The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1898-04-29


1t is said that the best poker player
in Pratt is Sunday school teacher.
A rate of So for the round trip will
be made from Atchison to Omaha for
the opening day of the exposition.
The Topeka auditorium matter is
progressing finely. Ample subscrip-
tions have been received to insure its
construction.
There are a lot of men in the Strip
who live in Oklahoma one year, in
Kansas the next, in Oklahoma the next
and so ON. OF course they will die
poor.
If the rain record of Kansas during
the last week keeps up little longer
the grass in the bed of the late Arkan-
sas river will make good early pasture
for cattle.
Adisease something like measles and
something like scarlet fever, is in
southern Kansas and Oklahoma. The
doctors do not know what to make of
it. 1t is not serious.
The Wichita jingoes took a back
seat during the big G. A. r. encamplnent
there last week. Real fighters had
possession of the city. They are the
men who have proved themselves to be
patriots.
During the last big rain three inches
of water fell in western Kansas. The
ground is thoroughly soaked and the
streams are all bank full. Wheat is
looking fine and the oats are coming
out nicely.
There is slight difference of opin-
ion between the Topeka State Journal
and the late Noah Webster. The lat
ter says that patriotism is love of coun-
try, while the State Journal calls the
refusal of Virginia lady to eat Span
sh salad patriotism.
There is one institution in Kansas
that the war with Spain will not bene-
fit financially, and that is the eanteen
at Fort Riley. Nobody is now left to
drink from that same old canteen but
those two jolly old veterans, Sergeants
rrI,o,nb;11
A effort is being made to get Jack
Burke of Sedgwicll county ont of the
penitentiory on account of i'll health.
He was sent up in 1895 for burglary
and grand larceny, during the com
mission of which man named Me-
Ginty lost eight hundred dollars and
an arm.
Assistant Secretary of State Charles
NJ. Ross of Kansas thinks from the
present outlook in Jewell county that
so far as that particular locality is con-
cerned the mortgage holder will soon
follow the troubador and the mound
builder into the realms of complete
extinction.
An Osborne county woman who
wants divorce alleges that her hus-
band is ver-bearing, domineering and
tyrannical; that he made her attend to
the stock and do out door work; that
different times he struck her, spit in
her face, called her vile names, and on
two occasions she was obliged to seek
safety in her mothers home. This is
not a case for the divorce court 1t be-
longs to the local vigilance committee.
A number of Salinas business men
are interested in a new telephone in
vented by +. II. Brown, of Chicago,
upon which patents have just been
secured and which will, it is believed,
completely revolutionize the telephone
system. The reason why this result
is expected is that the instruments may
be built much more cheaply and they
give perfect service The war and
navy departments have become inter
ested and will likely introduce them in
the service.
Scott Rice, County Attorney of Smith
county, is vigorously prosecuting the
case of the Gaylord stock shipper who
was refused transportation on car of
stock as provided for in the new law.
This case has not yet been decided.
The Garnett Eagle is inclined to
view with suspicion the allowance by
the board of county commissioners at
their last quarterly meeting of $425
for 10 wolf scalps. 1--WE doubt if there
have been 10 grown wolves in Ander-
son county in two years, defiantly
screams the Eagle.
Postmaster General Geary has issued
an order to the effect that postoffice
employees who desire to go to war will
not lose their places provided substi-
tutes may be found who are satisfac-
tory to their bondsmen and to the de-
partment.
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