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

east arrived in Kansas.
A Taxpayers league is being organ
lied in Cowley county.
A man named Vaughn has been ar
rested and taken to Pawnee for horse
stealing.
Mr. Goddard, of Texas, mustered up
courage enough to come to Kansas and
marry one of those blaci-eyed Well
ington girls.
Will Weaver, Seneca sailor lad, do
ing service on the bastleship, Olympia,
now in the Orient, will wed Japan
ese lady of noble birth.
Hitherto Topeka has been the 'holier
than thou" section of Kansas. Now
western Kansas puts up claim for
being the holy section.
Ten years of timber-growing in
western Kansas this year make it pos
sible for the western Kansan to bring
a Yule log that is not twig.
1t is announced definitely that with
in six weeks there will be lodge of
the A. p. AS. in Newton, the member
ship of which will reach as high as 200.
Some mlscreant broke open the pres
sure relief valve of the water works
pipe at point four miles west of
Newton, and allowed tens of thous-
ands of gallons of water to escape.
The postmaster general has commits
stoned William b. Sampson, of Salina,
to be postmaster at the new town of
Skaguay, Alaska, and will start for
his new post of duty in few days.
Joe Highlands, near Anthony, a
large cattle dealer, while feeding from
a wagon fell under the wheels and
suffered a compound fracture of the
leg between the ankle and the knee.
Will Christie of Cowley county was
riding horse bareback and chasing
steer when the horse threw him upon
the animals wethers and injured him
so that his life is hanging by Il thread
Hunters will do well TO bear these
facts in mind: Quail and prairie chick
ems may be killed from November /;
ducks from October 1 to January l.
Shooting geese and ducks from sunset
to sunrise prohibited.
Junction City has given up the idea
of city ownership of light plant and
has accepted proposition to furnish
10 to Is all night arc lamps for the
street lamps at Sc each per month.
Private consumers are to pay S. a
month for arc lights and 81 month
each for 16 candle power incandescents
with reduction of one half per light
if five or more is taken. Where lights
are put in houses with meter attach
ed the charge is one cent per amphere
per hour. The city has heretofore
paid $40 month per arc light and the
price of incandescents has been also
decreased by the new rates.
The Santa Fe has mile of double
track at Arkansas City and the COM
pany is now having combination
switches put in at each end so that
trains can switch without stopping.
The switches are so arranged that all
south bound trains will take the west
track and all north bound the east
track. The switch at the south end
throws the north bound tram on the
second track and does not prevent the
south bound train running onto the
main line. The switch at the north
end throws the south bound train on
track No. 1 and permits the train on
the second track to depart without
stopping to switch.
A Barton county hunter bagged
white quail which has been sent to the
State university to be mounted.
The people of Coffeyville who were
opposed to the high school idea are
rejoicing over the fact that they have
scored signal victory over the high
school agitators at Independence.
They were opposed to the building of
county high school and claimed that
the law permitting the issuance of the
tax was illegal Judge Skidmore grant
ed an injunction, holding that the act
was not in conformity to the law.
Little Blanche Watson, aged years,
died at Ft Scott last week from injur-
les received in railroad wreck at that
place five years ago The little thing
had suffered all these years.
Ona Melton says that when he was
sentenced to die he knew that the SEN
tence would not be carried out, because
it meant that the United States would
make war on Spain if it was. That's
the Kansas man all over. He would
willingly die just for the fun of mag
ing the way his country would whale
the offender for killing him.
The little rown of Tescott is figuring
on boom on the strength of the ru-
NOR that the Union Pacific will buy