The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-03-05
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

cost to the county of 35 cents foot.
Comic valentines were the cause OF a
row among the 400 of Harper society.
Pittsburg is inclined to brag over
having the only opium joint in Kansas.
The real plutocrat at Dighton is the
man who had sleigh during the snow
which lasted twelve hours.
1t is reported from the social circles
of Ell Dorado that the widows are grad
ually crowding the girls off the stage
A swell party was given at Garden
City recently. The guests all came,
sat down and looked at each other for
compile of hours and then went home
The oil leases OF land adjacent to
Toronto have been surrendered by les
see. Two years ago an eastern com
pany leased 10000 acres of Kansas
land for prospecting purposes.
Hodgeman county has a sensation.
An apparition which looks like man
is hanging to post, but no one has
had the nerve yet to get near enough
to tell whether it is u fake or the real
thing. ,-. -.. .... ..ss[t
The city of Eureka pounced down on
man for selling boy cigarette pa
pers. The town thought it would be
test case and got ready to take sides.
But the case was compromised out OF
court at
Garnett has failed to pay its preach
ers lately and one of them remarks
that if few righteous men were re-
moved the difference between that city
and hell would be that Garnett would
have more water. M
The fight of ducks has been obsery-
ed by Leavenworth sportsmen. Goodly
numbers of mallards and pintails were
bagged by the sportsmen whose in
stinct tells them when to HE away to
the duck grounds.
At Ottawa man has secured the con-
tract to furnished the ties for the
branch for the Alma and Manhattan
railroad, which in under construction.
He has already purchased considerable
timber out on Tauy creek.
viii Long, who was arrested in
Franklin county charged with the
burning of new school house near
Bronson, has confessed and implicated
his two younger brothers. They are
all in the Franklin county Jail await
ing the action of legal authority.
A new fake is being worked in But
Ter county. A woman book agent
comes along and leaves book for ex-
animation. The next day mau comes
along and collects the books. Next
day the woman comes back, declares
that the mon was thief and demands
pay.
An Atchison girl, recently admitted
to practice In the criminal courts at st.
Louis, has been appointed by Judge
Zachritz to defend Jennie A. Johns, IN
dicted on charge of criminal larceny.
This is the first time a woman will APP
pear as counsel in ST. Louis criminal
court.
A blind man who has been begging
in southern Kansas was suspected and
searched at Arkansas City. He had in
valise $500 in gold; two expensive
meerschaum pipes, blind mans watch
costing 5000, four boxes of CIGARS 200
watch charms piccolo, a quart of
perfumery and numerous railroad
passes
A Rush county woman who don't
read the newspapers sent fifty cents
for receigpt for making good coffee
She received the following: practice
until you get it exactly right and then
keep on making it that way"
"a. The difference between Arkansas
and Kansas came from the Indians
The name ark means cactus from
which the Indians formerly make bows
The Indians who carried these bows
lived in Arkansas but were related to
the Indians who occupied Kama. They
were known as Arc-Kanzas.
western Kansas paper thinks that
advertising may get black eye if the
''dear little child" which has been adj
vertised as ''lost" in every paper in the
country is not found pretty soon.
A Syracuse man went to Kansas City
and formed partnership in collec-
ton agency. This is what he writes
home: II have been collection now
three months, and, it is no eXageration
to say that l have eaten corn bread
until my teeth are worn to the gums;
and pork until the bristles on my back
are six inches long"
Over one thousand steers, costing
$50, 900, were put off the'train at Larn-
ed the other day and driven to a ranch.
Tbav came from FL Paso Texas