The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1899-01-06
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREsT.

of wheat this year.
What Kansas needs more than any
timing else is intermarriage with rae
with less hysteria.
It is difficult in the whole state Il
find a single woman who believes tina
John Collins was guilty.
A Central Branch locomotive engi
neer has quit the road and is now pres
ident of bank at Corning.
Most of the corn cribs in Kansas arc
filed to their fullest capacity at The
present time 1t is of a mighty good
quality, too
Oklahoma and southern Kansas are
soon to be in close touch through a tel
ephone system. And that is mighty
good thing.
A wealthy Atchison county farmer,
who lives south of Atchison, is organ
izing band. Look out and stand
from under.
w. II. Haskell of Gaylord feeds
daily 500 worth of corn to cattle and
hogs he is fitting up for the market a
little later on.
An exchange says the only wonder
about the fast mail up to date is that a
big freight train has not come up be-
hind il and smashed it.
great many of the people who be-
lieve that Collins was guilty also hold
that his step-mother knew he was the
man who fired the shot.
There is never modern wedding in
Kansas where presents are received at
all that silver berry bowl doesn't fig
ure, and almost always as the piece de
resistance.
The stay-at-tent vote among the col
ored boys of Kansas in Cuba is suffi-
cient indication that the American cit
izen when his vote is going to be mi
croscopically counted, prefers not to
vote.
The most intelligent witness that
has appeared in the Collins murder
case so far is girl of twilight COM
plexion named Kitty Smothers. The
ablest lawyer in the case couldn't rat
tie her.
Christmas day there was rumor all
over Kansas that John Collins had
committed suicide. Tie rumor was
broadcast simply because it occurred
to people in widely distanced places to
tell the same lie.
The business of the Hutchinson and
Southern railway in Oklahoma has in
creased so much that two new trains,
passenger and a freight, will be add
ed to the service. Medford is now the
southern terminus.
Some Kansas men should learn from
Eobson the little lesson that farce
comedy does for the stage, but it can
not be attached to man who is |
knocking about the world in a per-
fectly human way, with safety.
Missouri and Kansas are gradually
the interior department.
Hitchcock is from Missouri. Tom
Ryan is from Kansas and Webb Davis
from Missouri. Harrison started it
with Noble Cleveland switched off to
Georgia for Hoke Smith once.
Bounties on wolf scalps vary greatly
in many Kansas counties, and a COM
mon game is for hunters who kill
wolves to cash the scalp where they
can get the most for them, regardless
CT where the game is killed. In
Franklin county the bounty has been
reduced to such fignre that this bun
co game will not be worked there any
more.
]. W. Gillett. hardware and imple-
ment dealer, has turned over his bust
ness at Woodbine to his creditors.
Gillett is a brother of Grant C. Gillett,
the absconding cattle king, and held
100000 worth of cattle paper issued
by his brother. The cattle which j.
W. Gillett supposed he owned have
been found to have been mortgaged to
others. His assets are placed at $780, /
BOO. {
A great deal of roaring has been
heard in Kansas on account of "hard
lines" On account of two crop fail !
1res in succession in province in g
China, thousands and thousands of q
people are dying of starvation, the G
leath rate having reached $50 In one t
lay from this cause. Kansans should '
hank the Lord that never yet have {
hey been up against hard times of a
his nature. The inability to get the S
pest there is in the market, with thea /
er tickets at will, starts the cry of c
hard times with two many Kan g
ans. (
Mrs. Kittic Bawl, colored woman
# Lyon county, is dead, aged "a. She t