The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1898-07-08
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

New mail cranes are being placed at
small stations along the Santa Fe rail
road.
Dog day season has almost arrived
and the small boy with sores on his
back has to keep out of water with
blue scum.
The Winfield Courier says its rather
dangerous to live in war times as Cow
ley county has already had to feed
three buns in one week.
Two Topeka newspaper men did the
right thing this week. They went out
into the short grass country and mar
ried pair of rosy-cheeked girls.
Three young ladies are after the re-
publican nomination for county super
intendent in Chautauqua county. This
may account for the scarcity of teach
ers in that direction.
The Forepaugh and Sells show which
does not expect to be in western Kan
sas for six weeks or perhaps couple
of months, is already advertising in
the newspapers out there.
Charles Campbell, one of Doniphan
county's wealthiest farmers, was work
ing in the harvest field when overcome
10y the heat. He walked to the house
and died in five minutes.
Girard has six snake manufacturing
institutions. This notice is not in
tended for dime museum or menagerie
managers. 1t is the way the local
newspaper refers to the town joints.
All the county conventions should
be held as early as possible this year
so that the nomination papers may be
fled in order to get the proper blanks
10 the soldiers who are at the front in
time to vote.
The negro battalions at Topeka and
Lawrence have been completed. The
captain elected by the Topeka COM
pany can barely write The captain
selected by the Lawrence company is
highly educated.
Newspaper men can be vicious. Col
Inns attorneys at Topeka will not per-
init reporters to see him and the re-
&c Hn11inc
wants to make a confession. The
worst place on earth to try case is in
the newspapers.
Attorney General Boyle thinks the
next Missouri legislature will pass a
bill regulating the removed stock
yards for the benefit of Kansas far
mers. Yes, Missouri will! Missouri
has done nothing but rob Kansas for
the last forty years.
At Camp Alger, Washington, Kansas
boys are being treated as so many
runts. Other states and cities send
their troops money and delicacies. The
Kansas boys have to live on the regu-
lar army fare. They will in the end
make the best soldiers.
At Concordia the other day couple
aged IS and Is and cauple aged 81
and CT stood up together and had the
harness buckled on. On the same day
couple aged II and 16 were married
in Mcpherson county. The mother of
the bride sent letter of consent to the
probate judge in which she said she
believed in early marriages as "the
only way to stop lot of counting fool
ishness"
The Kansas boys at Tampa are Civ
ing their friends at home surprise in
unique stationary. One kind of letter
paper has the picture of United
States soldier standing beneath two
crossed flags, one an American, the
other Cuban. Beneath the soldiers
gun, on the ground, is the flag of Spain,
and a ship in the background. Anoth-
err has wreath of blue smoke, out of
which stands upright waving flag.
Across the smoke is printed the COM
pany, and twenty-frst Kansas volun-
teers, in red letters.
William Best, residing near Admire,
in Lyon county, met a horrible death
June 20. He was narrowing when a
man riding bicycle came along the
road. The horses were frightened at
the wheel so badly that they ran
away. At the first lunge Best was
caught under the harrow and dragged
until he was dead. Four harrow teeth
stuck in his head and his body was
terribly mutilated. He was dead be-
fore the horses could be stopped. The
teeth stuck into his head at least three
inches and the brain was oozing from
the wounds when he was picked up.
Best was a member of the old pioneer
families and was well known.
1t now turns out that Captain Cap
ron was born and raised in Shawnee
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