The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1898-04-29

Territorial Normal building at Ava,
Okla.
Paul Hudson is the name of a bari
tone singer belonging to company
now touring Kansas.
There is no question now that war
has bearing effect on wheat. War
scares have bull effect.
Topeka captured the populist state
convention. 1t will be held June 18th
after the republican convention.
Coburn, in his new book on bovines,
favors currying the COW. There isn't
a man IN Kansas who curries his COW.
A Methodist preacher who has been
assigned to the church at Clyde will
not accept. He will open furniture
store at Beloit.
The commencement orator who wants
to get the popular shout this spring
will wave the starry banner and rip
the Spaniards,
A cyclist at Salina the other day
while wheeling on a sidewalk ran over
a child, and since then no wheelmeD
are allowed on the sidewalk.
About four hundred Kansas papers,
more or less, convey to their readers
the regular annual notice that the ''po-
litical pot is beginning to boil"
One of the things we cannot under
stand at this moment is the complete
eclipse of Ona Melton, the Kansas lad
who recently returned from Cuba.
Wichita is a peculiar town. The eoun-
ty has had to bid in number of town
lots at tax sales. Last year it requir-
ed an effort to keep people from NOV
ing houses off of them. This year new
trouble is being made. The people
are hauling off the lots for grading
purposes.
Harper county was organized in 1873
ON a bogus petition gotten up by some
swindlers who Immediately issued $40,
900 in bonds which they sold and then
pocketed the proceeds. This occurred
three years before there was perma-
nent settler in the county. This story
is told by the Anthony Bulletin.
With the exception of the days of
the boom Kansas papers never con-
tanned so many notices of improve
ments being made as are now noted at
the present time, and in striking con-
trast to the conditions which prevailed
during the boom era, the improvements
now being made are the result of Il
natural healthy growth.
Superintendent Stryker, on behalf of
the committee on education appointed
by the Kansas Omaha commission, is
sending out a circular letter to county
asking them to make
arrangements for the preparation of
material for the educational exhibit at
the Omaha Exposition. The letter
states that as Kansas ranks second to
no state in educational matters, it is
expected that the exhibit will be the
equal of any educational exhibit enter
ed at the exposition.
A Clay county man has fitted a third
wheel to his bicycle in such shape
that he can run it on railroad track
after the manner of track bicycle
used by linemen and roadmasters fire.
quently. Several years ago Ed Staley
of the Missouri Pacific road made
machine. Staley was operator
at Downs. and his wife ran the station
at Bloomington, about eighteen milei
up the road. The trains did not run
to suit Staley in making visits to his
wife and he constructed the machine.
He was mechanical genius, and made
every part of the the machine himself.
He made frequent trips on his spidery
looking wheel which worked well, and
there was very long and heavy
grade to overcome going up the Solo
mon divide, too.
A close study of the situation at Atch-
ison leads the Globe there to announce
that the new woman. unlike the arti-
Gle of 81, does not urge her husband to
go to war.
Six car loads of fruit trees were de-
livered at Troy last week. They are
mostly apple trees. Each car load rep
resents 10000 trees. Many orchards
are being planted in the vicinity of
Troy. Many of the farmers are plant
ing 500 to 1000 trees. Doniphan is
keeping pace in being one of the fore
most fruit counties in Kansas.
The Oldest inhabitant of Sabetha re-
members hearing Jim Lane make
speeches from a cart on the streets of
Atchison during border ruffian days.
Chancellor f. II. Snow has been in
vited to make the principal after din
ner speech at the annual banquet Civ
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