The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1899-05-12

interstate commerce now If it wants
to, by shipping its surplus supply OF
cyclone cellars to Missouri.
A Baptist preacher in Marion county
eloped a few nights ago with another
mans wife, This is the first stain IN
moral history of Marion county for
several years
The executive council, it is said, has
decided to abolish the office of state
architect and divide his salary among
newly created places for architects,
one at each state institution.
Evidently that Kansas man accused
of operating moonshiner's still is not
onto the ways of the state. A still is
not necessary in the manufacture OF
whisky which is sold in Kansas.
N. F. Frazier, the wealthiest man in
Butler county, and his associates, have
taken a charter q ter. leased room a ND will
start state bank as soon as the nee
essary arrangements can be made.
Within less than AS hours last week
a Barber county cattleman lost 80
head of stock, and it has been impossi-
BILE to locate the cause. 1t is either
new disease or foul play has been per-
petrated by somebody.
An Atchison county young woman
wants credit for industry because she
has just finished ''piecing" a quilt
which is made up of 5000 pieces. Just
as like as not, though, her little broth
er has to resort to the use of horse
shoe nails, string and fish hooks in or
der to keep his pants in position.
The directors of the penitentiary
will award contracts for the machin-
cry for the binding Irvine plant at
their meeting at Lansing. The plant
will not be in operation in time for the
of Irvine for this years
crop. Much of the machinery vii
have to be manufactured, and it won't
be ready for delivery before August
George Cox, an ex-convict was ar
rested at Lansing last week while Wis
iting old prison comrades at the Kan
sas penitentiary. He is charged with
stealing money orders from the Wells
Fargo Express company at Hasberg,
Mo. One of the stolen orders for $35
was cashed few days ago at Galena
Kansas.
At the last conference of the miners
and operators of the Pittsburg district
several of the operators agreed not to
ship any coal into the territory of the
stiking miners until a settlement can
be effected. A resolution was adopted
that all miners, officials and operators
present at the the meeting ask the OPP
orators whose miners are on strike
in the Indian Territory, by joint
letter, to meet the miners officials in a
conference in that city to discuss and
settle, if possible, the existing differ
ences.
The members of the G.. A. R. de-
partment of Kansas, living west of the
center of population of said state, feel
that in years past they have been
by the department officers
and have been left to shift for them
selves. And during all that time have
had the short grass" business heaped
upon them partly humorously-often-
er scandalously-and belonging to
class who live by depending upon
them, have agreed that the only way
by which they can attend reunion is
to have one of their own and have con-
cluded to create an association which
shall take in for its territory all that
part of Kansas lying west of line
running north and south, east of
county.
A great many of the spring gradu-
ates are taking a whack at the expan.
sion problem.
The fact that Galena man one day
this week fell to the bottom of fifty
foot shaft while carrying growler of
beer and did not spill a drop, will be
heralded to the world as an illustra-
ton of the tenacious grip a man in
state maintains on some
thing to drink when he gets it in his
possession; but the incident really il
lustrates the faculty that the man
from Kansas has of falling on his feet.
Here and there a Kansas farmer
bobs up to brag about the fine APP
pearance of his corn which is begin
ming to push up through the ground.
A vast acreage of corn has been
planted this spring. The farmers ex-
pect big corn crop this year. Many
IF the farmers expert big crop this
season.
The Hutchinson reformatory has
been in operation something like four
years with inmates averaging more
than 100 In the entire time there
have been but two death.