The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1898-05-06

Joseph Puccinalh, an Italian garden
err living near Atchison, is very anxious
to help whip the dons and has joined
the militia.
Letters from Klondike in the home
papers will begin to take back seat
now, and those from the field of battle
will have their inning.
A lot of Kansas soldiers when they
first level their guns are going to
SILVER with the sudden realization
that Spaniards are human beings.
The oldest inhabitant of Sabetha re-
members hearing Jim Lane make
speeches from cart on the streets of
Atchison during border ruflian days.
Severance sports run up against
couple of crap shooters from st. Joe
few days ago and as result the per
capiter of the town has been sadly cut
down.
1t isn't so much the amount of land
a man has as the manner in which it
is worked. Frank Lewis, an Osborne
county farmer, during the past year
marketed $500 worth of stock and pro-
duce off of 50-acre farm. Next year
he will sell produce off of 10o-acre
farm.
Conner Davis, whose Judgment in
such matters is very good, says: 1.-The
fellow who will blow himself for $l2
in cash to get the prize at voting
contest for his girl will also leave her
home at night after he has married
her while he blows in his money to
break a slot machine"
Kid Wilson, the hot sport of Council
Grove, goes to Chicago, where he will |
go up against Solly Smith, the cham
pion featherweight of the world. If
Kid wins he gets $1,000 and the cham |
pionship; if it is a draw he gets $500. |
and if the other fellow comes out on |
top Kid will get 81 200 to bring him
back to Kansas. Lots of men who |
can't fight at all would be willing to
be whipped for that sum.
A citizen of Chase Indignantly denies
the report sent from that town to the
effect that it has two joints, two or
three gambling dens and five or six
boot-leggers. He says that nine-tenths
of the citizens of that town are con-
sistent Christians and church mem
bers, and that while there may be
boot-legger or one joint in town the
deal is worked so slyly that it is i'm
possible for anyone to get onto them.
The Kansas City Journal ridicules the
work of the Hutchinson Reformatory
and cites an alleged case where two
boys from Reno county were released,
having been reformed, and, after be-
ing expelled from their school, they
burned the building. The facts are
that no boys from Reno county were
in the reformatory at all and the only
possible foundation for the story is
that two Bourbon county boys have
gone to the institution because they
burned the school house in their neigh
borhood after being expelled from
school. Neither boy had been in re-
formatory before.
1t is so easy to be at least half way
decent that the manner in which some ;
people deliberately set out to pattern
after the Old Nick is really surprising.
Last week a young fellow was arrested ;
in Usage City for theft, and on search {
ing him a number of purloined articles S
were found on his person, aside from S
a sum of money. He will probably get |
into the reform school, which will be S
no new experience for him, as he has q
been out but eight months, after serv- t
ing term of five years, for stealing a t
horse and buggy. He had the distine- I
ton of being the youngest horse thief I
in Kansas and is naturally bad case. '
School patrons should remember
that school books cannot be exchange I
ed under the new law after one year /
after the selection of the new books.
This time expires in May and June. i
Hoxie is to have band. Considera- X
ole fun is made of bands, but they are !
Ill right when not on the bum. Tope- G
"a, Beloit, Salina, Winfield Girard, b
md several other towns in the state a
nave good, number one bands, and it F
s safe to say that none of these towns /
would feel just right deprived of their l
band. /
Beloit claims more miles of good flag
stone walk than any other town of her v
size in the state, and can distance I
many larger places. Miles of sidewalk,
mind you, not blocks. /
Eighteen families of Germans in one j
will leave Pennsylvania /
;oon to make their home in Kansas. i