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

county this year than there has beer
for the last five years
There are as many persons seeking
jobs in the Kansas penitentiary al
there are prisoners in that institu
tion.
Enough Kansas soldiers have beer
wounded in the Philippines to fl
one Office in each county in the state
of Kansas.
If there is anything in good wishes
Mrs. Hanback, will make great sue
cess as superintendent of the Indus
trial school at Beloit.
Wathena is literally advertising the
first annual assembly of her midsum
mer Chautauqua. 1t will be in pro-
gress July 20 to August 6.
The people of Labette county paid
$13. 40 for feeding prisoners in the
county Jail during the month of June,
and 1924 to run the poor farm.
One argument in favor of mastering
the Kansas boys out of service at San
Francisco is that General Funstons
travel pay would be s1,595.7 6.
Nobody will doubt that Ottawa is
just the place for Chautauqua since
baker at that place filed an order
for 500 cookies in forty-fve minutes
1t is proper for the towns in Kansas
to initiate Kansas City in everything,
with the exception of permitting the
growth of weeds within the municipal
limits.
1t will be all right to hold a celebra-
ton at Topeka in 1904 in honor of the
fiftieth anniversary of the organiza-
ton of the state of Kansas, but it will
take money.
Captain Cuchan, of Shawnee county,
who recently passed an examination
for commission in the regular army
made good grades. His general aver
age was 95 per cent.
An Atchison bride went to see sick
man who couldn't come to her we'd
ding, before she changed her bridal
gown. The invalid was almost as
glad to see the wedding finery as the
bride was to display it.
If the Marshall county farmer who
found big balloon in his cornfield
will convert it into tarpaulin to COW
err over his threshing machine, and
will not yield to the overwhelming
temptation to give exhibitions in
aerial navigation, no harm will be
done.
Cheap Rates to Pacific Coast via Santa Fe.
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 $9s. s5. For particulars call
on or address, L. R. DELANEY, Agt.,
Wichita, Kans
There is chance for some Kansas
town to get scoop Oh all the others
by laying off golf course. At pres
ent Kansas is almost entirely without
''hazards," but few could easily be
made.
The increase in the deposits in the
367 Kansas state and private banks
since last March is Z million dollars.
The national bank deposits have in
erased an equal amount. This is the
heaviest increase in bank deposits in
the history of the state.
Kansas pays the warden of her pen
itentiary So, 500 per annum out of
which comes his living expenses, and
her penitentlary contains $40 convicts'
Illinois pays the warden of the Joliet
penitentiary, with 1900 prisoners in
his keeping, $4,000 and provides his
living. Minnesota, with $50 convicts,
gives the warden of the Saltwater
prison a salary of $1,000 and his liv-
ing
A larger percentage of Kansas peo-
pie are out of debt today than ever be-
fore in the history of the state.
coyote with hair only on one side
was captured in Pratt county recently.
This is said to be a sign of coming
warm winter.
Nearly every Kansas man who sits
out on the back porch and watches
thunderstorm with the ragged light
ming tearing the air all around him,
believes that if he is going to be struck
he will be struck and that's an end to
it
Cherokee county youth lost S11 on
the paddock graft few days ago. This
is the same old scheme that nearly
caused riot in the ark the third day
out from port, but it seems to work
pretty well yet
The sole ration given the southern
negroes who are being shipped into