The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1899-06-30
Topeka is to have horse show this

Topeka is to have horse show this
fall.
Corning is after a creamery and
cheese factory.
Blue Rapids has three plaster mills
all of them busy.
There is talk of having two tele-
phone systems in Lawrence.
Within six months telephone ex-
change will be in operation at Phil
lipsbu-g.
The cost of the new Jail at Yelling
ton, exclusive of plumbing and cell
work, will be $12, 457.
Church members at Ottawa are pre-
pairing to stir up renewed interest in
the cause of temperance.
During the month of May Lindsborg
handled 170 car loads of freight, not
counting over 200 tons which was in
less than car lots.
Even if the boys of the Twentieth
don't get home until next winter
there will he hot time in the old
state when they do arrive.
A special agent of the postoflicc de-
partment will visit Ellsworth county
soon, and rural free mail delivery
route may be put in operation.
A real estate dealer from Iowa who
visited Jewell county recently was
greatly mashed on the country. Moth
ing strange about it, though.
The merchants of Spring Hill have
arranged for weekly band concerts
this summer; and Spring Hill is only
a small place of six or seven hundred
inhabitants.
Prof. Dyche will soon start for the
Pacific coast. where he will put in
couple of months collecting sea birds.
The birds may just as well come down.
They're gone, sure.
The Cudahys have placed an order
with the Coffeyville Brick and Tile
company for nine million brick TO be
used in the construction of their new
packing plant at Kansas City
Another whacl at the liberties of
man. At Randall the council passed
an ordinance designed to put quietrs
on the boxing club that was carried
on in the rear of the local barber shop
of that town.
Notices of deaths by drowning have
been quite frequent in the Kansas eX-
changes Of late. There is a facination
about swimming during time of high
water, but harvest of deaths is al
ways the result
The Woodmen of Hanover have
postponed their picnic and drawing
from June 27 and 2S to July 3 and A,
and will unite with the citizens in
celebrating the Fourth by having
their drawing at that time.
An attempt is being made at How
ard to raise fund with which to hire
the band to give concerts this summer.
Other Kansas towns are trying to dc
the same thing. The scheme should
carry. AS a rule the pleasure band
affords its town is away beyond the
encouragement it gets for its efforts
Fort Scott viii probably be able to
show more cash from dog tax payments
than any other town in the state. The
amount now is 1925. One man down.
there is going into court to test the
validity of the ordinance. He says
that lie has right to keep a dog as
protection against burglars; that his
taxes amount to $l3O year and he
has no police protection, as he is new
or able to get a policeman when lie
telephones for one.
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 So so.
To Portland and points in Idaho and
Oregon sos. So. For particulars call
on or address, l.. r. DELANEY, Agt,,
Wichita, Kans
Returns have been received at Nc
Cracker from a car of ore recently
shipped by the Johnson Holiday syn
dictate TO a mill at Florence, Colo The
proprietors maintain the utmost Sc
crecy in regard to the assay. but a
near friend declares that the ore will
yield $40 in gold to the ton and the
assay so shows There is much en-
element over the matter and mine
owners have ordered new and addi-
tional machinery to develop the mine
Other claims will be staked out at
once.
The people of the little town of Peo-
tone, after petitioning and petitioning
have at last had the name changed to
Viola.