The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1903-03-27
CAN HAVE THEM By ASKING. 1t has

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been frequently stated that Kansas
farmers who wish to receive the bulle-
tins issued by the state experiment.
station at Manhattan can have them
merely by asking for them, but 1t APP
pears that there are many who do not
know this. The best stock breeders
and farmers OF the state speak in terms
of high praise of the work done at the
station. 1t is practical, and as these
bulletins tell of the results that are at
tanned they are sure to be helpful to
those who study them.
TAKING NO CHANCES. The business
men of the state will take no chances
and they are now packing up their slot
machines to ship to some other state
where there is demand for them and
! where they are not outlawed. The
most of them will go to Colorado and
| Nebraska. Some will go to Oklahoma
and Texas. 1t is estimated that there
| are nearly 10000 slot machines in the
StaIe az tllS tihc, ooou0 navy ~
| loads.
YIN. C. A. CORNER SToNE.-Presi-
| dent Roosevelt wired from Washington
that he would be unable to lay the cor
| nerstone of the new building of the
railroad Y. M. G. A. at Topeka ON
May 9. Miss Helen Gould will be at
the corner stone laying, however, and
the railroad men believe that the cerea
mony will draw thousands of people to
Topeka.
SPANISH WAR VETERANS. Over 500
Spanish American soldiers are drawing
pensions from the Topeka pension
agency. They are coming in at the
rate of about twenty-five month now.
In addition to this number about 200
widows and orphans of Spanish Amer
lean soldiers are now on the pension
rolls.
IRRIGATION EXPERIMENTS Congress
man Reeder has received positive as
surances from the agricultural depart
ment that it will begin making irriga-
ton experiments in western Kansas
this spring under the provisions of the
new irrigation law. Reeder wants
several wells sunk in his district
BANKERS AssoCIATIoN.-The Clay
Center Commercial club is making ar
engagements to entertain the Bankers
association of that section of the state
on April &c. A banquet will be given.
The meetings of the association will be
held in the court house A large at
tendance is expected.
PROVIDED FOR CLERK HIRE.-The
legislature did this for the registers of
deeds at the rate of 81 900 year.
Heretofore those officers paid their
clerks out of their fees. This bill is
likely to make the Office of register of
deeds in Shawnee county worth $4,000
to $4,000 year
FRED DoLD HURT.-While testing u
nail machine in the box factory at the
Dold packing plant in Wichita, Fred
Dold's right hand was caught in the
machinery and painfully injured before
it could be extracted.
PECK's BILL KILLED. -Candidates
must continue to file a statement of
their election expenses with the county
clerk. PeclS's bill to do away with
that feature of the law was defeated.
OUT OF BANKs.-The Republican
river at Clay Center ran over farms
again, with some danger of making
new channel. The water all comes
from the western part of the state.
WANT THAT FJREBUe.-T people
of Kingman have offered reward of
81, 900 for the apprehension of firebug
who has been making hot times in that
town.
Two CARLoADs.-A Washington
special says that Senator Burton with
in one week sent two cars of govern
lnGuI bCCu W hdhooo iOi NAoeAAOotiOh'
COUNTY HIGH School. This is ex-
pected to be acquired by the city of
Nickerson.
DRUNK Oh SoBER-By verdict Of a
jury in the district court of Saline
county man is responsible for finan-
cial obligation he may make whether
drunk or sober. He had signed a bond
for man arrested for cattle stealing
who jumped the bond, and the bonds
man claimed that he was drunk when
he signed the bond.
HYDRoPHoBIA.-Ther was a fatal
case of this dread disease in Wabaun-
see county lately. The thirteen-year-
old daughter of w. T. Smarle was its
victim.
AN OLD CLAIM PAID.-Mrs. Martha
Gallop, of Beloit, has been awarded
S223. 60 by the government for property
destroyed in an Indian raid through
Mitchell county in 1865. Here is one
~ tha ;tannS. A niace of txyantv wards