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

few days. aah ',It@
1t costs ten dollars TO shoot craps in
Strong City and get caught at it,
The ;old settlers give the gayest
dances Cottonwood Falls has during
the season.
The dog-catcher at wellington is re-
quested to include cats also w,t&lp his
jurisdiction.
1t is reported that during h;s eoua-
toral career Senator Peffe: delivered
over 400 speeches.
The city council of the Garden City
has furnished the fire boys torches in
places of lanterns.
A domestic at Wellington has been
put in Jail for stealing woman's peck
etbook containing 81.
The stock yard lobby at Topeka is
said to be getting in its work fine and
will win out over the legislature.
William Margrave, of Fort Scott,
aged 70, has been justice of the peace
continually for forty-three years.
The opinion appears to be growing
in Kansas that some one is blocking
the federal pie coun ter from Kansas.
Jaquins of Cowley county is very
rich man. 1t is said that he spent over
IS, 900 to be elected to the legislature.
Miss Hattie Smith of Atchison, has
signed a two-year contract with An
gustin DAILY, the theater man of New
York.
The story that the wheat in Kansas
is hopelessly dead; is intended for the
perusal of the Chicago board of trade
only.
The dentists at st. Marys are both
such handsome young men that the
young girls are all having their teeth
pulled. @1-
A Mum social was given recently
in Wellington. Every time any one
was caught talking she was fined one
cent word.
A Hutchinson minister in marrying
couple recently added inadvertently
after the regular ceremony: Yield not
to temptation"
st. Paul mentioned the Cretans. A
Biblical subscriber told Ed Greer this
and Ed wrote an editorial on it, not
giving the Bibal student any credit at
all.
Aunt Lie, colored lady of quality
at Arkansas City, was tried on Feb. ~
for stealing $50 chickens. Personal
liberty seems to be gone in this coud-
try.
The Oxford Register wants a law
providing for the election of county
the publishers of the coun-
ty and state printer by the publishers
of the state.
The X. L. Dram matte Club will get
even with the Legislature for reducing
the university appropriation by play
ing in Topeka and sending comps to
the Legislators.
The southern Kansas mills for the
last three weeks have faced n condi-
ton which was new to them. The
roads were so bad that they could not
get enough wheat to keep them going.
One of the Indians in the employee of
the Chill oco school who has been steady
for years got an Indian streak on the
other day and Wandered off. When
last heard of he was in Coffeyville.
From all sections OF the country
round about us come reports of the
fine appearance of wheat fields. The
season has been especially good on
this crop. We hope to see 1t produce
and bring good price.
Mcpherson boys stand in the hall
way and wait for their girls 70 come
from church. Their mammals are OBJ
jecting because the boys catch cold.
They might make the boys go to
church and see how that would work.
The city marshal at Dodge City has
agreed to plant trees along Main street
and water and care for them providing
the city council would allow him this
The city council accepted
his generous offer at their last meet
ing.
Orders were issued of the 10th by the
Hutchinson & Southern railway man.
agement to increase the force of men
on the extension of the road
and push work as rapidly as possible
to a connection with the Rock Island
at Medford.
Tank Wilson of Harrington has the
sword used by the grandfather, who
was a lieutenant in the war of the
revolution, and during the war of 1912
was an officer in the Kentucky Rifles.
In the later war he was engaged in the