The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1899-03-17
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The wheat over the state 10 looking
we'll
Everybody seems anxiously await
the coming of spring.
The Topeka Elks have given an en-
tertainment, playing Romeo and Jul
liet.
Pittsburg has the right kind of clay
handy and is reaching for pottery
plant. r.. -
The Hanover Modern Woodmen will
erect a large building by means of the
lottery plans
Linn county jointists are jumping
sideways on account of the prospect OF
grand jury.
Mound City's high school goes on
the list of those whose graduates are
entitled to enter the State University.
People who are not posted concern
ing Kansas might infer from ali this
discussion concerning the condition OF
the,peach buds that the state depends
on the peach trees to carry her people
from one season to the next We have
other resources.
Louis Strohle, single man living
near Manchester, O. T., has committed
suicide on his claim. His mind was
disordered and he claimed that his
neighbors had poisoned his well. lie
shot. himself in the temple. His par
ents live at! Nickerson, Kan.
Ever since 1885 Miss Franceo Wilson
has held the position of assistant treas.
urer of Allen county. This long term
of service tells how well her work is
done. Miss Wilson is the daughter OF
prominent farmer whose home is near
Humboldt.
Cheap Excursion Rates via Santa Fe Route
State Encampment, G. A. R., Sons OF
Veterans, Woman's Relief Corps, La
dies of G. A. R. and Ladies Aid Socie-
ties, held at Hutchinson, Kansas, April
24-3o; one fare for the round trip.
Tickets on sale April 2427, good to re-
turn on and including May 1st.
l.. r. DELANEY, Agent
Orders have been received by the
officials of the United States peniten-
tiary at Fort Leavcnworth not to ad-
nit any more prisoners from Indian
and Oklahoma territories while small
pox exists in that country. Prisoners
sentenced to the federal penitentiary
will be held in the territories until all
danger of the dreadful disease is over
before being transferred
The Bulletin says that it begins to
look as though a certain Florence min
lister would leave the town with
good portion of his salary unpaid. If
he has followed the ministry for any
great length of time, the experience is
probably not a new one for him. A
good many people appear to think that
ministers should work for nothing
Just because salvation is free.
Excursion Rates via Santa Fe Route.
On Jan. II and Feb. and 81, March
z and 21, the Santa Fe will sell round
trip tickets at the very cheap rate of
one fare plus $500 to all points in
Arkansas, Arizona, Indian Territory,
New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas.
These tickets will bear going limit,
with stop-over privileges of fifteen
days, final return limit 81 days from
date of sale Before purchasing tick
cts, you will do well to call on some
representative of the road that reaches
all points of Importance 1.-The Great
Santa Fe"
w. j. BLACK, G. P. A.,
Topeka, Kans.
There will be three renditions of
1.-THE Messiah" at Lindsborg this year:
March 30, March 81 and April 2.
A western Kansas man melted his
rollers while trying to warm them
into condition for use during the cold
SPELL The ordinary reader may not
appreciate what an accident like this
amounts to in a country print shop.
A printer with his rollers melted has
the same cheerful layout in view that
confronts a shipwrecked sailor cast
ashore on barren crag with no grub,
no clothes, no whisky, no hope.
A Dickinson county farmer hauls
hay to town on rack that is painted
red, white and blue.
Mankato wants to have public Ii
brary. The people of that town think
that if Cawker can support one, they
certainly ought to be able to do so. If
there are as many hustling ladies in
Mankato as there are in Cawker the
project will go all right. The bulk of
the credit for maintaining the excel
lent library which for years has been
the boast of Cawker belongs to the
ladies of that town.