The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1898-06-03


h spection department has not paid ex'
II penses.
Tho warden of the Kansas peniten'
u tiary will soon refuse to accept any
more prisoners from Oklahoma. He
says there is no money in it for Kan
sas.
In the short grass country few days
ago Rev. Mr.. Nessley decided to make
his victory over satan short, sharp and
decisive by saying to his audience, 'it
will rain every day in heaven" -.
Major Harvey acknowledgement OF
Kansas, writes from Falls Church that
all the boys in the twenty second are
we'll. At Parkersburg an old man
with squirrel rifle stood at present
arms" while the train bearing the
Kansas volunteers passed him.
The wheat acreage of Mitchell coun-
ty this year is a little over $4,000 acres.
This is an increase of over so per cent
over last year. And every acre of it
promises the best yield ever known,
and this is why the Mitchell county
people are proud.
Frank H. Logan, of Norton county,
who wants to be state superintendent,
has lived in the Northwest twelve
years teaching and experimenting
schools He has served as county SUI
perintendent of Norton county and is
now teaching at Logan.
Coffeyville is arranging for Chau-
tauqua assembly to be held June ~ to
July g. A very promising array of tai
ent has been secured for the occasion
embracing such names as DR.. Quayle,
Rev. Sam Jones, DIR. Robt. Mcintyre,
Eli Perkins and Henry Watterson. 1t
is expected that others will be secured
but the list already given promises a
most entertaining assembly.
The shell game, which is as old as
the hills, and which any person with
lick of sense ought to steer clear of, is
being worked to FRAGILE by gang of
crooks who are travelling with a show
in the short grass district. The course
of the show is marked by trail of
suckers all along the line. A man who
bites at the shell game is not deserving
of any sympathy, no matter how large
a sum he loses.
A gang of falklrs is at work in Nema-
ha county soliciting orders for fence
machine The order reads all right,
but after it has been signed the CRATER
tears off one end of it, and the portion
left reads like the most approved form
of promissory note. Kansas farmers
are long suffering, or they would make
such an example of some of these fell
lows that none of their brethren
would ever dare to come within the
borders of the state.
James Conway has been pardoned
from the penitentiary. He was sent up
in 1895 for six years for burglary. Some
time ago one of the elevators in the
penitentiary coal mine got caught in
the shaft. 1t was necessary for some
one to climb up fully 200 feet from be-
low and release the catch. Of large
number of convicts, Conway was the
only one who volunteered to do this,
and his pardon is given him as a re-
ward for success in his undertaking.
If Uncle Sam wants to get some more
men in Kansas he had better be open
ing his recruiting offices at once. If
he delays doing so two weeks longer
the farmer will enter into competition
with him and make him hump when
it comes to offering pay for services.
The farmer will need harvest hands
more than Uncle Sam will need sol
diers, and will offer young men of am
bition greater inducements to enlist in
his cause.
The members of the state board of
health of Illinois were in Lawrence on
May 27th for the purpose of inspecting
the course of study in the preparatory
years work done in medicine at the
Kansas university. This is done in ac-
cordance with the action of the board
of regents at its last meeting in order
to give the medicine school work done
at Kansas university official standing,
so that graduates can get credit for it
at other institutions or places where
they wish to pass examinations.
County Superintendent Dayhoff is
authority for the statement that there
will be a dearth of teachers in Reno
county this year. There are several
causes for this scarcity, the main one
being the raising of the standard and
the harder examinations. Another
reason is that several of the male
teachers enlisted with the Twenty-frst
Kansas regiment and of course will |