The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1898-02-04

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W commissioner.
/ Mrs Thorpe, the police matron at
Topeka, has issued manifesto claim
ing that four-fifths of the fallen wom-
en- are the daughters of drunkards.
During the year 1897 the Canton
creamery received 1922, $40 pounds of
milk and turned out $50, 1853 pounds OF
butter which was sold for $136,53s.Sl.
A country correspondent of the Eu-
dora News gives an idea of the condi'
ton of the roads there by saying that
they are navigable for gun boats draw
ing two feet of water.
A Montgomery county man furni" 'es
the Santa Fe railroad company with
all the brooms it uses, from Chicago to
California. The contract amounts to
about /, 500 dozen year.
Five school districts in Stafford coun-
ty have abandoned the maintenance OF
schools and have arranged to have
their children sent to Maxwell, a cen
trial point, to be educated. Each dis
trict has entered into an agreement
with parents to gather up the children
in the morning and take them to the
school for less than 81 per day. To
maintain a school would cost each dis
trict at least SO day. Superintendent
Stryker has information that combina-
ton of a similar kind are being made
in several parts of the state.
The ground in Comanche county has
been covered with snow for over two
weeks and is in fine condition for the
wheat. Cattle have gone through the
winter so far in good shape and with
little feed A bunch of or months
old calves, and small at that, sold last
week at $50 per head and the buyer, it
is said, held them at SPA for some fu-
ture purchaser. Forty-tive dollars is
asked for cows and calves for spring
delivery. The register CT deeds says
there are some 175 released mortgages
uncalled for in his office.
Recently club of $50 Sedgwick
county farmers organized to settle in
the Canadian Northwest territory.
Agents of the Dominion government
were present and offered free trans
portation from the Canadian line to
any part of the territory and free
homestead. 1t all went smoothly un-
til the agents informed them that be
fore patent could be issued for their
land they would have to become ma
turalized citizens of Canada. This
caused a disruption and the colony
from Sedgwicll county will he very
small. The president of the club said
he did not want to leave Kansas for
good, but only joined because he
wanted some free transportion toward
the Klondike.
Superintendent of Public Instruction
Striker has issued an order to all
county superintendent insisting that
the following agreement must be in
serted in all contracts made with
teachers engaged for the coming school
term: 1T is also agreed that said
teacher will pursue the professional
course of study prescribed by the State
Reading Circle board or its equivalent,
will attend county and district teach
ers' associations and follow the COM
mon school course of study adopted by
the State Board of Education. Con-
tinued failure to comply with these con-
ditions, one months written notice
having been given the teacher and dis
trict board by the county superintend-
ent, renders this contract void at the
option of the district board, the coun-
ty superintendent concurring." The
object of putting this provision in the
contract, Mr.. Stryker says, is to com
pei teachers to become acquainted
with all subjects along the line of their
work.
The greatest hallelujah shout over
the recent rains and snow comes not
from the western desert end of Kan
sas, but from the eastern and southern
portion of the state, where for weeks
most of the wells and creeks have been
dry, and water has been hauled long
distances for stock.
A jackson county jointist, found
guilty of eleven counts, has been SEN
fenced to pay a fine of S1,1OO, and
spend eleven months in Jail. He is out
on $500 bail and will carry the fight on
up
About one hu ndred people in a circle
hunt near Pratt last week surrounded
big coyote. The coyote was so scared
that he fed from the scene and left
several people holding blindly to vel
low streak in the atmosphere.
George Koepfnger, farmer near
Atchison, choked himself to death by
+r;rcr n ahaul a hout his pack and