The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-03-19
KANSAS ITEMS OF ana AMEsT.

Inc Kansas legislature WIZ eooi
make public manifesto showing what
the legislature has done.
Fred Vandegrift holds there are five
keasons in Kansas; Summer, Autumn,
Winter March and Spring.
The only place in Kansas where the
market price of corn is 81 a bushel is
at the Kansas City stock yards.
OF the 1856 car loads of stuff handled
by the Missouri Pacific out of Sterling
during the month of February, % cars
were of corn.
Two hundred and sixty-five Harper
county people have petitioned for the
removal of Governor Lewelling from
the railroad commission.
The farmers of western Kansas are
sowing oats and declare the ground to
be IN better condition for seeking than
they have ever seen it before.
If Kearney, Stanton and Morton
counties are to be consolidated, the
johnson City Journal suggests that
johnson City should be the county
seat.
Little Jakey Dix of Hutchinson the
other night drank half pint of lkero-
sene. The kerosene luckily was poor
quality and the doctor pulled him
through.
A Topeka man asking for divorce
from his wife states in his petition
that they were married in 1896 and
have two children, the eldest being 10
years old.
An Arkansas City man who has been
for years an Indian trader has just
moved to Montana next to the Cana
dian line where he will trade among
the Blaclifeet.
1t is pointed out by Kansas paper
that years ago March was moment
Gus date in Mckinley mind simply be-
cause it marked Fourth of July just
four months away.
The hole of the gas company at lola
turned aside and the drill was lost in
the well. All efforts to recover it
proved fruitless and a new well has
been started five feet away from the
abandoned one
Two hundred and seyenty-five men
worked like beavers between and -
o'clock on the night of March LIST, in
and around Medford. They were lay
ing track on the Hutchinson e South
ern railroad. At II o'clock the first
engine on the road ran into Medford.
1t was great work for the company and
the completion of the road to Medford
at II o'clock saved to the company $10,-
600. The people of Medford had offer
ed a bonus of that sum to the H. & S.
people, provided an engine was run
into the town on or before March /.
A revival has been in progress for
several weeks in a town neighbor to
Abilene, and the young bachelor
preacher who is conducting it has en-
couraged his converts to believe that
the Lord makes himself known to them
in personal way. Last Wednesday
night a young woman arose to give in
her experience She related wonder
full vision which she had been favored
with and concluded by saying that it
was revealed to her that she was to
marry the young preacher. He says
he is already engaged to another young
woman, and that he fears it wasn't the
Lord the young convert-was hold ng
sennce with.
! A heavy thunder storm with great
fall of rain visited southern Kansas on
March 5th. The bottom lands in some
of the valleys are almost flooded. Farm
work will be retarded some on account
of the condition of the fields
Abilene young men have been in the
habit of letting the girls go the dances
without male escorts. The girls form
ed a union and struck, with the result
that at the last club dance the entire
attendance was seven men and no Ia
dies. The men are now trying to arbi
trate.
The company playing Marriage is a
Failure" got as far as Lawrence, and
could not escape with its baggage
The company was a failure whether
marriage is or not
An Atchison man who is on his way
to the poor house stopped long enough
this morning to say that owning a
buggy and a typewriter were what
sent him there. They were both con-
stantly out of repair, and ate up all
the money his horse left. He says that
an extravagant wife is not as costly as
a buggy and typewriter.
A lot of fellows lost their money the
other day in Jewell county on the old
Joke that a horse cannot drag a bag of
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