The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-01-15

the name of Biles
The State Historical society is max
ing war on the state library.
Humboldt will put up s1s, 900 for on
oil refinery. Humboldt has just walked
up
La Crosse proposes to load the
Wichita Normal school bill with n
"rider."
Over half million bushels of corn
are cribbed on the TOWNSHIP of Lee
banon.
The Atchison Champion wants the
office of state printer abolished and
the work let to the lowest bidder.
Lane county produces good celery.
A little water and patience will dc
anything out in the short grass coun-
try.
The pighton Dramatic company is
going to assail Ness City. All the guns
in Ness county have been loaded and
the town wall strengthened.
A stats officer objects to the publ
cation of the report of the state irriga-
ton board lie should not allow his
hostility to water to go to far.
A standard Kansas joke is for fell
lows horse to get out of its own stable
at night and travel of it's own accord
to the stable of some girls father.
David Gore is now treasurer of the
state of Illinois. When Governor-elect
Leedy of Kansas Was boy he lived in
Illinois and worked on Cores farm.
The American Volunteers are always
ready to fight the devil on his own
ground. Ballington Booth will be in
Topeka when the legislature meets
The only bank in Cawker City will
go out of business. Its owners are
making money, but they are homesick
and they will return to New York
state.
An Atchison preacher has saved 296
souls i'll the town, and some Of his peo
Pile want to let him out of his job.
Atchison people know where they want
to go.
Two Larned men shipped 16,00(
pounds of jack rabbit to New York
commission firm last week. That's
not giving much good for evil, but it is
something
The Hays City postoffice robbers had
q preliminary trial and their guilt
seems positive. They were bound oven
to the United States court at Topeka.
They are old offenders.
Three men in Kansas have defed ali
the analyses of newspaper correspond
ents--T-ank Doster, David Martin and
John j. Ingalls,. Mel her one has aver
been truthfully analysed
Governor Morrill, was given rice in
horseless carriage the other day in
Topeka and exclaimed: What can we
expect next?" The Governor never
was exactly epigrammatic.
Jerry Shaw, an engineer on the San
ia Fe, says he has made the run from
Garden City to Dodge, distance of fifty
miles, in 43 minutes. Few engines on
the road can make this tune.
Burlington cigar manufacturer
made 332, $50 cigars last year and paid
wages to the amount of $305 month.
He is greatly helped in his trade by
the town people, who make it rule to
smoke homemade cigars.
Wyandotte county stand first in pop.
ulation among Kansas counties, and
first in amount of taxable property.
1t is also first in potato growing, hav-
ing produced ss,779 bushels in 1896.
AS a man named Brown is to be
speaker and another Brown is to be
state printer some good strong man
by that name ought to throw himself
into the senatorial race and get the
TIDE at Jne uOOu.
Isaac N. Van Hoesen, a prominent
Lawrence man, was found dead in his
Office on the morning of Jan. 9th. He
had been suffocated by gas from a coal
oil stove. He was pioneer OF Kansas,
having located in the state in 1871.
He was "a years old and carried $31,-
900 life insurance.
Rev. G. Lowther, presiding elder of
the Winfield district, in his church pa
per, the Christian Herald, advertises
for "a preacher who can preach like an
angel, raise the dead, call out the stay
at-homes, stop the mouths of grum-
blers, keep up the finances, have re-
vival and live on wind"
Roger Stitler CT Harper is out in an
interview in which he notifies the COM
munity that he has new boy in his
family and he doesn't have to raise
him on the bottle, either"
In every Santa Fe passenger coach
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