The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1898-01-07


thank you.
The Santa Fe's round house ut Ar
lsonsas City will be enlarged from ten
stalls to twenty-five
A Saline county man says he wishes
ne were camel. A camel can drink
enough at one time to last him seven
days
A young Cowley county man who is
good poker player, at one time held
enough diamond shirt studs to start a
jewelry store.
A man was arrested in Galcna re-
Gently for merely adding to the circu'
lating medium, an unlimited amount of
counterfeit money.
A Kansas jointist has been arrested
for stealing coffee. Perhaps the poor
man wanted something to drink that
was not adulterated.
Some Kansas papers are worrying
oyer the charge that Christmas is Sim
ply a descendant of the old Roman
Saturnalia. But no one need drink
egg-nogg on Christmas unless he wants
to.
10. Ady, now IN Colorado, to the
charge that he is broken in pocket and
health, replies spiritedly that his
health may not be free of llnot-holes,
but the constitution of his pocket book
is that of a grass-fed OK.
Colonel Holsington, special agent
of the government and representing
the land department, spent several
days last week making an appraise-
ment of 800 acres of land belonging
to the Fort Dodge military reservation,
and lying north of the Soldiers home.
This land is to be sold in 40 acre tracts
at not less than 81 % an acre. The
land will be sold at public SALE The
land near Wright station is appraised
at So. so an acre; and it rund at 81 and
S1.:5 an acre.
Evaline Tyndall, the 20 year old
of the Rev. o. L. Tyndall OF
Douglass county, died last week, after
an illness of about two weeks. Her
ailment is said to have been kidney
trouble and malarial fever She was
treated by letter and telegram from
Christian Science institute conducted |
by DIR. bowls of Chicago, of whose
teaching the Rev. Tyndall had become
W advocate since trip there last
summer, and no physician was regu-
arly called in during the girls sick
less.
Prof. w. Z. Covert has introduced a
lew industry in southwest Kansas.
lie has secured five full blood regis
cred Belgian rabbits and will make it
business to raise rabbits of the above
,ind to sell to breeders and the meat
The Belgian rabbit is fawn
olor, weighs from to u pounds, and
las feet as large as wild cat. 1t is
lighter, too, being able TO lick any do
nestle cat. 1t kicks like mule with
is hind feet. The rabbit is considered
he equal of quail for table uses and
uperior to the flesh of any other ami
1al. Il readily sells on the Kansas
lily and Denver markets at from 20 to
5 cents per pound. These animals
reed from four to five times year.
Mrs. Phoebe Bare, superintendent of
he industrial school for girls at Be
Dit, proposes to make an example OF
eople who aid girl inmates of that in
titution to escape. A few weeks ago
couple of girls escaped, and it was
ound that they had been aided in get
ing away by a couple of young men
rom Cloud county. The girls were
fterward recaptured and taken back
Irs. Bare has caused warrants to be
sued for the arrest Of the young men,
nd they viii be taken into custody
She has received an OPP
lion from the attorney general that
re girls can be used as witnesses in
lie case. Attorney General Boyle has
romsed TO assist in the prosecution.
All the reports are in and show that
his year in the whole state of Kansas
OF more than three Santa Clauses got
urned.
Kansas has just one bad habit left
lie state is saying that we must have
ood crops next year. Kansas will be
i right even with failure.
The RELOCATION of the human stom. ,
,h conclusively proves that talking
as not subsidiary, but the prime {
motion of the mouth, a thing that
ansas preceded science in discover. :,
g. t
James Fl. Pickering of Plevna has !
lken out license to marry Myrtle
odd of the same town. Miss Todd il l
ut Is years of age. ,
A Nortonvile man who is hunting