The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-01-29


Three of the passes sent by the rail
roads to legislators have been returned.
None was sent to Governor Leedy. He
pays his fare.
An Abilene Judge has made rule
that only parties and witnesses con-
cerned may hear the tales of woe told
in divorce trials.
One Emporia lawyer has issued an
edict chat if Will White ever publishes
his name he will go up 20 the office
and slap Wills face.
Two boys at Fort Scott have been
arrested for stealing stereotype metal
from printing Office in order to make
bullets for this Cuban insurgents.
Major Price, the Cuban lecturer, in
order to induce sleep took an overdose
of choral at Kansas City the other
night and came very near Tying.
A porter at Winfield in a hotel show
ed blind man and his wife to room
and carefully ligh ted the gas and left
them. The gas burned all night
The Topeka newspapers refused to
make any mention on the inaugural
ball. They insist that some Of the peo-
pie who attended were not proper.
Tannahill, the place from which
King of Cowley halls, is just beside
| Geuda Springs. We knew these waters
would accomplish wonders if given a
chance.
The Kansas City Stock yards have
spread CONSERVATION among the legis-
lators by declaring that the legislature
may do its worst-no Doodle will be
Forthcoming.
A Solomon man has given up good,
steady job as railroad section fore
man and adopted the uncertain avoca-
ton as an evangelist. He says the
Lord called" him.
The Hutchinson brigands who car
ried off Stella Mott tried to run away
with girl named Mary Wire the other
night. Hutchinson should take steps
to stop this wholesale competition OF
Italy.
The Mcpherson clerk who has two
girls and wants to go home from
church with both of them realizes how
member of the legislature feels as he
looks at his anti-railroad bill and his
annual pass.
A Butler county farmer and stock
raiser says he has spent enough money
for cigars to buy the best farm in the
county. He farther says he does not
regret it because he had had more
pleasure out of it than the best farm in
the county was worth.
A Santa Fe clerk who desires to be
unknown. contributes the following to
prominent newspaper: "Widows are
popular because they have none of the
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startled fawp and the kitten business
is greatly overdone by girls. Widows
have lots of common sense that men
admire If mouse appears in front
of a widow she grabs a poker and
smashes it, while girl will scream,
and possibly faint, although she is no
more afraid of mouse than a widow"
good story is told on Pop MEM
Der of the legislature. He wanted to
be in the swim so he engaged room
at the National hotel. The first night
he was there he wrote to a friend at
home and said that Topeka was a
great place, and that he was having
gay time. He said that he was treat
ed mighty nice" at his hotel, that po-
lite little boys waited on him bringing
him everything that his heart could
wish, and that his room had fine fur
niture, pretty brussels carpet and was
not lighted with either lamps or can
dies, but with a ''red hot hair pin
in bottle"
There are ten nice girls to every
boy in Hiawatha and there are about
thousand nice girls to every nice boy.
In fact, we know of no nice boys. Sure
enough boys are tough and nasty.
Good boys are sissies.
There is a man named Williams ir
the legislature who was elected as a
Republican but is serving with the
Populists. He was nominated on
silver platform before the st. Louis
convention. He refused to change his
belief and Mcpherson county elected
him.
Reports from many agents for the
sale of Bryan's book in Kansas indi-
cate that the sale will be very small.
Kansas is state of newspaper readers
more than of book-readers.
A Brown county jay bought some
candy and some strychnine and put
them in the same pocket, the candy
loose. The strychnine paper broke
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