The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1898-09-02


works of some kind.
The railroad boys at wellington ride
high wheel bicycles.
Peddlers selling snide watches are
working Kansas now.
The game laws of Kansas are not
very rigidly enforced.
The broom corn harvest In Rice coun'
ty is on in full blast.
The gossips say that Congressman
Ridgely is going to get married.
Sol Walker will train the Indian
football team at Haskell this year.
A gardner in Ottawa is raising toma-
toes this year that are no larger than
cherries.
There will be big broom corn har-
vest in Reno county this year. The
quality is good.
An Atchison undertaken belongs to
sixteen lodges. There is q man who
is strictly onto his job.
A Dickinson county man who has a
ten-acre field of watermelons has al
ready realized $500 for them.
The Oskaloosa Independent has de-
partment devoted to the news OF the
colored people of that town and vicin-
ity
Twenty years ago this week, the
prairie chicken law having expired,
there was great Strengthening of that
fowl.
Burlington young ladies did the
burnt cork act for the benefit of the
Episcopal church last week and made
money.
There is mourning in independence.
The leader of the local band has job
for the season with a thcater COM
pany.
The soldiers monument at Junction
City will be unveiled on September 10.
A large crowd will witness the cere-
mony.
A Shawnee county farmer wanted to
trade the railroad company calf for a
railroad ticket. This is genuine pros
pcrity.
George Parks, while feeding q
threshing machine near Sterling, was
hit on the head by bursting cylinder
and killed.
A Kansas man opens road to new
honors for Lieutenant Hobson. He
sank the only American vessel in the
Spanish war.
A rush contract has been let fol-
1000, 900 pounds of hay and straw at
Fort Riley. Unjust be that the troops
are coming back.
| An Atchison woman who few
months ago took six San Francisco lots
on debt of Sl,10O has been offered
| ST., 200 in cash for them.
A Harvey county lad has quit his
sweetheart. Confidently, he gives his
reason. The girl wears glasses and he
never could enjoy kissing her.
In 90 a Montgomery county farmer
bought 4G-acre tract of land, paying
$500 for it. Since then he has realized
81 400 from it from the wheat that has
grown on it since that year.
A Frenchman in Mcpherson county
who fell heir to a large fortune not
long since, has purchased seven or
eight farms in the eastern part of the
county and is looking for more.
The public sale season is close at
hand now, but it is not likely that the
country print shops will get rich print
ing sale bills this fall. Mighty few
people will want to pack up and leave
old Kansas this fall.
Every week the Louisburg Herald
runs half column or so of short,
snappy sayings by men of the town
and vicinity on current events of local
or general interest, which is probably
read with as much, and perhaps more
interest than any other department Of
of the paper.
The corner stone for Kansas City's
Agricultural Hall, or whatever the
building is going to be called, is seven
| feet square and three feet thick, and is
the largest corner stone ever laid in
the west Like almost everything else
that has contributed to the greatness
of that city it came from Kansas; from
Silverdale township, Cowley county.
One year ago seventy citizens OF
Hutchinson ''chipped in $1,000 and
sent Frank t. Martin to the Klondike,
with the understanding that they were
all to share in anything he might
strike. Mr.. Martin has just arrived at
Dawson with years provisions. 1t
took him a whole year to make the
trip. He writes to his partners that
the country is flooded with people who