The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-02-26
The most skillful lobby at Topeka is

Pearl is the Christian name of many
Kansas men, How does it come?
Judge Carver has concluded that Sa-
lima is too small. He will move to To-
pel1a.
A Topeka lawyer says that a great
mistake is made in employing attor-
neys to lobby.
One of the correspondents in the Rice
County Eagle writes all his matter in
German dialect.
At a masque ball held in Newton re-
Gently the flowers for the whole alone
cost six dollars and eighteen cents.
A birthday party was given at Hutch
inson recently, the host of which, Mr.
Edward Eldbury, was 76 years OF age.
James Wick, q Topeka man, has
been appointed assistant secretary o.
the Grand lodge of Masons of Kansas.
The annual meeting of the A. o. u.
w. Grand lodge of Kansas will be held
at Salina on February 20 to ~ inclu'
sive.
The farmers are now making COM
plant that the Russian thistle has en-
tirely disappeared. 1t was used Tor
! fuel.
1t is said that good sized shrek at
his back would cause the sergeant-at-
arms of the house at Topeka to drop
dead.
A Kansas railroad man has invented
telephone extending from the deck
of caboose along long train to the
engine cab.
The Prohibitonists at Newton met
the other night and collected money to
protect their hobby in the present Kan
sas Legislature.
Jack Burlt is the only Atchison man
who will attend the Nevada fight He
has started already, as he may have to
walk part of the way.
Small thefts have become so numer'
Gus near South Haven that the sherlh
has advised the organization OF local
| vigilants committees.
Miss Ray of Arkansas City recently
married and in speaking of her now
the newspapers instead of calling her
''nee Ray" say "Ex-Ray."
The Wellington brass band went to
Winfield and with band there march
ed up the street and they called it a
| grand mid-winter parade"
Speaking of McKinleys inauguration
the Lawrence Journal says it would
put almost any man in bed to inspect
two new dresses every day.
A Topeka man is providing for the
education of his little daughter by
making monthly investments in q
building and loan association.
A creamery meeting was held at
| Kingman last week and the sentiment
of the people seem to favor the estab'
lishment of Swimming station.
The Themian club of Newton, COM
posed of women, intends to agitate the
Identification of the city parks and en-
courage open air entertainments.
A regulation job among Kansas boys
is peddling hand-bills 1t is fact that
an honest little boy once peddled them
all one at time before he quit. He
died shortly after.
The rich uncle of a Cowley county
woman made a will. He didn't like the
woman's husband and in will he pro-
vided that if she died before him (the
uncle) his fortune was not to go to her.
| This womans husband died. The I'M
Gle took sick. So did the woman. 1t
was race with her to live longer than
her uncle Stimulants were given and
she held out nobly for her children
sake. At last they brought her word
that her uncle was dead. She blessed
her children and died.
"There goes horse wagon" yelled
Pratt man last week. Everybody
looked. 1t was a wagon drawn by
mules.
Newton has voted waterworks bonds.
Out of total registration of 1914, e2t
votes were cast, s77 for and AZ against
the proposition.
A Chanute young man has queered
himself with his girl. He accidentally
shot himself in the forehead, and the
ball was fiattened out like MCKEE
when it hit his skull. The girl dom
want a hard-headed man like that
Bob Wright of Dodge City once gave
$500 for the skin of white buffalo. II
now belongs to the State Agriculture
society. 1t is the only white skin of g
buffalo in existence, as this was the
ONLY white buffalo ever killed.
1t is now claimed by Ell Dorado thai