The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-12-24

The Mcpherson college is about ou'
of debt and many students are enroll
ing.
Anabundance of all kinds OF fruits
were raised in the Sunfower state this
year.
Many Kansas papers contain no
tees Of enigrant trains bound fol
Oklahoma.
A show in northern Kansas admits
adults free but charges an admission
for children.
Within a distance ofvtive blocks some
boys in Wellington have killed fifty
rabbits. They raked 81. so out OF the
county treasury for sealps.
Nearly every Kansan will now will
ing confess that when wheat jumped
ninety cents the first time, he expect
cd it to drop back to sixty cents in =
few days.
A Kansas farmer locked up on the
wall and studied the old motto: I'm
| God we Trust" then he said to his
wife: maria, wonder if the India
people have those signs too.
1t would make Andree awfully hot
if he could know that Buffalo Jones
is trying to divide public attention
with him by disappearing in the same
part of the world and at the same
| time.
On account of the malignant type of
scarlet fever that has been prevailing
| in Wichita, the board of health has or
dered that no student of the city
schools who has had the disease since
the opening of the present year, be al
mitted to the buildings, and no pupil
having the fever now should be admit
ted under six weeks.
1t has just been divulged that many
of the society young women of Topeka
serve wine to their guests. Think of
it. Kansas for many years has been
flooded with book showing three
stages of man: First. girl giving her
fellow sip of wine. Second. the fell
low standing at the bar. Third, the
same fellow wallowing in the CATER.
A camp of Gypsies is holding forth
in Cowley county. Gypsies appeared
in Europe first in the fifteenth CEN
fury. They were people driven out of
India by the Mohammedcms, that is
Buddhistic Hindus When the Kansas
farmer sees Gypsy he sees the brother
of the fellows over in India that Are
suffering for the benefit of his wheat
crop.
Ira f. Hodsou. a lawyer of Maneato,
is believed to have been the victim Of
assassins. A week ago the body was
found in the thick brush of the river
bottom, the Lands and feet tied, and
two bullet holes through the head.
The body has been identified rs that
of Hodson by friends in southern Cali
fornia from a photograph OF the mnr-
dered man. He has been missing since
the day before the murder.
Under the provisions of the law ere
ating and establishing the state re-
formatory at Hutchinson the superin-
tendent of the institution is required,
when convict is sentenced to the re-
formatory, to go after HIM and escort
him to the place of his confinement.
This duty has ordinarily devolved
upon sheriffs and some of them stin
insist upon taking their own prisoners
to Hutchinson and charging up the ex-
penses and mileage to the state. These
emoluments belong to the superinten-
dent exclusively and desiring to pro-
tect his rights Superintendent Case
asked Mr.. Boyle for legal opinion in
the matter and the attorney general
held that sheriffs have no rights in
these matters and that the RESPONSE
bility and the fees rest entirely with
| superintendent
1t is claimed that there are more
self-reliant and self-supportinE young
wo,ren IN Kansas than in any state of
the Union, population considered.
Miss Rosa Packard of Pleasanton,
the wheat queen" OF Rush county,
raised 1000 bushels of wheat his year.
She teaches a county school in the
winter.
W. II. Haskell of Gaylord, the cattle
feeder of Smith county, is feeding
about 400 head of export cattle this
winter. Many of them at this time
will weigh 1000 pounds
The Santa Fe railway company has
new compressed air paint machine
The machine shoots the paint onto the
roof Of depot.
An Atchison baby has been admitted
to practice before the supreme court of
Kansas. Kansas is becoming entirely
too brilliant She will spontaneously
combust