The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1899-04-14

A Doniphan county farmer is called
Hobson because when his wagon got
stuck in the mud at narrow place in
the road he unhtched his mules and
allowed his craft to sink down to hard
pan.
Every Kansas paper contains warn
ing against Diamond Dick" the well
known medical humbug 1t is useless
to warn people against humbug'. They
want to be humbugged, and that's all
there is to it.
A large steel and iron bridge which
will cost in the neighborhood of Sl3,-
900 is to be built over the Kansas river
opposite the town of DeSoto, on the
south side of the river, the north ter
minus to be near Lenape in Leaven-
worth county.
Lieutenant Humphrey, who was
wounded in the Philippines few days
ago, is Sedgwicl1 county boy, who
was appointed to West Point by Jerry
Simpson during his first term in con-
gress. He was the first populist APP
pointee in the national military acad-
envy.
A Barber county man narrowly es-
capped losing the sight of one eye on
account of a stick striking it while he
was cutting kindling. How ashamed
this mans wife must be to know that
an item of this nature secured public
ity for the division OF work in their
home.
The different kinds of grief on this
earth have never yet been enumerated,
but one of the most poignant is that
which steals over MAN who has
plowed up field of wheat thought to
be winter-killed, and then sees his
neighbors' fields come out in good
shape.
The Great Western Stove Works of
Leavenworth notified their employees
on April 5th of an advance in wages
of 10 per cent. The advance was not
asked for and was voluntarily given
on the part of the company. In all
about 300 mechanics and laborers are
affected.
Something has started an interest in
better country school houses. The city
of Marquette contemplates two-room
addition to the city school building.
District No. 2s, in Little Valley town
ship, commonly called wolf Creek,
has tho money ready and will begin
new school house this month. A num-
Der of country schools are getting
ready to build.
The interest in the zinc and lead
prospecting at Pleasanton is more in
tense than ever before. On April 9th
the worlmen in shaft No. struck
good vein of lead which is estimated
by an expert miner from Cripple Creek
to run GO per cent lead and 10 per cent
silver. The extent of the deposit is
not known, but indications are that it
is large. The zinc vein is showing up
fine.
The state board of education has de-
termined what requirements are nee,
essary to enable the various colleges
in Kansas to avail themselves of the
provisions of the new law placing
them on an equal basis with the State
Normal school at Emporia in issuing
certificates to graduates. The new
law is lame in the provision pertaining
to pedagogy, failing to specify just
what shall constitute graduation. The
board of education has adopted reso-
luton requiring that each institution
shall maintain separate department.,
presided over by special teacher for
this branch This action disposes of
the questions involved in the new law
and all institutions will be required
to comply with the rules prescribed by
the board.
Erie will have a creamery in opera
ton within week or sooner.
Governor Stanley has forwarded 60
President Mckinley an invitation to
come to Kansas during the latter part
of May or early in June to attend the
Transmississippi Commercial congress,
which meets in annual session in
Wichita. The invitation which the
governor has forwarded was provided
for by the house and senate in adopt
ing a concurrent resolution extending
an urgent request that the president
come west at that time.
The farmers in north Dickinson
county are having extensive losses of
horses, cattle and hogs from an cpl
demic of hydrophobia, resulting from
several mad dogs. Efforts to stop it
have been unavailing.
1t would doubtless surprise many
people if they could see the amount of
space the weekly papers of Kansas