The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1899-01-27

has pass keys
A new row is imminent. The stock
breeders are going to ask for state
fair and half the large towns in the
state will be fighting for it.
The year just rolled into the past
was record breaker for weddings in
Jewell county; 1871 of them. The next
best year was '97, with 81 less.
Hodgeman county has twenty thous-
and dollars in the treasury and is try
ing to get it into circulation by pay
ing a bounty of one dollar on wolf
scalps.
A Natoma man divides time between
barber work and watch repairing. A
number of years ago the local harness
maker acted as the village barber in
that town.
A Stockton young lady has learned
that it is impossible to hold pin in
ones mouth and at the same time root
for the home foot ball team. She
swallowed the pin.
Westmoreland expects work to be
commenced within two weeks on the
railroad which will give it connection
with the outside world. The town
ship bond election carried four to one
| in favor of the road.
Speaking of push and progress, a
Horton Chinaman will put in steam
laundry in the spring. Even the
plodding Chinaman finds it impossible
to stay in the old rut after getting next
to rustling Americanism.
A large force of men arc at work re-
pairing the Santa Fe depot platforms
along the Salina branch. They will
also repair and remodel the stock
yards of the company at Salina. A
general order of improvement has
been made all along the line.
The newspapers have commented
great deal on the Topeka man who
carries life insurance to the amount of
$500, 900. The incest thing about this
is that it is SO arranged that it is not
necessary for him to die to beat the
game.
Doubtless there are many people in
Kansas who do not know that there
is in the state paper which is the or
gan of the Kansas State Grange, and
which is devoted principally to that
order. This is the function of the
Kansas Patron, weekly paper print
cd at Olathe.
Mormon preachers are circulating
over Sumner county, holding meetings
and trying to convert people to the
Mormon faith. In some places they
are refused the right of school houses
and public buildings in which tn meet.
But they continue their work, going
from house to house and spreading
their literature.
A Jewell county justice stuck tur-
key thief for $50 and 90 days in Jail.
He probably would not have plastered
him so hard if it had not been shown
that the fellow had served a term in
the pen for stealing several hundred
dollars from his grandfather. A man
who will steal from his old grand-pap
deserves severe treatment.
A southern Kansas congregation was
suffering terribly with the grip. The
bark was so great that the minister
could hardly continue with his sermon
for the noise. But after the contribu-
ton basket had been around and reach
ed him, he gazed into it and remarked
audibly; II would have thought this
congregation could have coughed up
more than that
A couple of years ago Will Logan of
the State University Geological survey,
made a careful investigation and re-
ported that there was no indication of
the presence of valuable minerals in
General Artz's burrows out in Trego
county; but every once in a while the
statement hobs up that there is good
thing out there.
There has been great deal of dis
cussion in the Kansas papers for the
past few weeks as to when the new
century begins, and columns of space
have been devoted to it, The Chicago
Daily News suggests to those in doubt
that they borrow money, giving note
payable on the first day of the new
century. and the bank will let them
know when the time arrives.
In 1870 Charles Hertig arrived in
northern Ottawa county as poor as
any of the pioneers who were coming
into the state at that time. Last week
he decided to each of his three sons a
200-acre tract of land southwest of
Delphos. After deciding away the 600
acres he has 16O left for himself, be-
sides lots of good American coin and