The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-03-26

The swell thing at Newton musl'
Gale is guitar duet.
At Emporia people who do not pur
chase tickets are not allowed to sit in
the Santa Fe waiting room.
ED Jaquins of Winfield is trying to
work up fair this fall! at Caldwell.
He owns the fair grounds there.
Squire w. Il. Cox of Wellington wore
shamrock ON the 18th. which was st
Patrck's as well as Cox's birthday.
Miss Levara Stotler, who used t.
1--we in Wellington, has come into ia
vorable prominence in Missouri as /;
soprano
Charles johnson a blooded stool
farmer of sumner county. has been of
4 fered SOS head for all his calves
weaving time
A deaf and dumb Hutchinson begga.
y.her1 hand-cuffed by the police yell.
ed: Ring off on this Do you wait to
saw my wrists Off"
The Kansas City poker sharp who
started ont to clean up Kansas towns
is walking back from Ottawa. Kansas
is not So slow after all.
Newton conductor says that chill
dren travelling along are much cas- er
to handle and make fewer mistakes
than many grown people.
Vernon Kellogg, formerly of Kansas
now OF the Lelaad Stanford university.
will be given tour to Europe next
summer by that institution.
No officials in Kansas holding feder-
al positions will be removed until their
terms expire. This comes straight
from Washington and is correct.
George Thomas, formerly of Ollaho-
ma, is on trial at Garnett, Kansas,
Kansas, charged with killing young
, woman on whom abhortion y71a at
tempted.
Rev. and Mrs. Holmes of Caldwell,
were last week presented with white
plush hat-racls ornamented with six
buffalo horns. 1t was made by Con-
ductor Loosely.
Taylor Sadler of Sumner county had
5000 wrapped up in a piece Of paper
while in Wichita recently lie lost
this, went back an hour later and
found it intact
A st. Louis man offered to put in an
electric light system at Wellington for
franchise of twenty years and a con.
tract to light the streets for five years.
The city council knocked out the fran
chise.
One of the Santa Fe brakeman run
ming out of Newton had dream the
other night in which he saw Corbett
carried from the ring unconscious.
This 20 ovcrjoyed him that he yelled
SO loud that everybody else in the
block was awakened He was guyed
most numerically for this, but is get.
ting it back on the boys since the fight
came out just the way ne advised them
to bet.
The people of Newton always watch
the through trains for noted people.
The other day the finest dressed wom-
an who ever passed through stepped
off the Pullman and walked about on
the platform. A reporter there chron-
icles that she was the ugliest woman
who ever went through without dis
arranging the right-of-way with her
face.
The $4,000 appropriation by The last
legislature to furnish water supply
for the Soldiers Orphans home at
Atchison, will be expended in digging
a well on the island, near the river,
aud in putting in pumping station
and pipes to deliver the water to the
water tower of the institution. 5000 |
feet from the pumping station. Super
intendent Faulkner says that with
care the money will accomplish the
object desired.
1t is fact heard on every hand that
the wheat prospects SO far in Thomas
county are the best for many years,
and that the acreage is fully as large
as in former years. The county isagain
filing up with stock, and many of the
fasmcrs are getting into it again.
The electric light plant at Holton
blew up on the night of March the 16,
and the manager, l.. j. Bonebrake,
was seriously injured. The cylinder
and all the plugs blew out of the boiler
and the damage to the machinery will
cause weeks shut down
Amos Frazier, charged with shooting
Charles Dickerson, rival hotel keeper
at Sedgwicll. has been bound over &c
the district court in 81, 900 bonds by
Judge Hedge of Newton.
Ethel Anderson, aged years, living