
Tiger Bill" Campbell, who, while as.
sstant attorney general, was on
Shroeder's trail for months, says
Shredder has cost Sedgwick county in
court cases over $4,000. He was one
of the oldest settlers in the county and
was once wealthy, but lost his money
in liquor litigation.
A favorite place for osculatory ex-
PLOTS with the Topeka bellies and
beaux is on top of the dome of the
state house. On this airy summit, ESQ
feet above the earth, it is the delight
of the amorous swain to take his sweet
heart and far away from the madding
crowds ignoble strife, kiss her to his
hearts content, with none to modest or
make HIM afraid. The ribald small
boy and the derisive young man, al
though armed with powerful field
glasses, are as if they were not.
A prominent Kansas newspaper says:
In Kansas a lawyer who has been
successful county attorney gathers in
fat fees many years afterward by GER
tifying to the state board of pardons
that murderers and thieves sent to the
penitentiary are innocent What is
needed in Kansas is governor who
will haye the courage to get along
without board of pardons and as
sumo the responsibility of the pardon
ing power which the constitution
places in him With only his own
| Judgment and his own conscience to
guide him governor would be slow to
pardon notorious criminals.
The revenue collector at Beloit will
sell the moonshine whisky captured in
Mitchell county in the home of the
Simmons, about ii miles south of Be
lott on March 18th. The moonshine
stuff consists of IA packages or 305 gal
Ions. 1t was manufactured in Wyom
ing and hauled by the Simmons broth
ers to their home in Mitchell county,
the United States officers getting on
the track of the whisky, which they
followed, and when found was secreted
in Simmons home. The trial of the Sim
mons brothers will come up in the
United States court at Denver some
time this month The sale of this
moonshine goods will be as good as
circus day for Beloit and quito large
number of bidders are expected to be
present.
For $40 per month the city marshal
at Garden City guards the city, patrols
all the streets, lights the lamps catches
unlicensed dogs, keeps the sidewalks
in repair, cleans the street crossings,
herds the tramps and occasionally
turns the switch for the railroad sta
ton agent
Simon Gingish near Garden City last
week found in an eighty-fool dry well
two missing calves. Neither calf was
hurt and he is spending his evenings
now trying to figure out why those
calves both selected the same we'll
The west is honeycombed with fakes.
Every Kansas has said at least once in
his life that everybody "howled like
Comanche Indian" Comanche Indians
are rather mild-voiced and can not yell