The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-11-26


Water is so scarce at TT. Scott thai
some of the factories may have to shut
down.
Usage City has curfew ordinance
which is not operative between April
and October.
A Kansas woman was given three
months in jail the other day for thrash
her husband.
At sale of Poland China swine In
Washington county, sixty-two head
brought SOL.
The hundred guests partoolS of
Scottish Rite festival at Masonic hall
Topeka, recently.
Ellis county will build new court
house, and the con tract calls for the
use of native stone.
A Dickinson county man named
Brass has just takon unto himself
woman named Tacks.
A Lawrence man has repudiated the
devil He says the devil no more ex'
lists than does Santa Claus
A Barton county hunter bagged a
white quail which has been sent to the
State university to be mounted.
John Harvey, of the roundhouse
force, who has charge of the stationary
engine, at Newton, has worked for the
Santa Fe company little over nine
teen years.
Young people of Pretty Prairie have
passed through matrimonial epidemic
and the supply of manageable folks
is exhausted, but there is fine new
crop coming on.
On certain vacant lot in Leaven-
worth the school boys are playing In
dian. They have built village of
tepees out of big crop of tall weeds
that grew there
People who imagine the Salvation
army people are short on wit should
note the fact that the army in Hutch
inson has again been arrested and
thrown into Jail for violating an ordi-
nance. They thus secure grub and
lodging and have the infinite pleasure
The fourth annual exhibit of the
Parsons aod Southwestern Poultry as
ISOLATION will be given in Parsons on
December 9TH to 18th inclusive. The
officers of the association have issued
very attractive premium list show
ing the regular and special premiums
offered.
The new waterworks commenced
last spring at the Haskell institution
at Lawrence are now completed, but
the supply of water is not all that
could be desired. The wells are down
to solid rock and it is the intention to
pierce the rock later on in the hopes
getting bigger vein.
Henry Eiche, living near Sumner,
has discovered a good vein of coal on
land belonging to John j. Ingalls, on
Walnut creek, six miles south of the
city. The vein crops out of bank in
the Walnut creek bottom and being
only short distance from the railroad
station at Dalbey, Mr. Eiche thinks it
would pay to work it. The coal has
been tested by several farmers in that
and it seems to be of good
quality.
The capacity OF the Kansas state
normal is just now being tested. The
entrance of large number of new
students at the end of the first half
term makes an unprecedented attend
ance at this time of the year Very
few stopped at the close of the first
half and it is estimated that the net
increase will be at least 1875. The
model school is compelled to refuse
students, SO crowded is it, and the
too, is full The total
this year will surpass that
of any year since the institution was
founded.
In one of the section gangs on the
Southern Kansas railroad not long
since the boss discovered that one stall
wart young fellow was the son of
rich railroad president of Georgia He
mentioned it to the young man and
the young man quit at once The
young man, at the request of his faith
er is learning the railroad business
from the ground up.
James Whitcomb Riley, who is in
Topeka, says that Eugene Ware is
gifted in literary way. but he makes
the gift subject to his whims.
Five hundred citizens of Seneca have
petitioned the city council to pass
curfew ordinance. The matter was
worked up by the local w. Z. I. U.
The Second Congregational church
at Lawrence is being rebuilt. 1t was
burned during the Quantrell's raid and
when it was rebuilt quantity of the
brick damaged in the fire, were used,
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