The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-03-19

The Kansas legislature, after Its
usual session, adjourned Friday oven
ing, March 12.
The clamor for an extra session OF
! the legislature comes from the Topeka
boarding houses
Dickerson, the Sedgwiclz hotel man
who was shot in the recent affray there
will probably recover
The first thing on the program Of
the Hutchinson jubilee this year will
be the school ehurus contest.
There are more candidates for the
| postoffice at Wichita than there arc
ways of dancing the two-step.
The authorities of Reno county have
decided to create rockpile for the
p 'isoners 10. spend their time on.
The Free Silver campaign pole al
Wellington has been cut down. II
overbalanced and became dangerous.
Mayor Cunningham of Arkansas City
has notified the people that he has had
enough and will not stand for re-elec-
ton.
1t is said that the latest Kansas
cyclone cellars are provided with a
chute from the nearest bedroom win.
dow.
The people of Caldwell are offended
at the Wellington papers for publish
ing news rejecting on the morality OF
Caldwell.
Winfield college boasts of getting
eighth place in the collegiate orator.
cal contest. There were eight con-
testants.
The Kansas woman who goes east
and comes back with an elegant
stock of millinery is just now doing
that annual act
The Ellinwood barber who gave a
customer shave and 90 cents change
for Mexican dollar, understands free
silver better than he did.
1t is rather mean in Medford after
getting the Hutchinson Southern, to
announce that the road will not be eX-
tended tor year or two.
Patrick Barney, an old Rock Island
fireman, who was known extensively
in Kansas, was killed in the railroad
yards at Fort Worth last week.
Charles Medd and E. H. Hirsch, hith-
erto prominent farmers near Waterloo,
Ia, this week moved their families and
effects to farms in Cowley county.
Pie literally is not good for the APP
petite of a man who eats 1t and figura-
lively not good for the appetite of the
man who lets other fellows eat it.
The Kansas farmers will raise more
cotton this year than heretofore. They
are just discovering that this profita-
BILE crop can be successfully grown in
Kansas.
The average Kansans mind is so
deeply absorbed in his spring work
that nothing else is of interest to him,
not even the great Corbett-Fitzsim-
mons fight.
A man at Arkansas City has pur-
chased the telegraph pole advertising
right and is now jerking off the old
signs and putting new ones on. In
Kansas town telegraph pole looks
good deal like an Egypton obelisll.
A shabby looking man ran up against
the best Splinter in Kinslcy the other
day, race was pulled off and the
shabby stranger beat the local cham
plcn hollow and took all his money.
The local paper warns the local sports
that this thing must stop. The shah
by man makes q business of working
Kansas towns in this way.
The inspection of ex-Coal Oil Inspec-
tor Taylor has been dropped.
Every few months a certrin young
man in town engages in an enterprise,
and the good people praise him for his
ambition and energy, and hope that he
will succeed better than in previous
undertakings
A good many farmers in Atchison
county are claiming that much of the
wheat is almost ruined. 1t is claimed
that the wheat sowed late is most dam
aged, but that which is sowed early
Will yield fairly we'll
The Inauguration ceremonies were
graced by the presence of the mayor of
st. Mary's, Kansas.
A Topeka man went home to dinner
one evening last week, and found that
his wife had cloped with another fell
low and was in Kansas>City. The hus-
band expressed them box of flowers,
sent them congraiulatory telegram,
mt on hic host clothes and in half an