The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1899-08-25

court HouDc ior Uedry county.
There are in Kansas banks in indi-
vidual deposits subject to check, $40,
612, O26. 49,
The total number of convicts sent to
the Kansas penitentiary since it open
ed is $1,000
Everybody will perceive the proprie-
ty of building big creamery in Cot
fey county.
Nothing seems to have been shrive'-
ed in Kansas this year but the delin-
quent tax lists
This year in Kansas patch of corn
fifteen feet long and fifteen feet wide
forms perfect cube.
No one can doubt that it pays to be
pious, since a clergyman won quilt
at rattle in Leavenworth.
A watermelon carnival, with Incl
dentel vaudeville features, is absorb
ing public enterprise at Clyde.
| Since the day of the first record in
Kansas there has never been time
when Kansas was as green on August
10 as it is today.
The jointists at Topeka are. becom-
ing bold, but no enough so to keep
their beer on ice and serve it in pro-
fessional manner
Leavenworth Pythians are prepar-
ing to show visiting members good
time during the encampment and
brigade meeting there September 1914.
Former residents of Ohio now living
in Franklin held reunion at Ottawa
recently. The association was organ
lied in 1897, and now has loo MEM
bcrs
The managers of the state tennis
tournament in Topeka are out $750
which means that there will never be
another meeting of that kind at the
state capitol
Many old veterans at the Leaveh-
worth Soldiers home are cultivating
little gardens which bring them in
small sums for onions, cucumbers, to-
matoes and melons.
For the benefit of the solicitors and
canvassers of various kinds, it is prop
err to state that the name of the Atch-
ison man who recently bought ZIG
bulldogs, is John Stein.
The trouble which the family club
at Topeka is having to find a name is
very small matter as compared with
the time it will have when it begins
to hunt around for a cook.
A carload of sea lions went through
Kansas the other day. Each was box
ed in a crate. They came from San
Francisco, and were being sent to
Paris for the exposition. They are
fed on fish and are standing the trip
we'll.
Have you ever noticed it? Whenever
person leaves his old home and
strikes job anywhere it is always
said that he has secured a good posi-
ton" He may be only holding down
a place as conductor on a garbage
wagon, but at his home it is said that
he has secured good position.
Three nieces of a man who was lost
when the Bourgogne went down have
offered purse of $50, 900 to the person
who invents the best method of saw
ing life at sea. The offer is made as a
just be like some one out here on the
Kansas prairies to walk off with the
prize.
Cheap Rates to Pacific Coast via Santa Fo.
The Santa Fe are selling tickets to
San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego
and other California points at the very
cheap rate OF $780,
To Portland and points in Idaho and
Oregon S2s.s IS. For particulars call
on or address, L. r. DELANEY, Agt,
Wichita, Kans
Topeka is to have a new electric
light and gas company.
There is joke on Jewell county
farmer There was so much fine black
pigweed seed in his wheat that he
sifted 1t, taking out three bushels to
the wagon load. He wondered where
the profit came in, though when he
found that his wheat tested two BUSH
els lighter after sitting than it did be-
fore. The little black seed is heavy
and lies between the kernels of wheat,
making it weigh much heavier per
bushel
A dozen or more girls of the Sol
diers' Orphans home in Atchison have
formed u brass band.
1t is not generally known that the
Highland Presbytery, which includes
Horton, is now maintaining a mission
airy in the Kickapoo, Pottawatomie
and Sac reservations. They tax each
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