The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-02-26
Geese feathers are advertised for sale

A burglar at Hutchinson broke his
skeleton key off in lock and had to
retire empty-handed
Several men at Wellington will start
state bank there this year if the crops
begin to turn out well, by summer.
The gas companies of lola which
have recently consolidated supply
three hundred and sixty consumers
1t is said that Anderson Grey. of the
famous hypnotic trial, is organizing a
company at Kansas City to go to Cuba
Over at lola they really believe that
Fred Funston stands up and let's tho
Spaniards fatten their bullets on his
chest.
The son of the county clerk of Coffey
county has passed the necessary ex-
animation and is now cadet at West
Point.
The lawyers ut Hutchinson are sign
ing a petition to the legislature pro-
testing against the abolition OF the
Ninth judicial district.
Russell Harding, formerly OF the
Missouri Pacific in Kansas, is now gem
eral superintendent of the Great North
ern with headquarters at Chicago.
The man who is making the most
noise about railroads in the Kansas
legislature lives in sight of only one
road and they are tearing that up.
The Garden City roller mills, with a
capacity of $50 barrels a day, was burn
ed recently. Three car loads OF flour
| and 1900 bushels of wheat were also
DESTROYED. The insurance reaches
$500.
Since the Baldwin City girl was fined
five dollars for hugging boy, the
Methodist college young men there
are required to give oath that they
will not tell before they can get any
hugs from their girls.
OnGTln MCIdll, VI oSSHiSN
requisition paper on the 10th from Gov
ernor Leedy allowing him to take
Frank Doran to Missouri to be tried
for horse stealing Doran was arrest
ed recently at Atchison.
The county commissioners have re-
| ceived demand from the Winfield inn
beetle asylum for clothing for thee
Shawnee county inmates But the re-
cords indicate that but one Shawnee
county inmate is held there.
In Kansa, when men leave town they
do not take their signs along. They
hang there for years, when the man
who owned them are dead and gone.
The other day at Mcpherson a man
saw the name of his long lost brother
on a sign He rushed madly up the
stairs. Another lawyer had the room,
but he had never heard of the man
whose name was on the sign. He had
moved away years before.
Chautauqua has a man by the name
of Cloyd, who makes practice of sow
ing his wheat field with salt. He has
a new variety of wheat which he calls
the Kentucky May, or our Little May,
but big grain and chaff, smooth head
wheat that ripere in May, and which
he expects to yield close to forty bush
els an acre. He got the seed from his
old home in Kentucky and raised
enough of it last year SO that he has
fifty bushels of it sowed.
Read what Topeka tax assessor
writes about his business and then
take it to heart: Take the majority of
people, whom l call in rything else
Just about as honest as they can be,
aud they would not misrepresent for
the world. But when it comes to tax
alton they are about as dishonest as
they can be, and il is not in any class
either. They lie about different things.
| They Will lie ABOUT Jnelr real estate
just as they will lie about their person
atty"
Mrs. NJ. p Gibbons of Pratt has Sc
cured pension through Chester Long
of $50 a month. She is 20 years of age
and until last year refused to apply fol-
one.
A Bourbon county merchant sighed
an innocent agreement with an agent
to sell spectacles an receipt for doz
en- of the glasses. Two lays later the
agreement" turned up in the hands O.
a broker as note for 1925 and the re
ceipt was for fine piano. He didn''
need the spectacles to see what kind o.
fool he had made of himself.
Dick Blue went to Reed the othel
day to get him to recognize him for the
purpose of appropriating tie Fort Hay
reservation to the state. Reed refused
to do it.
A Syracuse man went to Kansas CITY
and formed partnership in a collec