The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-04-16

to establish public library.
The big woman vote in Kansas this
spring was In the big cities and not in
the towns.
There are sixteen more men than
women in Preston, but the population
is increasing.
A Newton rnilliner at her spring
opening served punch. More men than
women attended.
The successful candidate for mayor
of Abilene had one majority and there
will be recount.
The hail last week was large enough
near Guelph, Sumner county, to knock
out window lights.
Manhattan. the circus man, was shot
at Wichita April Sd from the effects OF
which he died ON the 5th.
The Santa Fc will spend $50, 900 on
the new depot and other improvements
az l'ouBc wy ehiS ouihhiCi'
Wheeler, the new state forestry COM
missioner, held the same place under
Lewelling. 1t pays 5000 year.
Ora Melton, the Lawrence boy who
was captured near Cuba on the Com
petitor, is still in Spanish dungeon.
The Topeka Joints arc driving the
drug stores out of business. 1t is
easy to guess what kind of business.
tJohn Wolf of Washington is poor and
glad of it. He makes living that
way. lie is living skeleton in circus.
1t only took two hours after a Gi-
vorce petition was filed in Winfield
court to get the decree and alimony.
According to the Chanute Tribune
the office fever can give the mountains
fever big start and run a man quick
err.
Wichita is to have fair and fiesta
next fall. We suppose this fiesta
business is the old thing with new
name
Kansas has overworked the word
plug" 1t means hat, stopper, a
railroad train, an old horse, blow, a
mutilated coin.
There is little talk about organic
ng Kansas baseball league. 1t will
not be organized. With the exception
of gold mines the easiest way to drop
money is in a state baseball league
The people in the vicinity of lola are
in bad fix. The roar of the Palmer
gas well in that town can be heard for
ten miles. If cyclone should APP
proach it would drown out the roar of
the wind and the people would be
without warning.
A Eureka man has issued note to
his neighbors explaining why he has
been so unsociable and unneighborly.
He says he was so because he wanted
to conceal his real condition. He is in
sane and has been so adjudged, on the
evidence of the note.
The new text book law fixes the fol-
lowing maximum prices: Spelling
book 10 cents, first reader 10 cents.
second reader II cents, third reader %
cents, fourth reader 80 cents, fifth read
er 40 cents, mental arithmetic, 20 cts,
intermediate arithmetic % cents, COM
plete arithmetic 35 cents, elementary
geography 30 cents, complete geog-
raphy rs cents, elementary English
grammar 20, complete grammar 80
cents, physiology and hygiene so cents,
history of the United States 80 cents,
civil government 40 cents, elements of
natural philosophy so cents, elmentary
algebra so cents, physical geography
so cents, bookkeeping 40 cents, writ
ing books cents. 1t is estimated that
it will cost every pupil $l.e5 to equip
himself with new books. He will re-
ceive half price for his old ones, so that
it will mean cash outlay of about e. Il
cents.
At a party in Topeka doughnut
was suspended by a string FROM the
ceiling and each guest had to eat one
so suspended with hands behind his
back. 1t is said to be hard thing to
do.
An Atchison man walking out on a
common the other night with absolute
ly nothing but the sky above him was
hit on the head by a potato half-pealed.
1t came right down straight and was
probably dropped by the cook on the
airship.
h f.. b. Dawes, ex,attorney general OF
the state, has made arrangements to
move his family to Lawrence and make
it his future home. lie does this In or.
der to give his children the advantage
OF the schools to be found in Lawrence.
Fate Russell, the eolored man who
fell under Union Pacific train at Per-
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