The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1898-03-11

organized at Eudora.
A Brown county man sold team o
mares last week for $50.
Good prices are the rules at the pub
lie sales throughout Kansas thi
spring.
Newton is going to have new band
1t is to be called the Middle Division
! band.
In Kansas theatres there is never
such a thing as small audiences Sinai
audiences are known as "a fair crowd.
The Kansas farmers are wondering
why some fellow doesn't invent 1
rocking chair as seat on the reaper
and binder.
March came in like lion in south
ern Kansas this year. 1t is the first
time in years that March didn't come
in like dandelion'
If the Kansas university is to have .
chair Of journalism the contract should
be made before all the good Journalistic
90 to Key West and Havana.
Two men at the town Of Sedgwicl
have invented a lawn mover which
does not dsplace the liver when tho
operator is pushing it.
There was FIRE at Rome the Other
night and nobody fddled. Rome is
twelve miles south from Wellington il
Summer county and only one house
was burned.
The country correspondence in al
the weedly papers in Kansas show,
very little intrest in the war news,
Kansas has become so sensible thai
she will not permit herself a few day.
war drunk.
A Iyba woman shot a target last
Sunday and as she went to see whether
she had hit the mark her 4-year ole
boy took up the gun and aimed at the
target The bullet took effect in the
woman's side MORALLY wounding her.
The manufacturer understand the
condition of the Kansas farmer mans
pocket book this year, and have put or
the market riding cultivator with q
canopy top sun shade: little extra
frill that the farmers will be perfectly
willing to pay for.
Two cattle men OF Harvey county
sold two lunches of cattle to outside
parties for sum aggregating over
S.. 900. Sales of this size are getting to
be matters of every day occurrence and
cattlemen come here from all over the
state to buy feeders.
A new graft has turned up in Sedg-
wick county for which the farmers
should be on their guard. A soomth
tougued rascal comes along with seed
oats to sell. There is nothing common
a about these oats. They are the big
gest, best, brightest, and heaviest oats
that ever grew out of the ground. He
sells half a bushel for s. aud to show
that he has con tidence in them agrees
to take all the farmer will raise from
them at one dollar bushel. One far.
mer who was won by his talk signed an
agreement to deliver him twenty-five
bushels He has been thinking over it
of late and is now fearful that the al
legged contract will sooner or later turn
up in the form Of note; and it doubt.
less will.
A war is on in Kansas between
preachers and civil officers over the
fees charged for performing the mar
riage ceremony. A new law fixes the
maximum charge for this service by
probate judges and justices of the peace
at $3.50. Until it went into effect they
S. or rs much as the BRIDE
groom would stand. The new law
does not affect preachers, who get
from SIS to $40, but protests from them
are coming from all sections of the
state. They claim that in order to get
any of the business they are forced to
marry people for S1.5O
Pupils of Washington county school
are enjoying a holiday now. Their
teacher went duck hunting and the
gun went off at the wrong end; but he
got the ducks.
Those valiant officers OF the Kansas
militia who have been sounding the
hewgag end fercely sending forth the
note of war are to be called down by
their superior officers: and it is pref
ty good time to impress upon their
minds before the necessity of action
arises that soldier is measured by
deeds, not words.
A Mound City butcher is putting in
his supply of ice from Nebraska. 1t is
the first time in years that the crop
failed, and not pound of ice has been
put up there.
Evergreen hospital at Leavenworth
was burned March 1. Being outside