The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1899-03-31

A Kansas minister got buncoed in
New York few days ago.
All of the insane of Harvey county
are now inmates of state institutions
Arbor day will be here soon. In
Kansas every day in the proper season
for tree planting should be considered
Arbor day.
The proper form of venting malice
at present is to have your enemy ar
rested on criminal charge. Kansas
is doing it's share of this, which is ma
tion-wide.
Two decent Topeka girls, very young
and very pretty, were enticed away
from home by Kansas City woman OF
notoriety The old woman will be
prosecuted
This beef investigation has settled
one thing beyond dispute, and that
is that canned roast beef and canned
boiled beef are exactly the same, save
and except the label on the outside of
the can, is the filed report of the Law
renee journal.
Every once in while new mineral
story comes from western Kansas.
The gold find in Trego county story
got fresh boost few days ago, and
about the same time it was reported
that vein of copper had been discov-
ed in Russell county.
Kansas people say there will be no
warm weather until the snow in Colo
RADIO melts. Colorado people say that
the snow in Colorado will not disap-
pea-' until we have warm weather in
Kansas If both are right, winter
will last all summer.
1t is said that fly confidence men and
crooks of all kinds from the larger
cities in the east are flocking to the
towns in the mining districts of south
ern Kansas, attracted there by the
stories of the plentitude of money,
which they will try to graft" into
their own clothes.
c. E. Anderson, of Westmoreland,
who is a member of the Twentieth
Kansas, says that he has been vaccina-
ted four times since arriving at Manila,
but in no instance did it take" He
says he believes now that he is proof
against anything in the disease line
that may come his way.
The futile family near Window, in
Mcpherson county, has more small
pox. The two children now have the
disease. They are broken out with it
and very sick. The authorities have
had some trouble in persuading Mr..
futile to obey the quarantine. He
went down to Window a few days
ago, and, when it was learned that
his children had taken sick, the re-
marks made about him were anything
but eulogistic
An Enoch Arden story is stirring
Leavenworth. Three years ago +. E.
Harrison married 20-year-old Leav-
enworth girl. He stole and was sent
to prison. She thought she was free
and married a man named Wilson.
Harrison was let out the other day
and appeared at Wilson's home for his
wife. She decided that she belonged
to Harrison, and left with him, though
Wilson was the better husband and
she says she loved him more than the
first man.
The democratic state executive COM
mittee who have charge of the big
state banquet which is to be held at
Topeka on March 30, have announced
that it is absolutely necessary for
those who wish to attend this ban
quet to obtain their tickets immedi-
ately or they will be unable to get
them. The committee has to have
time to make arrangements and those
who wait until these arrangements
are completed, will positively be una
BILE to gain admission to the banquet
hall.
A citizen of Chapman, aged 81, died
died few days ago; the result of an
attack of measles.
Enough business has been transact
ed at the Hiawatha postoffice the past
year to make it an Office of the sec
ond class.
In great many Kansas towns it is
said that the women are paying but
little attention to registration. How
can the women be expected to bother
about registration when the spring
millinery openings are in full blast in
every town in the land?
Reports in weekly papers concern
ing the chinch bugs all agree that the
cold weather left these pests in very
dead condition.
Ed Howe says that spring does not
really arrive until mothers begin to
appear at the gates evenings and