The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1898-01-21


tional money order Office
The State University has enrolled
100 students more than last year.
Attorney General McKenna favors
dividing Kansas into two federal judi
cial districts.
So far this season the ice men have
have been disappointed, but they en-
terrain hopes of yet reaplng their har-
vest
The Lawrence girls who have re
solved not to go with young men who
drink beer are preparing for lone
some time.
A Lincoln county young man vino
warrants his constitution to withstand
all kinds of hardships and exposure is
advertising for some one go furnish the
financial backing fo- Klondike expo
dition.
Many eastern people are coming to
Kansas to buy real estate and locate,
but as the average Kansan is satisfied
with his lot, the easterner learns that
Kansas real estate commands n fancy
price.
Considerable snow is reported in the
western and northern part of the state.
Drifts are interfering and blocking the
railways in many places Wheat is
looking at its best and the enow is just
what was needed.
1t is considered likely that a new
bishop will be appointed for the Con-
cordia diocese. Bishop Hennessey is
overworlled as are many of the priests
under the present cement of af-
fairs and he has gone to st. Louis to
consult with the arch-deacon concern
ing a change Father Maurer of Sa-
lima and Father Cunningham of Leav-
worth are the two prominent candi-
dates for the appointment.
The Farmers State bank and the
Bank of Arkansas City have been
merged into one strong financial insti-
tuition. The Farmers State bank owns
it's building, the handsomest banking
office in the state, where the business
will be carried on. The new bank has
a capital of $4,000, fully paid up, and
with this addition to its business will
have upwards of $125,OOO in deposits,
thus placing it among the strongest
financial institutions of southern Kan
sas.
Ex-State Senator and exMember of
the State Board of Charities Frank Nj.
Lockard of Norton county, has sue
ceeded in getting large number OF
Sixth district statesmen to put their
pictures in the forthcoming publica-
ton, prominent Men of Kansas" for
which he has the agency in the Sixth
district. Mr.. Lockard only took the
agency of this book to travel and rest
up for while before he assumes the
duties of postmaster Of Norton. which
appointment is looked for early in the
spring months.
The Parsons Eclipse says: One of
the smoothest, most pleasant hammered
young women who ever struck the
sou th-west, has just finished cam
paign in Wichita, Parsons, Pittsburg
and TT. Scott She has books to sell,
and she sells lots of them. She is
young thing, pretty of face and form
and has magnificent eyes. She can
also talk, and if talking fails to eXtort
tile desired order, she has been known
to throw in a kiss, which always
brings forth the cash. When she
makes sale the subscriber must pay
81 cash. and it is estimated that she
took away from Joplin over 5000 in
cash subscriptions and borrowed mon
ey. From one young man she got $40;
from another SIS: and from third $40
This money she borrowed to send to
her sick sister, and would pay it back
in day or two At Pittsburg she is
said to have taken in over $500.
The average Kansas farmer has
plenty of good shelter for his stock
this season and there will be no suffer
ing among the dumb animals.
F. NJ. Baker. the Atchison county
grain man, whose judgement is as good
or better than any one in the business,
reports that in the Central Branch ter
ritory wheat is in better condition than
ever before in the history of the coun-
try, and that more was sown last fall
than ever before He also says that rs
per cent OF the corn raised last year in
western Kansas is still in the country
Since the Arkansas was declared by
the supreme court to be navigable
stream, someone has turned little
water into the upper end and the river
bed is getting right damp.
R. G. Tonl1in, a real estate dealer Of
Dickinson county, has a record of sell