The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1899-01-27
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

waterworks system for Wamego.
Three Clifton crap shooters turned
S1s each into the city treasury the 9th
er day.
The superintendent of the Morris
county poor farm draws salary OF
$500 year.
Coffeyville has just put $500 more
into additional efficiency for its volun-
teer fire department.
The ice harvest in Kansas this sea-
son is as satisfactory as the grain har-
vest of the past year.
Take the state over and the register
Of deeds is the county officer who is
making the money these days.
The net reduction of mortgage in
aebtedness in Ellsworth county for the
year 1898 amounted to Sl9s, o64.
The Santa Fe had twelve freight
crews running out of Emporia at this
time last year. Now it has nineteen.
An Ottawa man is the owner of pin
of common size on the head of which
every letter of the alphabet is en-
graved.
Leavenworth has worry. Some
body in a sheet and false face has
told Leavenworth that it may lose its
military post.
The independence Tribune claims
that there is good road overseer in
Montgomery county; so good that he
is now serving his eleventh year in
that capacity.
The poor farm in Osborne county is
money maker for the county. The
humble hog is largely responsible for
the showing on the right side of the
ledger.
Wichita is having dream about ex-
tending the st. Louis, Kansas e. South
ern railroad into the Usage country
and making the Usage country buy all
It's supplies at Wichita.
There is considerable county print
ing trouble in the air just at present
1t will lash away for few weeks and
then die down until the time rolls
around for the contracts to be let
again.
BARRIERS of Ellsworth have refused
to work on Sunday. There is really
no reason why barber should be ex-
pected to work on this day which is to
the great majority of the people day
of rest.
Since the year 1871 the probate
Judges of Sumner county have issued
1924 marriage licenses For the past
two years the business has increased
25 per cent. The recent judge issued
449 marriage licenses during his term
of two years.
Orville Parker, one of the boys of the
Twentieth Kansas, writing from Ma
Mia to his folks at Coffeyville, says
that he pays five cents dozen for ban
anas, gets six oranges for nickel, fif-
teen or twenty cigarettes for two
cents, while cigars are rated at half
a cent, or a cent apiece; and the cigars
and cigarettes, he says, are made out
of real tobacco.
Ottawa's commercial club is pulling
on string for the purpose of getting
big hotel for the town so that it will
be in shape to make bids for conven-
tions of respectable size. The Kansas
City scheme, with variations, is being
considered. That Kansas City scheme
is worse than the loco weed. One man
has already thrown a hundred dollar
government bond into the pot.
Lindsborg is in an industrious COM
munity, and the people there have no
use for drones. A lot of hoboes ap-
peared there the other day, and the
Record says that 'they were met by a
reception committee of Marshal Wall
estedt and hickory club and given a
good start out of town" This style of
reception committee ought to be made
fashionable.
The editor of the Jewell Republican
has lived in the banner corn county of
Kansas long enough to catch on to a
good many things regarding that pro-
duct. He says: 1.-THE great lesson is
again being rubbed in on the Kansas
farmer that he is fool to ever sell
corn at less than % cents per bushel.
If man takes care of his corn the
time always comes when it will bring
him good price This is hard to be-
lieve sometimes when corn is drug at
IL and Is cents bushel, but it is al
ways true"
In compliance with request from
the members of the Anti-Horse Thief
association the commissioners of Sum-
ner county have raised the reward of
fered for the apprehension and convlc-
ton of horse thieves from SIS to $50.