The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1898-05-13
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The ratio in the hutchinson grad
uating class is twenty-four girls tc
three boys.
Oakley has an idea that it will be
made the Union Pacific division point
this summer.
Constance Ingalls, says that there is
nothing in the report that she contem'
plates going to Cuba as nurse.
A travelling man who struck Pitts
burg and expressed sympathy for
Spain is now laid up for repairs.
1t will be largely brunette war
with Spaniards. A yellow fever mi
crobe can smell blonde ten miles.
War, politics and house cleaning all
in full blast. This is hard on the Kan
san who is inclined to be pacifico.
An Elk county man is in quandry.
He does not know whether to go south
and fight Spaniards or stay at home
and face the grand jury. This sounds
like joint trouble.
The first assessor to report in Neosho
county says that the valuation of prop
erty in the township in which he work
ed increased $4,000 over last year.
And there will be lots of others that
will beat this record.
In speaking of the death of prom
inent citizen a paper in western Kan
sas says that che was lawyer by pro-
fession, but never have we heard per-
son say that he had wronged them in
the least particular"
There are sixteen panels reserved in
the dome of the state capitol building
for portraits of distinguished sons of
the commonwealth. The Kansas vol
unteers should recall the fact every
time they line up for battle in Cuba.
Robert Reynolds, of Rice county,
fought the Mexicans fifty years ago
and, although he is 80 now, he would
like, he says, to take swipe at Spain.
The climate of Kansas has remarka-
bly, preserving influence on military
enthusiasm.
That was sad death which occurred
on train near Garnett few days ago.
Mrs. NJ. j. Newkirk, of Kinkman, was
being taken to the asylum at Osawato-
mic, in charge of the sheriff, and ac-
companied by her husband. The poor
woman and her husband were asleep,
his arm wrapped tenderly about her,
when the conductor passing through,
noticed that she was strangely white,
and on investigation it was found that
she was dead, passing from her nap to
the past sleep so quietly that no one
had noticed it.
The Ell Reno Supper Bell says: A
letter from Secretary Frazier, of the
Kansas, Oklahoma Central and South
western railway company, states that
the company has let the contract to
the Ohio construction company, of To-
Iedo, Ohio, for the first fifty miles OF
the road, reaching from Coffeyville,
Kan, to Pawnee, o. T., via Pawhuska.
Work is to commence at once and the
cars to be running by October 1. A.
C. Spring is now at Coffeyville attend
ing a meeting of the officers of the
company. Ell Reno is the objective
point of the road, and movement is
now on foot looking to the building of
the line between this city and Guthrie.
The money is on hand for 100 miles of
construction, and it is thought that
work will soon be in progress at both
ends of the line.
Irving will soon have creamery in
operation.
The Effingham band is in tune with
popular feeling. 1t is giving open ali
concerts, playing patriotic airs. There
is double advantage in this. 1t pleases
the people and then such music is easy
to play.
Kansas has three pensioners who
were disabled in peace. The cannon
owned by the Wichita battery did it
once at a grand army reunion, anc
twice at drill practice. The state pays
the pensions.
Holton has commenced preparation
for great Fourth of July celebration
There ought to be patriotism to burr
this year.
Three years ago Hamilton county
man shipped three jack rabbits to {
friend in Maine. They were placed OF
an island where they commenced t.
multiply as rapidly as on the plains
and r~w the Maine man is making
handsome thing out of his rabbit farm
And he had better confine them t.
that island, too, or they will sool
overrun the whole of New England.
Horton will soon have electric lights
Horton needs it. During the recen
convention there when a man was oil
fered bottle around the corner h
didn't know whether it contained jiI
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