The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-02-26
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.


ried for year buys his wife valentine.
Pneumonia in Oklahoma last week
has been doing its very worst. Nearly
all of the weekly papers contain no
tice of death from the cause.
Hodgeman county has sensation.
An apparition " -iich looks like man
is hanging to post, but no one has
had the nerve yet to get near enough
to tell whether it is fake or the real
thing.
DIR. II. A. Dykes. who was secretary
of the state board of health during
dwellings administration, has been
appointed on the board of medical ex-
aminers of Tennessee, where he went
to live in 1895.
The shipments of live stock from
Concordia this year are the largest
known in that section for years. The
shipments have been very extensive
over the Missouri Pacific and they are
short cars to supply the demand.
Col. A. M. Coffee, after whom Coffey
county was named, lives in Missouri
and has just passed his 93d year. He
was member of the Missouri legisla-
ture in 1851 aud of the Kansas legisla-
ture in 1855.
A Kansas short grass editor says:
"There is only one way to make liv-
ing at the newspaper business in wes-
tern Kansas, and that is for the editor
to do his own work; work day and
night; live on jack rabbit soup, and
run the rabbits down himself"
A. w. Betchol, farmer who lives s
miles southeast of Topeka, drove his
horse home Thursday evening hitched
to new buggy He tied it in front of
his house and went into the house.
Coming out soon afterward he saw the
horse break its hitch rein and run to-
wards Topeka. He procured horse
and buggy and followud but has been
unable to find the animal or the bug
gy.
A Nemaha county man recently
lost twelve nice young hogs before he
discovered what was taking the hogs
off. He had cut hole in the ice in his
pond about twenty feet from the edge
to give his hogs water. His shoats be-
gan to disappear, and the mystery was
not cleared away until one day he saw
one in endeavoring to drink out of the
hole plunge in and disappear under
the ice. When the ice melted he fished
twelve nice pigs out of the pond.
An editor over in the jack-rabbit belt
is fugitive from the righteous wrath
of beautiful young lady of his town.
and is in an adjoining town endeavor-
ing to square himself by mail. In
writing a notice of wheel ride taken
by the young lady he said ''she lost
her path and wandered around in the
woods till dark" He admits that his
pen is a little "straggly," and that
there is little similarity between the
words path and pants but no ar
gument can convince him that the
printer didn't do it purposely.
A Paola patriot has figured it out
that the cause of the hare times is
neither the tariff nor the money king.
He says: "There are many little things
that help to make times hard and pro-
ducts low. The Worlds Fair people in
this vicinity mortgaged their homes to
90 to Chicago. The bicycle craze, in
temperance and the strikes are impor-
tant factors. Laboring men in cities
spend money for beer that should go
for bread, and strike for higher wages
than the times will warrant"
The people of Englewood who recent
ly saw an air ship sail over the city are
reputable citizens. The jointists of
Englewood also advertise openly in the
papers and competition has brought
the grade of whisky away above that
of other Kansas towns.
Waiter Thompson, an Usage county
farmer, who went there twelve years
ago, bought farm on time and agreed
to pay So, GOO when he got able, drove
into Burlingame last week and paid off
the last dollar of debt and has a couple
of thousand bushels of corn left over.
The G. A. r. post at Pratt has raised
six dollars as contribution to the An
Jacksonville prison scheme. The scheme
is to repair the prison and preserve it
always.
Three tramps broke into a store at
Fredonia last week. They took the
goods stolen from the store to Bene-
dict, intending to ship them to Topeka.
An officer attempted to arrest them
when fight ensued. One tramp had
his head shot off and another one was
killed The third escaped. The goods
were captured.
The sheriff at Ashland issues a warn