The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-01-15

county. That's funny.
Abilene draws the line at hypnotic
shows and "Uncle Tom"
The vertical penmanship system has
marched into Burlington.
A Downs newspaper man has back
slid and gone to preaching.
There was a sunrise prayer meeting
at Liberal and the other southwest
towns are jealous.
The "water cure" has been introduce
ed at Florence. Water has long been
used there tor washing.
Since Columbus Born returned there
has been a revival and sixty CONVEX
sions at Oberlin.
The Newton Republican has put in a
new press and that is all there is to
the report that the editor would be
married.
| Dodge City expects new Santa Fe
depot next spring. Hutchinson has
been getting one next spring for ff-
teen years.
Just as the legislature is to meet the
report gets out that the price of IA
small bot" is to be advanced in To-
peka.
Frank Doster recently said: 81 Go
not know what the legislature will do.
There is a whole lot of queer talk
conservatism"
Old Dick Wake of Topeka has receiy-
ed prize from an English paper which
offered ten guineas for the best article
on the direct vote.
George Martin has discovered that
Mark Hanna had an elder brother who
at an early age entered livery stable
and drank himself to death.
If Frank Doster were not on the SUI
preme bench he would be in the race
for the United States Senate. Doster
would not be in the Senate two months
before he would be national figure.
A Harper recently n groom came in
and tried to keep his marriage notice
out of the Sentinel. The editor took
out in the alley, threw him and sit on
him while the boys ran off the paper.
The western district fellows say they
will legislate Newt Ury of Fort Scott
out of his office. TRY says they are
bluffing. Try is the man who intends
to put western Kansas into four big
counties.
On Christmas day the Arkansas City
football eleven beat the FL Reno club,
making them the champions of Kansas
and Oklahoma The Fort Reno club
never been beaten before, although it
plays almost continually.
The Liberal News reports man In
its town who doesn't take a newspaper.
He recently sent so cents in answer to
an advertisement show to maks pants
last" He received the reply: make
your coat and vest first"
When a Ness county farmer runs
out of meat, he steps to his door just
before he goes to bed and lets go both
barrels of his shotgun. The next morn
ing he picks up enough jack rabbits to
keep the pot boiling for week.
There are seven separate and distinct
salt companies in Hutchinson, owning
fourteen salt "plants." The compan-
les are: The Hutchinson Salt Company
the Kansas Salt company; the Hutch
inson Packing company; the Barton
Salt company; the Union Ice and Salt
company; the Star Salt company; the
Crescent Salt company. These plants
have n combined capacity of about
1 $50, 900 barrels of salt per annum.
They are not worked to their full ca
pacity as the freight rates stop the
market east of the Missouri river, and
the Rocky mountains bound it on the
west The total amount of salt made
during the past year was not far from
100000 barrels. .....
A Cheney man was recently asked if
he had ever heard a photograph. He
said he had not and somebody gave
him a galvanic battery and told him
to put both the handles in his ears
He did so and he can hear the buzzing
yet
A law suit has been commenced in
Cowley county over an election bet
between the bet that Kentucky and
California would go Republican. All
wager experts say that the man who
bet that Kentucky and California
would go Republican, won.
General Buckner sent the voters of
dudley township, Haskell county, a
demijohn of whisky and fifty dollars
Christmas Day. Dudley township was
the only place in the United States
where Palmer and Buckner received a
m n 5or;ft, If tho uOtac cast