The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1899-06-16
Five hundred army mules were un-
loaded at Fort Riley the other day.

tlonal air the audience rise 10 theii
feet. In the west they do not.
Kansas will get two Spanish guns
They are not mounted. Governor
Stanley is to designate where they
shall be located.
Mayor Elstun, of Moline, announces
that hereafter he will crack down on
the parties who find pleasure in dis
charging fire arms within the corpor'
ato limits.
Algood, the man mixed up in the
New matter, has been convicted o,
forgery in Greenwood county, and
will be sent to the penitentiary for
terra of five years.
Cowley county has gained nearly IL
not quite 1000 in population during
the last year. About half of the gain
comes from the country and the rest
from the two cities.
Pojken Swennsson, a swede, was
drifting in boat on the Smoky
river the other day, smoking a pipe.
The boat went over dam and cap
sized. Swennsson kept his head above
water and swan to shore still smoking
his pipe.
Some one ought to report the read
ing on the water guage in the Barton
county lake again. Is the lake filling
up? Is Kansas going to have a big
bathing beach of her own, or are we
to continue the practice of slipping
down to the creek after nightfall and
when we want to splatter water?
William Muir, one of the best known
and wealthiest farmers of Saline coun
ty, was drowned on June 9th in the
Smoky river Since the heavy rains
he feared that the river would over.
flow and damage his crops He went
to the river to watch it's progress,
when the bank suddenly gave away,
letting him fall into the water.
At Wier City the Kansas and Texas
Coal company has posted notices at it's
mines that until further notice it will
pay 81 ton for screened lump, begin
ming June l. The company is operat-
ing one mine, No IS, and a few more
men are going to work every day.
The efforts of the union to get the
men at the Central Coal and Coke COM
Nos. and II to strike proved a
failure.
School teachers are having their an
nual scuttle after positions. This is a
part of the grief of life of school
teacher. A man who is employed in
almost any kind of bushes house
has reasonable certainty of keeping
his job as long as he is satisfactory;
but with the average teacher the end
of the term is the end of the job, and
he has to go after it again and fight
off others who have designs on his
place
Cheap Rates to Pacific Coast via Santa Fes
The Santa Fe are selling tickets to
San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego
and other California points at the very
cheap rate OF S32. so.
To Portland and points in Idaho and
Oregon $2ss5. For particulars call
on or address, l.. R. DELANEY, Agt.,
Wichita, Kans
Homeseekers' Excursion via Santa Fs
Route
On June the Goth, the Santa Fe
viii sell round trip tickets at the very
cheap rate of one fare for the round
trip plus $500 to all points in Arkan-
sas, Arizona, Indian territory and New
Mexico These tickets will bear going
limit with stopover privileges of fifteen
days; final return limit twenty-one
days from date of sale. Before pur-
chasing tickets you will do well to call
on some representative of the road
reaches all points of inportance-The
Great Santa Fe.
L. R. DELANEY, Agt.
At Spearville, out in Ford county, a
connie of men are enpaCed in the work
of making bicycle handle-bars out of
horns Their scheme was patented
last month. They call their product
the "Wild West" handle-bar, and will
place the novelty on sale this season.
All kinds of talent can be found in
Kansas. Joseph Hill, Mitchell coun-
ty farmer, is a sculptor. He recently
carved the figure of an American vol
unteer out of native Kansas stone and
it is said to be a very creditable piece
of work.
A list of patents granted to Kansans
appeared a few days ago without a
car-coupling device being mentioned a
single time.
A Rocks county man was sent to
the pen last week with a sentence of
five years for burglary and one day for
larceny to wait out.
Kansas newspapers are very fair