The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1899-06-09
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.


cuught on at Girard
A bad girl dressed up in male attire
and paraded the streets of Fort Scott.
1t cost her SIG.
Everything is making very rapid
growth in Kansas and the ground is
filled with moisture.
A Neosho county farmer last week
marketed a couple of hogs, one weigh
ing $50 and the other $50 pounds.
This is the proper time to attend
church strawberry socials." Berries
are cheap and the dishes are generally
large
Coffeyville felt very proud before OF
her paper mill and her pottery; but
now the capacity of both plants are to
be doubled.
Since Frank Grimes was elected
state treasurer Leoti has blossomed
out with brass band the only one in
Wichita county.
Four Indians robbed man in Brown
county. Watch for a story in the
eastern papers concerning the Indian
uprising in Kansas"
A Cloud county woman is 90 years
old and has seventy-four grandchild-
rem. She was born III days after
George Washington died.
Sergeant Hull, recently discharged
from the Seventh cavalry, has pur-
chased a plantation in Cuba and will
be Joined soon by his wife who is now
at Fort Riley.
What is science when it comes to
law? West, assistant attorney gener-
al, has thrown CONSERVATION among
the scientists by announcing that
natural gas is not mineral. 1t is gas
An Osborne atty man who weighs
only 135 pounds won $50 last week by
carrying $50 pounds of flour three
miles without putting it down. And
then he offered to bet $40 more that
he could go another mile without any
rest
Stanley knows what idleness does
and it was on that basis that he has
decided that he would issue condi-
tional pardon only when friends of the
convict will promise permanent en-
ployment to the convict upon his re-
lease.
1t is being told that Pratt county
mans wife returned from long visit
east and found her husband so fat that
she could not understand it until she
began to investigate and found that
he used starch instead of soda in max
ing his biscuits.
A Sedgwick county bred America
merinos fleece of twelve months and
sixteen days growth weighed fifty-two
pounds, and surpassed the worlds
record of seven and one-half pounds.
The sheep sheared as two-year-old
thirty-seven and one half pounds.
The increase in the county's popula-
ton to over $4,000, as shown by the
assessors returns, puts Sumner in a
higher class as regards the salaries of
county officers under the general fee
and salary act of the last Legislature.
Heretofore the county has been rated
in the class of $50, 900 population and
less than 25,O0O," for whose officers
certain salaries are prescribed By
getting into the class above nearly all
the county officers get the benefit of a
raise of from 500 to $50 in pay, and
in addition a nice increase in clerk
hire goes to the county clerk and
treasurer
There isn't a town in the state where
the movements of visiting railroad
official is noted more closely than at
Atchison.
There is a roar in Kansas on account
of lack of workmen. 1t is better
than the roar of few years ago on
account of lack of work.
The New York papers, poor credu-
lous souls, are now running pictures
of handsome Kansas girls ploughing
in the fields to fill the places left va
cant by their brothers, fighting in the
Philippines.
Junction City has gained 300 inhabi-
tants during the past year.
In Grant county last week a lobe
wolf killed two calves John Stuart
and Howard Maxwell took out after
it and after chase of seven miles
killed the wolf and received SIS for its
scalp.
1t is generally admitted that the per
is mightier than the sword, but the
ink well is no slough when properly
handled An eastern Kansas man haC
his skull crushed in by one which wa
hurled at him this week.
A Lincoln county man offers re
ward to anyone who will reveal t.