The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1898-12-30

]. w. Amis, now assistant state sup
crintendent, has purchased half in
terest in hardware store at Smitl
Center, and will make that place hi
home after his duties in the stat,
house are ct an end.
A Topeka laborer WHO has lately
become a christian returned SEQ Il
the treasurer of the Santa Fe railway
company one day last week. Tit
man said that one time he bought {
scalpers ticket from Chicago over the
Santa Fe and that since becoming {
christian his conscience had hurt him
because he thought he had defraudet
the company and he could not rest till
he had returned the full price of II reg
ular ticket with the interest There
was something wrong with that mans
conscience.
| Major Harvey seems to have won 9
warm place for himself in the hearts
of the soldier boys who were in his
command. All of them speak we'll OF
him, as they did in their letters, when
| writing home. He is sold to have been
most considerable of his men, and ever
thoughtful of their comfort. AleS
Jones, a Delphos printer, is one young
fellow who will always think kindly
of the major. On one of the marches
while in the east Jones was sick, and
noticing his condition, Major Harvey
took charge Of his musket and carried
it all day for the worn-out private.
Probate Judge Dolman, of Shawnee
county, has drafted a bill which he
says will do away with about half OF
the insanity verdicts. He said: about
half of the people who are adjudged
insane are not really insane. They
are INDECENT and perhaps half-witted
and the place for them is in the poor
house and not at the asylum. / think
it is fair to say that not more than halt
the PEOPLE who are sent to the asylum
are ct subjects for that institution.
my plan is to make the verdict OF
the jury in an insanity inquisition to
hinge upon the question of whether
the person will derive any benefit from
being sent to the asylum. If this is
done it will not be necessary to en-.
large our asylums."
Secretary Coburn has issued card
bearing in condensed form state
ment of Kansas farm products and
values for 1898, gotten up in his usual
tasty and clever manner. The artistic
feature of the card is an engraving OF
an ear of Indian corn lying atop of
head of Kaffir. Nothing is more COM
mon in Kansas than the ordinary ear
of corn, yet there are innumerable
residents of the state who would not
recognize Kaffir corn if they were to
meet a load on the way to market, and
many others will doubtless be sur
prised to learn that within the past
four years the product of Kaffir corn
and other sorghums in Kansas has
amounted to 10,050,O0O tons, which,
into dollars and cents,
brought to the producers of this state
s29, 900, 900.
Not very many people would care to
run the risk of loading shells by lamp
light, but Phillips county farmer not
only took this risk but smoked pipe
1T the same time. After the smoke of
The explosion had cleared away the
mother, who was in another part of
the house. found the careless man and
two three year-old children piled up in
-he room in heap, and the place look
ng as though it had been wrecked by
4 cyclone. The little children were
unable to see and it is feared that they
never will again. The father was
burned and his head injured by coming
n contact with the ceiling of the |
-OOli Nllch llC WIN up ~ 10 NouOCI-
Jul that the injuries of the three are
1ot of a more severe nature. 1t will
be long day before that father ceases
% regret this most careless action.
Bishop Millspaugh, of the Episcopal
church, took the stand in the Collins
case and made a defense for young
John Collins.
The board of charities last week let |
5he contracts for supplying the state
Institutions for the next six months
The total value of the contracts made
IS nearly $4,000.
The Presbyterian ladies of Horton
nave no kick coming as regards pros
oerity. They cleaned up two hundred
dollars as the result of three days
show
Out in western Kansas there are |
large cribs of corn along
The railways; cribs so big and fat and
looking that one feels like
taking off his hat and making them a
bow.
All the Kansas nanarc ora talx;Do, a |