The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-09-17
STATE sponrsMEN's ASSOCIATION.


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lover of the gun, come to Wichita dur
ing the State Fair, and be present OF
the LIST day of October, 1897 to help us
organize "The State Sportsmen's asso
ciation," an organization for the pro
lection of the game and fish of the
state nf Kansas.
We now have the laws and need your
presence to help us enforce them, and
when you read this do not think il
means the other man, for it means you.
If Sou think it possible for you to come,
send your name to DR.. j. w. Shuts,
state fish and game commissioner,
Wichita, Kan, so that proper arrange
ments may be made for your reception,
WICHITA FISH AND GAME BLUB.
The Bourbon county criminal docket
is exceptionally large.
Cherryvale wants canning factory
and is hustling for one.
The electric belt fakir worked 0tta.
wa where there are two daily newspa.
pers.
Spring township, Butler county, is
afflicted with wildman of the corn
! fields.
! Pennsylvania seed wheat will be
bred to Dickinson county soil the COM
ing season.
The city council of Fort Scott haze
decided that high school pupils must
| pay their tnition or quit school.
A little tot at Eldorado got hold of Il
cup of gasoline and drank quantity
of it. Its life was saved with difficult
ty.
1t is given cut that 125 to $50 men
can secure work in the vicinity of
Sterling at S1.25 a day cutting broom
corn.
Judge Haen of the Shawnee county
district court decides that justice of
the peace in Kansas has power to i'm
prison for contempt
The Anheuser-Busch people have
sent $25 to the band association at
Winfield to be contested for as the To-
cal managers see fit.
The opening of the schools of Rice
county has been postponed q few weeks
in order to give parents chance to
work their children in the broom corn
fields.
Judge Foster has issued an order
compelling Senator Battey to furnish
Florence with water for fire purposes.
Battey has 4 water mill and had di'
verified the water from the town.
A colored man strolled into Yelling
ton the other day and paid taxes on
his farm of $40 acres This is remark
able, when you consider that this man
was slave less than forty years ago.
Auditor of state Morris and Secretary
of Stale Bush counted the money in
the state treasury and have certified
that they found SOIL, 74s,SO in cash on
hand.
The hunt for pearls which has crazed
half the population of Arkansas, has
followed the creeks and sloughs until
it has reached Cherryvale and numer-
Gus persons are seen daily wading in
Lake Tanko catching clans and ma
laria.
The farmer is the favored man of
this bountiful year. and schemers, IA
kris and sharpers are not only seeking
his cash, but highwaymen are holding
him up on lonely roads. He will soon
have to use an iron clad wagon box
with port holes on the side.
Hutchinson is to have a new finan-
cial institution. 1t is the St John
Trust company with paid up capital
of $4,000 Two banks of Stafford
county and the bank of Macksville
have united to make loans on cattle
and buy and sell cattle paper. The
new company will move to Hutchinson
at once.
The female brass band with trav-
cling show made lot of masculine
hearts at Council Grove go "toot,
toot"
Kansas should congratulate herself.
We are geographically southern state
but we have no great waterways and
the yellow fever can't touch us.
Box cars at present fill the place of
the Frisco depot burned at Neodesha
last week. Railroad officials have
been in the town surveying the ruins,
but no plans regarding a new depot
were divulged.
Burglars at Newton have such a
time picking out sand burs that their
night excursions are no longer enioya-
BILE
A Galena man who died leaving a
comfortable insurance of $780, 900, hast
ened the end by drinking $50 bottles