The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1899-07-28

that Fred Funston will accompan,
the Twentieth Kansas home.
| Wyandotte county's assessment o
personal property for taxation ha
been doubled by the state board o
equalization.
The letters from the Kansas boys il
Manila were not being withheld. The.
are now arriving, and are printed IL
large numbers
While excavating for the founda
tions for bridge in Russell county
workmcn ran across a vein of came
coal foot in thickness
The Kansas newspaper men who in
tend to make the Canadian trip are
scheduled to leave Kansas City Wed
nesday evening, August 16.
The experience of Mr.. Happy, who
tried to break out of the federal pris
on at Leavenworth, and was captured
proves that there is nothing in a name.
1t has been discovered that "A of the
ordinances of the city of Marquette
are void for the reason that errors
were made in preparing them for pub
LEGATION.
A regiment of army worms is COM
soe. ,, N,,I al ;,,t0 Koncac bouincr ol-
ready struck the southern portion OF
the state. They prefer sorghum to
work in.
The county treasurer of Rice county
was caught by surprise party of 100
friends the other night, with his shoes
off and with his bare feet in the re-
frigerator.
The tallest corn stalk raised in the
United States this year will be exhib-
tied at Paris. 1t will probably come
from Kansas. 1t ought to- anyhow,
and will, if only the pains are taken
to look it up
Ottawa's police Judge has been treat
ing crap shooters rather leniently but
in a card addressed to the fraternity
he announces that hereafter Offenders
who are brought before him will be
stuck good and plenty.
At Paola a chicken thief mortgaged
his scraggly old team for So. so in order
to get the money with which to square
himself when his thievery was discov-
cred. This is an aggravated case Of
chickens coming home to roost.
Directors of the Interstate Reunion
association of Baxter Spring have ar
ranged to build an amphitheater for
New Camp Logan. The indications
are that the reunion this year will be
one of the notable gatherings of the
season.
No one in Kansas doubts farmer
this year when he comes to town with
a story about the rapidity with which
his corn is going up in the air. The
weather has been so favorable for corn
growing that any story will be be-
lieved.
Work has been commenced on West
morelands railroad. There have been
so many discouragements connected
with this enterprise that there will be
genuine hallelujah time when the
road reaches the capital OF Pottawa-
tonne county.
New business concerns have so en-
crouched on halls and other public
places in western Kansas lately that
in one town it is now proposed, for
lack of another place, to hold poul-
try show in the local Methodist
church.
A Topeka woman says that she does
not see how there can be any possible
risk run in raising hogs. She got her
experience in hog culture out in west
ern Kansas Her father would give
her the young pigs; she fattened them
on feed belonging to the old gentle
man, and says that her hog ventures
were always profitable.
Theatrical attractions are being
booked for Hutchinson, and the peo-
pie will see them in the new opera
house the coming winter.
Cowley county has its full number
of suckers There are seven men liv-
ing there who each paid 81 900 for the
county right to patent washing ma
chine.
Alfred Bysel, who has been Mis-
souri, Pacific freight brakeman in Kan
sas for fifteen years, has inherited
fortune of $4,000 by the death of an
uncle in Philadelphia.
Overalls sold cheap in western
Kansas town one day last week. A
couple of firms got to bucking They
ran the price down to ten cents pair
and each store closed out all on hand
at that figure.
The Rock Island railroad is running
special suburban trains to salt lake