The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1899-03-10

The Kansas colored troops will 500
be quartered at Fort Leavenwort
again.
A Dickinson county man manufa'
lures merry-go-rounds and shootin
gallery outfits.
A Ness county man last week caugh
big bald eagle in u trap he had sc
out for coyotes.
Occasionally venison gets on tn
market in towns in the southwest poi
ton of the state.
In a number of Kansas towns tbi
season measles trotted heat only sec
ond to the grip
Tho supreme court at Washington
has held that n sooner is q sooner
whether an old soldier or not
Deposits in the two banks at juno
ton City at the time of making thu
last statement, exceeded a quarter o.
million dollars.
The Advocate claims that Mankate
is freer from cigarettes than any Other
town of its size in the state. BE is sale
to the everlasting credit of the place.
Clinton Irwin, the new judge of Ok
lahoma is fat and Irish. He will
probably get into the swim at once,
remarks a prominent Kansas newspa'
per-
The Twentieth Kans as, which has
been doing the butt of the fighting
around Manila, got the butt end of the
joshing given the troops before they
left this country.
A Brown county man says that
chickens that roost in catalpa trees
will not be troubled with mites. The
nan who volunteers this information
las catalpa trees to sell.
Country schools are closing and the
teachers will now have time and op
to spend the money boarded
Turing the winter from their lavish
lverage salary of twenty-four dollars
/ month.
The state of Kansas owes Leaven.
worth more than any other county for
are of insane; $40, $3.50 The small
st sum, S2i3o, is due Wilson county.
About forty counties have no claim OF
his nature.
The Frisco will enlarge it's yards at
ialena. Kansas is edging forward
apidly, but there is no section of the
tate that is getting there any more
apidly or in better shape than the
mining district.
This is whooping season for the
ecret societies One at Abilene has
orty applications on file. Another at
berlin has thirty under considera-
ion; and at the last meeting of an Or
err at Netawalla eleven candidates
yere initiated. From other towns all
yer the state the same story comes.
Letters from Kansas boys telling OF
he fight in the Philippines ought to
egin to show up before long. There
ave been some mighty interesting
etters from there published in the
.ansas papers, but those telling of the
ght in which the lads of the TWEEN
eth were mixed up will be the ban.
CIR ones of all.
Excursion Rates via Santa Fe Route.
On Jan. II and Feb. z and 81, March
and 81, the Santa Fe will sell round
zip tickets at the very cheap rate of
ne fare plus 81. to all points in
rkansas, Arizona, Indian Territory,
'ew Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas.
hese tickets will bear going limit,
18th stop-over privileges of fifteen
avs, final return limit 81 days from
ate of sale. Before purchasing tick
Is, you will do we'll to call on some
preventative of the road that reaches
il points of Importance THE Great
anita Fe.
w. j, BLACK, G. P. A.,
Topeka, Kans.
A man struck Alton last week for
lie purpose of opening a joint lie
however, that it is useless
II him to do so as long as the boot
ggers are permitted to do business.
The waterworks question was fought
tterly at Mankato, but the bonds
lrried Now there is more trouble.
II those who voted for the bonds arc
-mly of the belief that the well
hich has been sunk will furnish an
lequate supply of water, while those
no opposed the question are equally