The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-09-24

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WICHITA FISH AND GAME CLUB.
Wier City has passed curfew ordi-
nance.
The Anthony jail is empty for the
first time in many moons.
The electric belt falSir worked Otta-
wa where there are two daily newspa-
pers.
Two colored boys at S. John have
been found guilty of violating the
game law, and SIS.
The Garden City fire department is
electng queen. A fire department
queen ought to have no trouble about
hose.
Danuel Anthony is now rs years Of
age, and he says he can not recall the
day when he did not do manuel labor.
He began to work as soon as he could
walk.
Above all, the Kansas farmer loves
his children. Recently a farmer was
taking bicycle home to his daughter.
/ The wagon which he drove was worth
$50; the bicycle sos.
The Santa Fe House, one of the first
buildings put up in NiclSerson, and at
one time the most popular hosiery in
the city, is being torn down this week
and moved into the country.
Last year was considered bad crop
year in Dickinson county, still the to-
| tai farm products amounted to s., 073,-
0O3. 33, or more than 500 per capita
for each mar, woman and child in the
county.
A man playing the Kentucky colonel
visited Newton for week or two He
had the broad accent in speech and the
flaming red breath characteristic of
such, and he mixed with sporting men,
but took his liquor straight, setting
them up to the boys at frequent inter-
walls He was becoming popular when
he left the town-aftcr furnishing the
county attorney with the names of 400
drinkers and jointists. Hence the wall
ing in Newton's 400.
Wheat buyers along the line of the
Union Pacific have experienced con-
siderable difficulty in getting cars dur
ing the past week. At the smaller sta
tions. where there is no competition,
the grain men pay the conductors q
dollar each for extra cars. When u
train of empty cars is sent out into the
wheat belt, part of them are billed to
the grain men and the distribution of
the remainder is left to the CONDUCTOR,
who generally places them where it
pays HIM best.
Louis Lindsay Dyche, professor of
zoology in the University of Kansas,
returned from a three months vaca-
tian. lie spent these three monts at
the Konkins seaside labratory, on
Monterey bay, in California. The pro-
fessor says he gave mammals rest
this time and devoted himself to the
lower forms of animal life, which
abound in the warm waters of the Pa
cifc. lie has secured over a ton of
specimens for the university museum
and for use in the labratory, a I'd has
gathered much valuable data for use
in the class room.
The general advance of prices has
raised the board in the normal clubs at
Emporia from S1.4O to 81. ~ per week.
Now look for kick.
The Nottingham Review of Noting
ham, England, contains long editor
ial article on the wonderful wheat crop
of Kansas. 1t says: The Kansas
farmer is in rare luck as all the world
IS compelled to pay him tribute. Kan
sas is the greatest wheat and cattle re-
zion in America and the farmers there
are coming money on both wheat and
cattle"
In the Santa Re wreck man kicked
car window open and crawlcd out
As he rose to a standing position fell
low reached for his diamond. The
Emporia man knocked the thief down
and passed on.
The telephone line at Junction City
will be extended to Salina within {
month. 1t will then be extended t.
, Bennington, Minneapolis and NORTH
, into Nebraska, and toll line soutl
through Lindsborg, Mcpherson on t.
r Hutchinson, connecting with the linz
already there.
t Kansas has gained 10000 in popula
ton the past year and has also gained
, SIS, 900, 900 in assessed valuation.
t 1t is said that last year baled ha!
t sold at 81 bale at Baxter. An occa
D sional bale had a bottle of whisky
The officers, however, caught on.
> This year the old fellow had 70 ha!
t but plenty of watermelOns Each mel
? on had a good sized plug-to prove /