The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-10-01

The authorities at Ottawa are arrest
ing men who do not pay their poll-taX.
Chanutc has nineteen school teachers
and most of them are nineteen years
old.
The water works and electric light
plants at Dodge City will be consoli-
dated.
Ottawa has diphtheria in the schools
and is is feared the schools will have
to be closed.
The grand jury question is the only
thing Lyon county peoply have LEFT &c
fight oyer.
A Saline county man has started a
skunk farm. He will also raise IA crop
of polecats.
Camen's military band at Wellington
will lead the Priests of Pallas parade
in Kansas City.
Topeka citizens are kicking because
! the whistle of an ice factory wakes
them up at 6 a. m.
There is said to be places in Wilson
county where IL man can be admitted
to the bar without passing an cXami-
nation.
Jewell county farmers who were
elated by the wheat crop and the corn
prospect are cast down by the rayages
of hog cholera.
Coffeyville is to have anfelectric-
light plant owned by the city. The
proposition is to spend $1,000 for the
creation of a plant.
Owing to the high price that wheat
has brought this year, the real swell
society events in Kansas this winter
will be given in the country school
houses.
One treble about making statutes
of the old Kansans is that marble is
white and correct representation OF
the primeval Kansas SHIRT front would
be impossible.
Two head of cattle have died in La
bette county and the Government Stock
Inspector pronounces their death due
to Texas fever. A rigid quarantine
has been established.
Mosquitoes are so bad in same parts
Sherman county as to become a me-
mace to life. Horses and cattle suffer
terribly from their attacks and chill
dren have to be kept shut in the houses,
The six great corn counties, Smith,
Jewell, Republic, Washington, Mar
shall and Nemaha-all in row on the
Nebraska Unexpectedly will produce
over forty million bushels of corn this
year.
At business meeting of the South
eastern Kansas Log Rolling associa-
ton, after a hot fight between Galena,
lola and Coffeyvllle, it was finally de.
cided to hold the next log rolling at
lola.
The most conscientious man i'm Kan
sas is Conductor French of the Missouri
Pacific, who liyes in Coffeyville. He
has just returned from fishing trip
up north and absolutely refuses to lie
about his catch.
A Harper county woman after being
pounded severely by brutal husband,
has spent the last three months trying
to get him released from the county
Jail. And she succeeded. She must
want more pounding.
Fort SCOTS prohibition quarrel seems
to be getting along just now without
the aid of the professional agitator-
the lawyer for saloon revenue, who
once ran drugstore at Bronson and
got into trouble for selling whisky.
Topel1a's saloons are running again,
but the barleepers wear the same old
hunted look. What Topeka needs is
return of confidence; a condition that
will make a barlleeper feel safe at
least take the necessary time to mix
cocktail.
The new block system has gone into
operation on the Santa Fe route.
The Texas fever has not yet been
among the cattle of Jackson
county. The start of the plague was
traced to the Morris ranch where sew
eral hundred head were sold Il few
weeks ago and distributed in several
parts of the county. Several of those
at the Morris sale have lost
cattle. A car load of cattle shipped to
Kansas City since the sale was pro-
nounced diseased by the authorities
and quarantined.
A dog out at Syracuse fall in an so
foot well and was fished out unhurt.
Wheat shipments last week nearly
reached high water mark for Russell
cars. The shipments from
the city of Russell was 40 cars, which
is six cars more than on any other pre-