The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1898-03-25

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March 20 is the day that the churche
have been requested to observe as ten
perance day.
Dates for campaign meetings hav
commenced to appear in the state pa
pers,
An Atchison county man sold hi
12S-acre farm two miles south of FL
tingham last week for $1,000.
Many of the Kansas farmers hav
their osts in the ground and are get
ting the ground i'll condition to plan
corn.
The creamery men of the state ar,
organizing a mutual fire insurance
company. This will afford much cheap
er insurance than is now obtainabl,
for this class of risks.
The Kansas Midland. running from
Ellsworth to Wichita, has been fore
closed on and will be sold by order OF
the Federal court. 1t is 104 miles long
and the claim is 81, 100000.
Secretary Gill of the State Board of
Health is actively pushing the fight
against unlicensed persons who prac-
tice medicine. He says that every
quack should be driven out of the
State.
If we are to have war the fellows
who are so loud in their efforts to be
heard as to their desire to fight will
not be ones who will be of the most
value. The fighters are those who are
saying little just now.
Superintendent Stryller has discov-
cred decision of the supreme court
which says that school district officers
have no right to purchase charts, maps,
globes and such things without vote
Of the people. He has called the atten-
ton of the school officers to this deci-
sion.
The assessors of Reno and Sedgwick
are collecting statistics to be
used in the fight against the irrigators
1T the headwaters of the Arkansas riv-
II, who are using all of the water, and
ire thereby damaging the farmers of
hose counties by lessening the rain
all. The figures are being compiled
~ order of the county commissioners.
Secretary Coburn is making an effort
o get Kansas congressman to agree
o vote for measure giving $4,000
or a corn display at the Paris exposi-
ion. Senators Baker and Harris and
Curtis, Simpson and
iidgely have already agreed and the
thers have not been heard from. A
corn exhibit at Paris would |
pen the eyes of Europe to its value as
food product and benefit the corn
aisers thereby.
The County Commissioners of Reno
ounty have instructed the assessors
0 ascertain whether the people favor
he contribution of money to fight the
irrigators who are taking all
f the water from the Arkansas river.
he Hutchinson city council has decid-
i to let the matter rest, believing
nat the development of the country
p the river is of more than enough
alue to that city to compensate for
lie loss by the shortage of water.
David Weavers the young man who
stood off his family and
lie neighbors with Winchester last
eek, and who has been in Jail in
arvey county since, having been cap
lred by sheriffs possee, was on
arch 16 bound over to the district
,urt for trial on May term, his bond
Sed at 81, 900, which not being able
give, was confined in jail again.
he idea that he is insane is secuted
' the family and also by the neigh
)rs, who claim that he is nothing but
bad man, safer behind the bars than
lywhere else. Assault with intent to
III is the charge upon which he will
: tried.
Charley Gable, the boss butter max
of the Jensen creamery at Osborne,
ade an exceptionally good record on
litter exhibited at the recent butter
low in Topeka, and as a result the
eamery is now in daily receipt of
tiers from eastern firms who wish to
lrdle its output.
The only safe way for woman to
II a chicken is to wiring its neck. In
ying to decapitate a chicken with
ltchet a Harvey county woman miss
the bird and cut off the thumb Of
n left hand.
Solomon Smith, a hale old gentleman
Burr Oak, who served his time in
lie Mexican and Civil wars, is ready tc
Hist to fight Spain, despite his n
ears. All he asks is that the govern.
ent have the hard tack soaked so he