The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1899-05-26
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST

ploy of the Kansas Cracker company
an Independence institution.
Specer, coal oil inspector, has turned
over his collections for the month Of
April, amounting to $2,512.
What Kansas wants to know is il
eastern dollars will follow on the
heels of eastern compliments.
Coyote scalps are legal tender at one
dollar each in Hodgeman county. This
comes mighty near being wildcat
money.
Oliver Ewell of Kiowa county, has
one thousand acres of upland planted
to sorghum and laffiir corn, and the
crop looks well.
Judge Hook, at Fort Scott this week
took the strong stand of refusing to
dismiss any case in which the costs
had not been paid
While a Columbus man was attend
ing services in the Baptist church some
unregenerate sinner made off with his
horse and buggy.
Some of the Kansas towns are call
ing the attention of visitors to the fact
that the town has not suffered bust
ness failure since O3.
That colony of 10000 Kansans in
Kansas City must feel cheap for hav-
ing left Kansas They can take no
share in the glory now.
The Scandal Journal has discovered
that some fellows who are too poor to
pay for their home paper manage to
dig up dollar or SO week which
they blow IN at the joints.
A well eighteen inches in diameter
was bored at the artificial ice plant in
Atchison, and at depth of 46 feet be-
low flow of water was struck almost
artesian in nature. 1t does not force
itself above the surface, as is the case
with most artesian wells, but water
has been pumped from it at the rate
of ninety gallons minute without
exhausting it. The instant the pumps
stop the water rushes almost to the
top of the well.
And now an astronomer comes forth
with the prediction that Bielas comet
will meet up with the earth on the 18th
of next November and cause no end of
trouble If Mr.. Biela's comet expects
to do any business in Kansas it. will
have to select some other date. Nov-
ember 18th is already taken. Tlrat is
election day, and no irey-tailed tramp
of inter-stellar space will be able to
divert attention from "the situation"
and the ballot-boX.
There is no penitcntiary in Ollaho-
ma, and there are no poorhouses or
poorfarms in the territory. The need
of such things has never been felt.
Although there is an impression in the
east that this is u lawless country, the
reports of the criminal courts show
that the penitentiary population Is
only 1856, and that there was only one
convict last year for every 2,150 of the
inhabitants while in the good state OF
Ohio the ratio was one for every 1902;
IN Kansas, one to every 1,600, and in
Indiana one to every 1880. There are
jails, or 'coolers" as the people kindly
call them in all of the larger towns,
but in the smaller places when man
has committed an offense against So
ciety the sheriff locks him up in u va
cant room until he gets time to take
him to court,
At Pleasanton a man was fined $40
and sent to Jail for thirty days for
throwing hot coffee on his mother-in-
law. 1t is not stated what line of de-
Tense he adopted, but he probably
alleged that his mother-in-law kept
him in hot water.
The recent raino in Cowley coun-
w nave almost lQSuTeQ Une WHGdO CTOp
of that section. In the three days
rain of last week nearly four inches of
water fell The rainfall for April this
year has exceeded that of any previous
April for several years.
The proposition to vote bonds for
county high school in Morris county
last week failed. The vote just can
vassed shows 1921 for and APO votes
against. The country precincts de.
feated it.
Beattie has fire engine and hose
cart, but no organized department of
fire fighters. A few nights ago there
was an alarm of Ere. Everybody lit
out for the scene of fire, forgetting all
about the fire apparatus. The Palla-
dunn calls loudly for the organization
of volunteer fire department.
The Indications now are that the eff
fort on the part of Governor Stanley TO
secure reduced insurance premium
rates for Kansas through the co-opera-