The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-12-10

is the local sport who shook hands
with Fitzsimmons while the latter was
in Topeka.
1t is not cold yet, although many
Kansas people are grumbling. Up II
Dakota ie is so cold that it freczes The
clouds stiff.
The destruction of rabbits in Sum
ner county has been very great. The
county has paid $270 out in bountie'
at three cents n scalp.
The water famine at Fort Scot IS 81
serious that the water works are li:rely
to forfeit their franchise by being una
bio to get enough with which to sup
ply the city.
A new shooting gallery at yelling
ton affords the sports a chance to shoot
at abbit which is pursued by dog.
The figures are attached to reyolv'
ing platform.
The Santa Fe Railway company on
December /, changed the name of its
Southern division to Oklahoma divis-
ion. 1t will mbrace the main line
from Newton to Purcell, the Pandan-
die branch from Wellington to Pan
handle, the Florence branch from
Florence to Englewood and the Au-
gusta branch from Augusta to Null
vane, comprising over 900 miles Of
track.
Habeas corpus proceedings were ar
gued at Leavenworth before Judge
Hawn to secure the release from the
penitentiary of Albert Smith of Atch-
ison. He was sent in for five years
for urSlary in the second degree for
breaking into box car and one year
for larceny, in April, 1897, and it is
claimed that the state supreme court
rendered decision recently declaring
unconstitutional the law making the
breaking into car felony.
The youngest wedding on record in
Reno county is that of Emmett H.
Wall and Minnie b. Shepherd, two pco-
pie of Hutchinson, who cut short their
school days and surprised their school
mates by their marriage December /.
Young Wall will not be ola enough to
vote for four years, being only II, and
the bride has not yet celebrated her
10th birthday, and is in appearance
mere child. The consent of the par
ents on both sides was given to the
marriage.
The finest lot of sheep that has been
shipped from Scott county for long
time were loaded Dee. /. There were
1O,O 900 head of them and it took forty
five double-deck cars to ship them.
They were shipped to Stafford county
to be fed for market They are all
fine grade Shropshire wcthers and are
excellent condition. They arc the
property of A. j. Knollin, the great
feeder and shipper of Kansas City, No
The sheep industry is becoming one of
growing Importance in some sections
of the state. and capitalists are COM
ing to see great advantages in this
class of investments.
The Kansas court of appeals has just
decided a case involving a new ques-
ton in the Kansas prohibitory law.
The Standard Oil company at Concor-
dla attached and attempted to sell
liquor belonging to a druggist to salts
fly judgment Judge Sturges of
Cloud county held that liquor could be
sold only as specified by law. The
case was appealed and all the legal
ability possible was brought before
the higher court to have the case re-
versed. The court of appeals held
that liquor could be sold only for scien-
tifc, medical and mechanical purposes.
Were the sheriff allowed to sell liquors
at public auction he would soon be-
come saloonkeeper, selling liquor to
the highest bidder daily.
Kansas farmers are shaking their
fat sides so heartily as they look at
their granaries and Cancelled mort
cages, the impression has got out that
the state is experiencing earthquake
shocks.
Marion county is the only county in
the state which produced this year
more than million bushels, each, of
the three staple crops, wheat, oats and
corn. This justifies our old time con-
tention that Marion county is the best
all.around county in the state, says
the Marion Record.
The average Kansan will elbow"
himself the coming Christmas.
The 344 riclls of alfalfa hay on the
bottom lands between Dodge City and
Cimarron, contain from ten to twenty
tons each. Alfalfa growers who have
no cattle to feed, are selling this hay
at SO ton on the ground. The de
maud for it will increase as cold
weather approaches. The number of
cattle i'll the country is greater than