The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1898-08-05
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

$500 a year tax on the Premium
Stamp association.
Senator Harris ventures the infor.
nation that the war will be still on
when the snow flies.
Webb McNall has turned over SIS, 00O
to the state as collected by the insur-
ance department in June.
A man in Gypsum Creek township
last week proved up on the last home
stead in Mcpherson county.
Old soldiers attending the Norris
county grand army reunion are invited
to bring their canteens along.
The sheriff of Marion county will
not allow prisoners in his custody to
have either bad literature or liquor.
Jewett City has put up stand for
the band boys, and the girls of the
town are raising money for placing
seats in the park.
Governor Leedy offers 5000 reward
for the apprehension of John Bell, ac-
cused of murder of one Chambers, at
Humboldt, July 4.
Hutchinson boy who was rejected
as a soldier has married pretty girl.
This shows there is always q chance
to get to the front.
1t is no longer correct to holler
''haw" or gee at team of horses.
To be up to date you must say port"
and "starboard."
Nomination papers require ten
cent stamp. Again Kansas will do her
full share toward defraying the ex-
penses of the war.
Only three Junes in twelve years in
Kansas have been warmer than the
last June, and only three Junes in the
same period have been wetter.
The baby struck on the head by ne
gro Albert Smith, at lola last Satur-
day, died Monday. 1t was Smiths
baby. He will be neld for murder.
Warrants have been issued in Usage
county for the arrest of the sporting
editor of the Kansas City Star, and
others who had sporting carnival
there last Sunday.
Young married couples who have a
marriage certificate which is not deco
rated with a ten cent revenue stamp
have just found out that they aren't
clear married yet.
Secretary Coburn's friends now need
an introduction when they meet him.
His face has been smoothly shaver and
his best friends look at him twice be-
fore they are sure of his identity.
A Hiawatha man who was grub
staled for a Klondike trip is now
working in a saw mill. He gets SIS a
day, but even at that he will never be
able to get rich in country where
bacon and beans form n luxury in
which only purse-proud millionaires
can revel.
A man is travelling over the state ex-
hibiting a stuffed octopus. A few years
ago he might have coined money, but
the people have of late years grown so
accustomed to the octopus, and have
heard so much of the critters habits,
that stuffed one will not cut great
deal of ice.
Gaylord Hearld A Lincoln county
farmer employed one the Beloit indus
trial school girls to do housework for
him while his mother was sick and
liked her so we'll that he married her.
The wedding took place at the school,
where great dinner was served, and
all the girls had holiday.
5The circulating medium in this state
is receiving quite an addition from the
amount of money that is being sent
home by the soldier boys. 1t is really
surprising how ''forehanded" the boys
are. OF course the amounts sent home
are all small ones, but in the aggregate
I0cy lOOG up nduboOhlO
A Coffeyville man who has been mar.
ried but two months came home the
other night and was upbraided by his
wife for being late to supper. He took
a Winchester rifle and went out into
the barn and shot hole through his
heart, no doubt departing for place
where the cook never kicks over hav
ing to keep things warm. But the
terminal facilities of this gentleman
are not so much of interest at this
time as the lesson all dutiful wive:
ought to learn from the tragedy. L
the Coffeyville alternative should once
become the fashion the whole eartl
would be dotted with suicides grave
and widows would runin flock Xix,
hens chickens.
R.F. Vaughn, the editor of thu
Mankato Monitor, who enlisted ant
became the captain of a company, hai
-,een ordered north ON account of il