The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1898-12-09
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

P"AONA.
1t is reported that the two telephone
companies at Leavenworth will be con-
solidated.
The national government is doing
$4,000 worth of dental work in the
mouth of the Kaw.
Arkansas City will take precautions
against diphtheria. The malady has
not reached that town.
A good way to get in shape to give
thanks is to give some other person
cause for feeling thankful.
Farmers in northern Dickinson coun-
ty report the death of cattle as the re-
suit of eating frosted oats.
The great Collins trial is now in pro-
gress in Topeka. The first difficulty is
the usual one-securing jury.
In General Corbin's annual report he
speaks as though iG is the intention to
make Fort Riley of more Importance
than before.
1t is claimed that st. Marys ships
more cattle, hogs, sheep grain and
poultry than cny other town in Potta-
watomie county.
The first thing the next legislature
should do is to learn something about
the State Historical society and treat
it half way decent.
1t is not practicable to use stools at
the Kansas pie counter. The seekers
would crawl up the rounds and try to
wait on themselves.
At Topeka they say of man who
will not do anything until he is
bodied, that he will not whistle until
you furnish the quicker.
One dark cloud that always comes
with Christmas time is caused by the
man who spells it Xmas" And moth
Ing can be done about it.
The Osborne county man who ran
Independently for the legislature on
resubmisson platform spent $50 on his
compaign as shown by his sworn state
ment.
The State Historical society made
another call for more room recently.
Perhaps some attention will be paid to
this some day. 1t ought to have been
attended to long ago.
Kansans are generally having good
time this year. 1t is almost impossible
to pick up local paper printed any
where in this state that does not con-
tain notices of entertainments of some
kind.
Experiments in making vitrified
brick from the shale found at Cherry
vale have proven it to be exceptionally
good stuff; better even for the manu-
facture of brick than that found at
Coffeyville, from which such excellent
results are obtained.
A special dated, Guthrie, Nov s2nd,
says: A. c. Springs, vice president of
the Kansas, Oklahoma Central and
Southwestern railway, returned this
morning from meeting of the direc-
tors and officers of the road, held at
Coffeyville, Kan. Mr.. Springs says
the road is now graded from Caney,
Kan, more than fifty miles in this
direction, and that at the meeting,
bridge material and steel were bought
to complete the road not only that far,
but seventy-five miles more, which
will take it to the crossing of the Ar
kansas river.
considerable competition exists be-
tween Wiley o. Cox, and the Missouri,
Kansas and Texas Trust Company,
both of Kansas City, over the collec-
ton of more than four million dollars
due the Cherokee Indians from the
government, with indications favora-
BILE to Cox. The Indians think the
Missouri, Kansas and Texas Trust
company and the Missouri, Kansas and
Texas railroad are identical and, as
the latter expect to get large slice of
the Cherokee lands, the Indians are
inclined to be inclined to the trust
company's proposition.
Lin White, drug salesman who
makes northwest Kansas, didn't let the
recent storm beat him out of any or
ders, as he made his territory just the
same while the railroads were tied up.
On one day he drove from Down to Os-
borne and back, passing two dead Mis-
souri, Pacific engines ON the way. The
town losfers who only see the travel
ing men while they are hanging out in
hotel offices and smoking ten cent CT
gars frequently think that the life of
these fellows is one uninterrupted
round Of pleasure and gayety, but
they have their full share of the grief
of the world.
Gillet, the bankrupt cattle king, has
sailed for Spain. That country is
busted and Gillet will naturally feel
ut home.