The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1898-08-19


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The Red Cross is doing good work i'll
collections at Leavenworth.
According to the commissioner even
the pension list is growing in Kansas.
The railroad conductors at Herring
ton have perfected club organiza-
ton.
The capacity of the pcnitentiary at
Fort Leavenworth has been increased
lately.
The Ottawa fire department will go
to Omaha and exhibit their skill at
handling the hose.
There is a crowd of boys in every
town in Kansas who do nothing but
lay around pool halls and smoke cigar
cites.
A Cowley county man was smoking
a pipe the other day when it exploded.
A cartridge in the tobacco was the
cause.
The democratic voters of Sumner
county are called to meet at Caldwell
August "a, for the purpose of selecting
county ticket.
The Kansas soldier does not object
to fighting Spaniards. but he kicks
when he is put to digging trenches and
burying dead mules.
School district board 106, near Con-
way Springs, is composed entirely OF
old maids. Their first act was to Sc
lect man school teacher.
Lawrence will be thoroughly up-to-
date in everything. When the war is
ended the steam whistles will blow
and tell the people about it.
William Laidlow, who was slugged
at Hamilton few days ago, is said to
be a Spaniard, and has been frequent
ly whipped for that reason.
Bad boys there are at Pittsburg.
Lee Wiley, aged IA, had his eye shot
out the other day by niger fipper
in the hands of companion.
A sweet girl at the Kansas state uni
versity says it is perfectly lovely to
have a sweetheart for whom all the
other girls sigh like furnace.
Two teamsters got into trouble at
Pittsburg the other day and settled
their difference by firing heavy artil-
lery at each other from their wagons.
Kansas City Star is sending out
homing pigeons to its Kansas CORE
spondents, who return them to Kansas
City and make note of the speed they
attain in Kansas wind.
Atchison policemen may have been
Sinking their duty recently. The
mayor has decided to put in police tel
ephones and they are to report there
at certain times. This scheme will
also reduce the force.
The state board of equalization has
completed it's work of fixing the as
sessment of real and personal property
of the various counties of the state
The assessment in some counties is
raised, in some decreased, and in some
left the same as heretofore. Taken as
a whole the assessment of the entire
state is raised something over So, O0o,-
900.
Another swindler is working some
of the farmers of Harvey county. The
fellow hunts up family that may
have a sick member and quietly has
an interview with the head of the
household. The stranger says he is
physician from the railroad hospital
at Topeka and as work there is trifie
slow he will contract to cure the pa
tient The contract is drawn up but
the "doctor" of course needs small
fee to insure the fulfllment of the
contract on the part of the farmer.
The quacl1 sticks the dough in his
jeans and gets in his buggy and that
is the last that is seen of him.
Aside from the fact that the recent
heavy rains have materially impeded
the progress of threshing and market
ing of the wheat in Pawnee county,
another element has sprung up which
promises to cut a considerable figure
with the elevator people and grain
dealers. The farmers are not disposed
to sell their wheat at present quota
tions and are building granaries, stor-
ing, and will hold it until the price
advances. Very little wheat is being
marketed as compared with a year
ago. The farmers in western Kansas
raised and sold enough wheat last year
to pay their debts and put them in
good shape. This explains why so
little wheat is being marketed from
the western section of the state at the