The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1898-09-09
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.


The telephone company is making
rapid progress in connecting two new
lines from Wichita to Arkansas City.
James Young, the quartermaster al
Frisco, a volunteer from Kansas, who
was convicted of dishonesty, will get
year in the federal prison.
Jerry Simpson said at Denver that
the report circulated that Kansans
were using steam mortgage cancellers
was just little exaggerated.
A tramp in eastern Kansas became
enraged because a woman refused him
something to eat. Whereupon he pull
cd out roll of about $500 and showed
her.
There are swindlers in all classes OF
people. A farm hand named Ben New
is not altogether old. He swindled
lot of farmers in Sumner county and
skipped.
The Santa Fe offers to give free
transportation to the Hawaiian queen
who will come from Frisco to reign as
queen as Topeka carnival.
A Chicago sculptor has been award-
ed the contract to make the bust OF
Governor John A. Martin. The statue
will be unveiled at Atchison.
The Journal says that if every Kan
sas town sent as many visitors to Colo
RADIO as Coffeyville did this summer,
the hotels out there would all need an
nexes.
1t has been custom in Jewell ccun-
ty to go to Burr Oak for county super
intendents. This office has been filled
four or five times by parties from that
town.
Rev. II. D. Fisher is conducting re-
rivals in Nortonvllle, in connection
with exploiting the fact that he was
once in the Quantrell raid, and got
rolled out in "a carpet.
If this meets the eye of any retired
Banker or Merchant, or any other bus
mess man who desires a good position
in a good business, write Walker &
Luling, No. 200 New England Bldg,
Kansas City, Missouri.
Four bottles of beer with the corks
pulled were found in chimney in an
old deserted house, in western Kan
sas town the other day. No one seems
to know why the beer was put there.
Maybe Santa Claus does.
An angry bull knocked Ezra Elliott
of Pratt county, down, gored him in
the thigh once, left him unconscious
and went on eating grass 1t was
one-round affair, and the strange part
was that the bull realized it.
Acknowledgement Boyle has render
ed an opinion in which he holds that
parsonage owned by the church and
occupied by the pastor as a residence
is exempt from taxation, together with
the ground upon which it is located,
not to exceed one-half acre.
Kansas is gradually arranging her
self to fit her climate. She is as far
south as North Carolina and Tennessee.
The verandahs on Kansas houses are
growing. The women are running to
light, white attire. The clumsy men
still dress as the Dakotans, but they
will come to sensible dress some
day.
Warden Lands of the Kansas peni-
Tertiary, is doing his best to get at the
facts concerning the counterfeiting in
the mine by gang of convicts 1t
develops that plaster paris to make the
moulds was brought in by TRUSTEES,
and that convicts stole metal from the
machine and other shops and that they
received percentage of the spurious
money coined in the counterfeit mint.
The fact of counterfeiting being in
progress was first brought to light by
fight among convicts over division of
the bad coin.
John w. Breidenthal, state bank
commissioner, is deluged with letters
from eastern men inquiring how they
can borrow some of the surplus money
in Kansas He has received over fifty
letters during the past week, OF since
a financial interview with him was
published. One man wants to borrow
$40. 600 on 1000 acres of land in Illi-
nois, another wants $4,000 on 1900
acres of timber land in the south, and
Connecticut man wants $1,000 on his
home in New Haven. An Indiana man
wants to borrow s., 500 on stock of
groceries, and Philadelphia saloon
keeper would give his bar fixtures and
furniture as security for S7oO. Every
letter is written in good faith and has
stamp enclosed for reply.
When a little town like Glen Elder
supports two billiard halls, where does
the money came from? Some of it