The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-01-22
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

TO get about $50 out OF tho follows VINO
booze up every month.
A vaudeville company broke up Mt
Hiawatha and it will take some time
for the town to recover
At Newton the girl clerks are agi-
tating for early closing to give them
time to make new toys
Ewing Herbert says there are many
different kinds of kisses and the one
you want is the one that is hard to get.
Lane county produces good celery.
little water and patience will do
anything out in the short grass coun-
ry.
A chattel mortgage was given in
Rice county last week on Jerry Simp'
son. This Jerry Simpson is "bay
gelding."
One of the troubles with the postof-
fee at Hutchinson it develops, was
that everybody knew the combination
Of the safe.
A Saiina young man who fell out
with his girl two weeks before Christ
mas is now trying to make up but she
won't have it.
The Arkansas City Traveller thinks
the new brewery will suit Wichita bet
ter than opening the Arkansas river
to navigation.
A Shawnee county farmer says his
cows are giving such rich milk he has
to grease the pals in order to keep the
milk from sticking.
A Barton county man makes a regu-
lar business of killing farmers hogs
for them and delivering them dressed
at SO cents each.
The relatives of the Wellington man
who returned $500 he had wrongfully
drawn from the government have had
him put in custody as insane.
At social at Tribune the ladies
stood man on his head and poured
cold water down his trousers legs.
Who said women couldn't run a sue
cessful secret society?
The Liberal News reports man in
Its town who doesn't take n newspaper.
He recently sent so cents in answer to
b lie &c
last" He received the reply: "Make
your coat and vest first
An Oklahoma paper says that any
Republican who breaks over the line
for the pie counter before March will
be convicted of soonersm. Kansans
should also adopt this method and
avoid all political trouble.
Becky Sharpe, in the Mail and
Breeze, says a man buying gloves for
r present for lady should always get
No. 5]A They won't fit, but she will
be pleased to think her hands are con-
Sidered so small and she can exchange
the gloves.
} Some interest is excited throughout
Kansas by the reports that the Wich-
ito reservation and some of the Choc-
taw lands are to be opened for settle
ment. By the arrangement with the
Choctaw Indians 10, $50 square miles,
or 6,6SS, 900 acres of territory have
been brought within the jurisdiction
of the federal authorities. 1t is coun-
try as large as New Jersey and Della
ware combined. The land will be sold
to actual settlers, and the transfer
will eventuate in giving good titles to
homes and establishing law and order
In a region which has been a rendez-
vous for desperadoes, to the terror of
we'll disposed people.
In 1896 the snow fall in Kansas was
eleven inches below the average.
st. John has had carnival" one
of the features of which was drill by
sixteen Cuban patriots. The patriots
were pretty girls and call for volun-
teers would have secured regiment
of men.
An Arkansas City young man sent
his best girl box of flowers and could
not understand why she sent them
back until he noticed that they were
packed in a box labeled "men's bal
briggan drawers"
A Downs newspaper man has back
slid and gone to preaching.
There is a concealed laugh some
where in the request of Cheney wom-
IN to young man who called on her
daughter to return the nursing bottle
which he had carried away in his over.
coat pocket
This is the time for southern and
western Kansas to get together and
get United States senator. The next
opportunity is four long years off.
Reconstruction has got his hands
down Times jeans.