The Chanute times., 1899-03-24
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

urHlture is on Jne markeU Dtdr'
ing the brand: made in Coffeyville,
Kansas"
Thirty sheep are killed for the Sun
day dinner of the old soldiers at the
Home at Leavenworth.
Ottawa thinks it has reached the
degree of gayety where it can sport
and support lodge of Ells.
There is an Uncle Tom show at
large in Kansas with 25, so and so
cent scale of prices. No self-respect-
ing man will cough up more than 80
cents to see a Tom show.
1T takes positive evidence to con-
vict under the prohibitory law" says
Kansas exchanges but from the way
some cases turn out it appears that
positive evidence even, don't always
90 the work.
Leavenworth women are selling
tickets to a scheme similar to that
worked in Kansas City to raise money
for the auditorium. They want money
to build library, and the tickets are
chances on prizes which have been do
mated.
The Regent says that in the Riley
postotfice there are thirty letters and
about fifty papers for man who lives
within five miles of the town. He is
in town once or twice a week, but has
not called for his mail for four mon this
This is hard story to tell on a man
from Kansas.
Here is the proposition offered by
Boston capitalist to the people of Ft.
Scott: He will purchase the old Par
kinson sugar factory and convert it
into a beet sugar factory if citizens of
Fort Scott will take $40, 600 stock in a
company organized to operate the
plant, and guarantee to contract for
one-half the beets for the first year.
Mrs Louise Reynolds, well-to-do
widow at Atchison, who belongs to
church, wears diamonds and is good
looking, was recently found to be the
person who has been trying to burn
the town. She was dressed in mans
clothes when caught. She pleaded to
be permitted to put on dress, and
while the policemen were waiting she
shot herself through the lungs. She
will live. She is undoubtedly crazy.
An Atchison colored fellow was Civ
en- ten months in the county Jail this
week for stealing canned fruit from
the cellar of housewife of that town.
1t is good thing for the Judge that
his official position is not at all de- !
pendent on the vote of he women.
The women will say unanimously that
sentence of ten months in the coun-
ty Jail for stealing home-canned fruit
is ridiculously light in comparison
with the enormity of the crime.
The grand lodge of the colorcd Ma
sons of Kansas will hold its annual |
meeting in Atchison in August About |
two hundred delegates will be present,
in addition to several hundred other
members Special Importance will be
attached to the convention from the
fact that monument to the memory
of the late D. G. Lett at Mt Vernon
cemetery will be unveiled. D. A. Jones,
grand master of Kansas, will be in
Atchison in few days to make ar
rangements to have the monument
erected. The late D. G. Lett was the
first grand master of Kansas, and the
Masons desire to perpetuate his mem
ory with a monument
Harry Tornbloom of Mcpherson
county, has Swedish dirk, the blade
OF which darts forth when a spring is
touched. In playing with this the
other day Tornbloom touched the
spring by mistake and cut cash over
a friends heart.
Mary Choteau, aged 70, widow of
Pierce Choteau, the historic early set
tier who founded trading post in
johnson county, Kansas, near Turner,
years ago, is dead. Her husband ex-
plored and traded in the southwest
when it was still Wilderness
The state board of pharmacists COM
pleted their examination of the appli-
cants for certificates as registered
pharmacists last week, and only five
of the twenty-eight applicants passed
the examination.
The estate of John T. Lamborn.
murdered at Fall Leaf two years ago,
was settled last week 1t amounted
to S29 900 in value, and was settled
among five children. 1t will be re
membcred that son and daughter
were tried for the murder and acquit-
ted.
Norton's cheese factory recently
shipped lot of its product to point
in Louisiana.
The state of Kansas was visited bv a