The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-03-26
KANSAS ITEMS or INTEREST.

Leavenworth will have a base Dali
ark it it dosen't cost anything.
The Christian church at Salina has
made net gain of thiriy'six, with
severe. precincts to hear from.
T. +. Eaton, the leading merchant OF
Lane county, whose mind has been un-
balanced for the last six months, is
lead.
The imbecile asylum at Winfield is
to have an additional cottage for which
the legislature appropriated the sum
of $35, 600
A Hiawatha doctor has made the dis
coyery too late for legislative action,
that sitting in revolvidg chairs causes
insanity.
The custom of having candidates for
postoffice "announce" in the papers
like candidates for county office, ought
to be started.
An Atchison girl has gone to New
York to go on the stage. This is bet
ter than organizing amateur shows
and invading neighboring towns like
they do in Lawrence.
A Topeka school teacher told boy
that when she was his age she knew
all the presidents names by heart
'tHuh!" he said. "There weren't SO
many of them them"
Aman came in from Butler county
yesterday with a load of peafowls,
beautiful birds all paired Off He sold
them out in few minutes at 81 per
pair to Wichita people.
Thomas Beattie, who has land rent
ed on the island near Atchison, says he
will not put in much of a crop next
season, believing that the river will
take away a large portion of the island.
The river has taken away about 90
acres of land during the winter, and is
now cutting more rapidly than ever,
chunks weighing ton going in at one
time The river is not far from the b.
& NJ. track at the head of the island.
The mysterious disappearance of c. |
J. Johnson, who has been missing from
Lindsburg for the past four weeks, is |
at last solved. Information reached |
Salina recently that This body was
found in the river about mile from |
town. The discovery was made by |
Andrew Swanson, who was fishing in
the river above the dam. Something !
caught his hook and when he succeeded |
in drawing it up the body was on the
line.
Burge & Son of Topeka, who own a
large irrigation ranch on the Solomon
river, in Graham county, have been
in Hill City during the week making
arrangements to plant 100 acres in pota
toes this spring. Last year they had
out so acres, 40 acres of which were
washed out by floods. The remainder
bore we'll So well are they pleased
with last years results of irrigation,
they decided to double their acreage
this year
Kansas people are preparing to cap
ture the territorial offices in the In
dian Territory, as the following notice
from McAlester paper indicates: Ex-
Attorney General Bradford of Topeka,
James f. Craig of Wichita and Fred
H. Kellogg of Emporia have recently
formed law firm nnder the name of
Bradford, Craig & Kellogg and already
have a good business p L. Soper, as
sistant attorney, and Mr.. Ady, will be
United States attorney in the first
district, and if General Bradford fails
to get something from Mckinley we
miss our guess.
The good housekeeper is just now
busily engaged with the spring house
cleaning, arranging her outdoor flow
er beds and preparing her garden for
the usual spring seeding, which is the
general routine as the spring-time APP
proaches.
Peter Hibel, Jr, living near Nor
land. Graham county accidently re-
ceived the contents of loaded gun in
his left arm, above the elbow, last
week while driving from his house to
town, badly SCATTERING it. IL is
thought amputation is necessary.
The Swimming station at Horton for
the Topeka creamery is now an assured
fact. Nearly all the stock has been
subscribed, and the cream from several
hundred cows promised by leading
farmers of Atchison and Brown coun-
ties
Mr.. Delesdernier of Greeley county
has at last found his calling. He is
taking part in amateur theatricals.
People go miles to see him. If people
didn't go miles he wouldn't have any
audience, as he lives in that kind of
country.