The Chanute times., 1898-01-14
'..nHE BROWNIES" IN WICHITA
The Wonderful New York Productions
Thursday Matinee and Night, Jan. Is.


tions in the country, c. b. jefferson
a Klaw & Erlapger's big New York pro
s duction, Palmer Cox's Brownies,
will be seen at the Crawford Graud o.
Thursday, Jan. 18th. A matinee q
2:30 p. m. and night performanc
will be given. The railroads offe
cheap excursion rates for the big pro
duction, for which matinee prices ar
75c for adults and soc for children, tn
night scale being 25, so, 75c, & 81, NJ
higher.
Seventy-four people, including Eva
Tanguay, Gertie Carlyle, Budd Ross
Chs Hagan, Sol. Solomon, and othei
favorite artists, will be seen, and !;
scenes of the most elaborate nature
will be shown. Palmer Cox, the fam
GUS Brownie Man." will appear, ani
draw Brownies for the audience. The
marvellous flying ballot from the Fol-
les Bergeres, Paris; the troupe of beau
tiful Oriental dancing girls; Newhouse
Eddie Pinaud, the phenomenal Brown
ie trick bicyclist, and other novel spec
ialty features that made the big pro-
duction the talk of all New York, Chi
cago, Boston and Philadelphia, during
the long engagements of The Brown
les" in these cities, will positively be
presented. The storm and shipwreck
at sea, the earthquake and volcano,
the destruction of the magnificent pal
ace, and other wonderful spectular eff
fects will be shown in their entirety,
while the grand transformation scene,
THE Break of Day in Brownieland,"
it is promised, will surpass in beauty
and grandeur anything ever previously
exhibited on the Wichita stage.
The Kansas and Southwestern Rail.
way company directors have filed an
official plat of their survey from Hun.
newell, Kan, to Parker, O. T., with
the Governor.
Wolves are SO numerous in Pawnee
county and their depredations upon
poultry, pigs and sheep so destructive
that the county commissioners have
placed a bounty of SO per head upon
their scalps. and will ask the commits
sioners of Barton, Stafford, Hodgeman,
Rush and Edwards countios to do the
same thing.
The required number of tax payers
have petitoned the city council of
Pittsburg to submit to the voters the
question of the establishment of free
public library. The present city hall
is being converted into headquarters
for the paid fire department and the
city will be compelled to build large
public building. The plan now is to
build building with an auditorium
seating 5000 people and have the pub
lie library and city offices in the same
building.
Articles of incorporation for another
Oklahoma railroad have been filed
with the secretary of the territory.
The capital stock is fixed at $S00,00
divided into $4,000 shares of the value |
of S25 each. The proposed road which
is to be called the Missouri, Oklahoma
and Texas railway, is to be built from
Henrietta, Clay county, Texas, in
northerly and easterly direction
through the Indian and Oklahoma ter
ritories to point on the north bound
ary line of the Indian territory, to be
selected by the company, between the
town of Chetopa and the point where
the Arkansas river is crossed by the
said north boundary line, with Il branch
to be constructed from point on the
main line between the point of cross
ing of the North Fork of the Canadian
river and point due west of the town
of Wagner il the Creek nation, and
TO run thence to Wagner over the
most practicable and feasible route.
The Topeka fall festival manage.
ment paid it's bills at 75 cents on the
dollar.
The county clerks of Kansas have de-
clared war on the Santa Fe because il
refused to issue them passes
An offer of $1,000 was made for
lot on the square at st. John. That
sounds like old times during the boom
days.
Scarlet fever is making its appear
ance in several places in Mcpherson
Several deaths have resulted.
One case is now reported at Marquette.
The mayor Of Cimarron is Mrs. Cur
tis, one of the very sharpest business
in Kansas. She keeps a store
and does a thriving business. She
conducts the business of Cimarron
with master hand, and while her
election was regarded as joke, she is
now regarded as the best mayor that
the city of Cimarron has ever had.
Cimarron at this time is weighted down