The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1898-07-22
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

III 1dNOI VI d CuIlCW
The Meeiden creamery is now turn
ing out 1,400 pounds of butter daily.
Four hundred acres of Pottawatomi'
county land sold last week for SIT, 900
The people of Ellsworth county have
subscribed for nearly 100000 worth OF
war bonds.
No one is allowed to loiter on the
streets of Winfield after nine o'clock
at night.
Recent prohibition rows at Downs
have resulted in adding one more joint
TO that town.
A woman is to be nominated for
county school superintendent in Jeffer-
son county.
Lewis Phillips writes from Klondike
TO Lawrence friends stating that he
has seen few Indians up there.
Salina, which has $1,000 Of idle
money in the city treasury, is talking
of putting up an auditorium.
]. R. Harrison of Salina, postofice
inspector has been promoted to the
chief bureau of mail depredations.
A girl in Republic county lived thir-
ty minutes after drinking bottle of
carbolic acid. Her name was Addie
Rudolph.
The editor of the bingham New
Deaf says it is harder to find a man to
do job of work in that town now
than at any other time during the past
five years.
The .Stuewe brothers of Alma, cele-
brated the Fourth of July by shipping
ten cars of steers to Kansas City. The
steers averaged 1906 pounds and sold
at $4.65.
A Howard man, who found bunch
of keys at the door of his corn crib,
courteously offers to return them to
the owner if he will call and prove
property.
Citizens of La Crosse furnished bar
rel of lemonade for train load of
Pennsylvania volunteers who went
through there the other day bound for
San Francisco.
An old soldiers reunion will be held
at Frankfort next month and the peo-
pie are going to great pains to make it
n success. Reunions this year ought to
be success. The soldier spirit" is
in the air.
There is a great hurry-scurryation
among the booze dispensers in Usage
county, where the grand jury re-
Gently returned forty-three indict-
ments, most of them on account of vio-
lations of the prohibitory law.
Postmaster Aldrich of Cawker City,
keeps the order from the postoffice de-
partment requiring an increase in box
rents on exhibition all the time so
that kicl1ers can be convinced that he
did not make the raise himself, just to
be ornery There probably isn't a
postmaster in the state who has not
been accused of being directly respon-
sible for the increase.
Miss Josie Smith, of Jewell City. an
nounces herself in the regulation way
as a candidate for superintendent of
public instruction of Jewell county
1t was not great while ago when the
first woman was elected to this posi-
ton in Kansas; and it will not be a
great while, either, before they will
begin to regard this Office as their own
particular pudding; but they seem to
fill the bill all right.
One day last week the rope which
holds the flag at the top of the city
flag pole in Horton slipped through
the pulley at the top and fell to the
groung. An employee of the Rock Is
land shops offered to put it in place
for S., and he did, too. Some idea OF
the difficulty of the job may be had
when it is known that the pole, which
is So feet in height, is made of four
inch gas pipe for the first 62 feet, the
top section of 20 feet having diameter
of but two inches.
1t happened in Saline county. A
drunken husband who repeatedly abus-
ed his wife, until in her despair she
attempted to take her own life with a
32-calibre revolver; but her aim was
bad, and although the bullet barely
missed her heart, it is likely that she
will recover. A husband who will act
in that manner toward his wife is too
much of brute to be reasoned with,
and has not enough sense to profit by
experience; but if he ever repeats the
offense there is an argument which
will reach him, and it should be used.
A lot of Stevens county men turned
the cattle out on the range last week
while they went up to help harvest the
par+on countv wheat crOD at the rate