The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1877-08-09

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Business unusually good, for TIE past week Graf
of all kinds coming in, and fair prices paid by GU
dealers
A. J. Mowry, the aComanche Chief will not NOV
his family to Severance. Andy says he wants good
sure thing in the way Of business before he leave
his Palermo friends. 50
| The rain, Sunday night, has done an immen.
amount Of good to the corn crop in this section.
H." in last weeks items from Elwood. seems Z,
think that We blame the ..prUprieter.r of the dyke
for the way s.Big Muddy does business. No sucl
thing vas intended. We appe,s the Bridge Gonna
ny (proprietors) hire the hest engineering talent the,
get but that does not alter the fact that the ry
er still cutting away the bankS We arc willing
acknowledge that the dykes "stand firm but We dc
say that has taken lots Of hard work to keen the
river from going around the dykes and leaving them
in the middle of the river, monument to engineer
ing skill But the dykes saved and the eredi,
of that is solely due to the energy of Sheridan Bros
who worked hard teven ON Sunday to prevent such
disaster. We think the Bridge Company is doing
the best it knows how but We will say now, as we
have said before, that too much engineering is
what's the matter with the ST. Joe. Bridge Company.
Mr.. Kohn, timer, was taken sick. the other
day, but after he had taken seven plates of SOUP
quart OF bttNeQ Anu pint OF wnlskoy,
besides having his wife fan him all day. he felt bet
ter.
Fred. Prizing got terribly sick, the other day-so
sick that he had to get man attend to his bust.
ness Then Fred went off to his .jularkey,- and
well in less than no time.
The man who escaped from Marshal Dunlap, as
mentioned in the BuRets, was not the Marshal
prisoner. He was arrested State warrant, sworn
out by Pat Britt, of Hiawatha, and was left in Mr.
Dunlap's charge, while the Constable hunted for a
team, to take him to Troy, the telegram from At
Gibson directed to turn the prisoner TO the Sher
if The man jumped ont .f the second story window
of the hotel and no bames Mr. Dunlap for the
occurrence.
Clarence Livermore got into row with his father,
day last week, and struck the old gentleman on
the head with stick of wood, inflicting a painful
though not serious wound.
-Four five of our citizens went to st. Joe. Mon
day,) and their return, when the bridge, got
into quarrel. ''Lath," says the blood shed in the
encounter is splashed halfway to the top of tho
bridge.
Two County bridges in this vicinity, bear the in
scription: $500 fine for riding driving this
bridge faster then walk" Where, oh! where is the
schOOmasteri
Grain business good New wheat coming in rapid
ly, and prices ranging high.
w. ID Cook, an old Wathena boy, paid his parents
VISIT last week. "Billy" travels the Hannibal r. X.
for d. n. Steele & Co.
II. A. Doekhorn has sold 1900 feet of native lum-
Der, this season. Last week, he shipped ear loads
the West Retails ut sl4 per N. at the yards-spe
cial rates by car load.
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al old bills allowed-among them, that of W. 7.
Stewart for printing.
The ID. c. Road is fitting our popular agent, Arlie
Swearingen, up in style. New platform, tele
graph instruments, and everything else conducive to
the comfort of an agent.
We don't want to brag about what eat; but
got good dinner at Jos. Williams, of Smithton, yes
terday, tuesday, and Joe didn't know wrote for
the paper, either.
Street Commissioner Dunlap has been putting in
stone crossings all the principal streets.
Charley Nahrung's baby, little months
DID, died last Saturday, and was buried Sunday.
Our thanks are due the route agents on the Denver
Road for favors.
The Burr-Oak road between Mike Foley's and Mr..
Hollands is nearly impossible. Give us good roads,
Mr.. Trustee.
Some boys have been stealing Mr.. POirier's fruit.
He knows who it is, and will have warrant out for
the parties, if they go into his orchard again.