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


at the Inauguration of Mckinley, sc
everything went off well.
The town of Howard is so musical
that the advertisers in the Courant
publish sheets of the newest music.
The drill in the gas well at lola is
hopelessly stuck and the engineer is
trying to holie hole out around it.
The cattle IN Stanton county-that
is some of them-are inducing pleas
ant dreams and death by eating loco.
Miss Hattie Smith of Atchison, has
signed two-year contract with An'
gustin DAILY, the theater man of New
York.
A Syracuse preacher delivered a SER
mon denouncing dancing but the club
had a very enjoyable party just the
same.
Kansas is making her usual mistake.
Although she is a close state the other
states are in Washington and will get
all the plums. '"..
Lewelling can not be removed from
the railroad commission by Governor
Leedy. The petitions against him will
have no effect
The heaviest SHOWS in Kansas this
year was in the southwest corner.
Snow fingered there until about the
10th of March.
Master Mechanic Hasbrouch of Dodge
City says that some locomotives arc
running still and doing good work ut
the age of 60 years.
Last Sunday near Douglas u large
flock of wild geese settled down on the
farm of Robert Snodgrass who got hia
gun and bagged two.
A Dickinson county man has fenced
in his fish with wire mesh. He con-
templated herding them, but the ex-
pense was too great.
Olathe young men are talking about
putting up trocha between them and
Ottawa, to keep the Ottawa boys away
from the Olathe girls.
The postmaster at Frederick, Rice
county, allowed women, whisky and
politics to get the best of him and his
successor is appointed.
Morrill, the other day disposed of the
bonds in that Lcavenworth hank which
a year ago made the Wichita people SO
mad when they thought of it.
Governor Leedy has begun war on
the joints at Topeka. This is very
good Topeka has never had real
good taste of prohibition birthstone.
If you will study Kansas society col
umns you will find world of differ
ence in the phrases. "Those present
were" and "The invited guests were"
The old saying "There is nothing
new under the SUM- is evidently one,
of which, Messrs. Primrose & West
have never heard; at least one would
be led to believe so by their untiring
and we may say, successful efforts to
produce novelties in the field of min
strelsy. Some years ago minstrel
manager, created quite sensation by
putting on the road company of for
ty members using in his advertise
ments the catch line 40 count EN- 40;
but this exploit sinks into significance
alongside the Primrose & Vests pres
emit venture. The organization which
they bring to the Crawford Grand,
Wichita, Mar. Goth, consists of gate
seventy people and Messrs. Primrose 6;
West say that they are not afraid to
have any one count 'e'::' either. The
company is composed of forty white
artists who will be seen to advantage
in all the best features Of cup to date"
minstrelsy and thirty of the BLACKLIST
of the black, singers, dancers and com
edians in an exposition of the true and
original type of southern negro.
The New York Tribune suggests that
those Kansas populists who are so anx
ious to do up eastern insurance compa-
MES might accomplish their object by
getting their lives insured in these
companies and then go off and die.
Wellington has q man who has been
Dragging about having but one hen
and yet he was receiving eight eggs
daily. But few days ago the neigh
bors shut their chickens up and since
that time this man has lost much con-
fidence in that hen. He does not now
receive so many eggs.
The game markets are said to be al
most glutted with wild ducks, mall
lards, teal and pintails. Old hunters
and men who handle game say they
never saw such fight of ducks in
February, and they are fat, plump and
pretty.
Do Kansas people enjoy reading the
travels of editors? Several editors are
now RECALLING their readers with &C