The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-02-12

ment in Oberln.
The district conferences have begun
and the smart pullet is hiding out
The Leavenworth district court has
record of Divorce in two minutes
Kansas was visited by a four inch
snow during the first week in Febru
airy.
The Halstead city council has decid
ed to rebuild the old dam by the mil
site.
There is either mountain lion or a
monumental liar prowling around Ell
linwood.
The newspaper war at Newton makes
the Cuban affair seem like very small
potatoes
The change in political control did
not affect the game at Topeka. 1t is
still poker.
The Missouri Pacific is said to be
planning to extend from Kanopols tc
Ellsworth
The resignation of the city librarian
at Ottawa 10 agitating the public mind
of that town.
An Argonia justice has just fined
four boys there for disturbing the peace
of pie social.
Ell Dorado people are chipping in
to fight the suit brought against the
title to half the town.
The Hotel Ryan which burned al
Pratt recently, was Quilt at Saratoga
and afterwards moved to Pratt in sec
tions.
! Professor Franklin of the state uni
versity has joined the travellers. He
will go to Costa Rica to look into some
mines.
Emporia has organized a Business
Mems Association" and any creameries
or factories wanting locations will be
given a chance.
Ellen Beach Yaw did not take well
in Emporia where there are about for
ty soprano soloists who think they can
beat her singing.
The State journal says there are
fifty joints in Topeka, which isn't very
many considering the way politics
drive men to drink.
There are 1916 miles of abandoned
railroad in Kansas. There are also
several other miles that the owners
would gladly abandon were they not
in the same condition as was the man
who had the bear by the tail.
Kansas was thirty-six years old Jan
uary Goth. Thirty-three states were
in the Union before Kansas was adj
mitted, and eleven came in since her
entrance. Ia certain sense she is
among the new states, for the govern
ment under the constitution was near
ly three-quarters of century old when
she was let in. Hardly any of the for
ty-five states, however, have helped to
make more history. In this respect
she is not much behind Virginia, New
York, Massachusetts, or any oIher of
the original thirteen. Much of the
history, too, has been highly credita-
BILE.
A lady, smart, intelligent, educa-
ted woman, too, and old enough to
know thing or two-went into drug
store few evenings ago in certain
Kansas town. She had about dozen
empty quinine capsules, and with an
innocence, not to say ignorance, that
staggered the druggist, asked him to
fill them up with quinine for her. The
obliging druggist did as directed, and
putting the refilled capsules in box,
wrote directions on the lid: Swallow
capsules and all" 1t is now feared the
woman misunderstood the direction and
tried to swallow the box without re-
the lid.
A western Kansas paper says: The
unsta bleness of the things of the earth
earthly is well illustrated in the man.
mel in which our delightful dago cli-
mate vanished when the blizzard
struck us.
prominent Kansas paper says that
in summer we are told to suffer the
heat patiently because it makes corn
grow and suits the farmers. In winter
we are to bear patiently the zero
weather because it makes the ice men
happy. When do the people get their
rights?
Up in Dickinson county as in other
counties the country correspondents OF
papers often get into discussions. The
discussions in Dickinson county was
over what animal Nebucadnezzar was
changed into. Some said an ass, Others
an eagle and others an OK.
What the legislature ought to do is
pass law that any paper that uses
more than eight columns a week fight
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