The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1878-01-24

4 The Denver HeAHeee eoPany aEs baiIding veg
large water talk stsash Of the depst IN ths p,.ee
spd iutesd putting n n engine to panp Tie water
They claim that the water on the bottom hes IN Il
sediment that scaiss The bsiers, and eauses then 70
burn much sooner than creek water Il viii be IN.
shed this week, and - it is Handsome strueture
viii add so.sthing 10 the appearance of thines 1t
| the depot
The City Fathers waking up to the interests Of
| the city. They are macadami.ng nearly the vhs,e
of the Main Street, and have recently built good
board sidevalks up Doniphnn Street, 70 the Nethe-
dist church, and Bryan Street. to the public
school building, They have had the City Ordinances
reconstructed and cotfed. and appointed q commit
tee to have them all published in pamphlet form.
This ID just what all cities should have done They
viii wake up, some fine morning, with big law suit
their hands, and find, when too late that their Or
dinances void, just rs this city did, when the
committee found that nearly all the important ori-
nances had never been approved by the Mayor We
understand that no incorporated city in the County
has lawful set Of 0r,linances printed in book or
pamphlet form.
The only daughter and child of Mr.. and Nrs. H. D.
Hunt died of diphtheria, in SAINTS Cruz California
Last week. Zula was beautiful, bright and intel-
gent little girl The mother and child left here last
Spring. the mother hoping to regain lost health and
meyer dreaming that the form Of her little one would
be laid away forever the golden shores of the Pa
cifc Ocean. We should rejoice, instead of mourn,
when our friends are where sorrow mover lives, and
friends dcs' taken to rest and forever remoy-
cd from this sin-cursed world.
The Baptist Society of this city under the charge
of Elder Award have been holding protracted
meeting. How long 4 viii continue, this deponent
saith mot.
1t 10 reported that oae Of our steam hoar mills will
soon change hands. or partly 20, by one member of
the firm retiring from the business.
The Red Ribbon has taken wathena by storm A
large number have joined the Club and signed to-
tai abstinence pledge We glad it prosper,
and hope that all viii "stick." Now We want club
With ribbon Of some other color say green with .
pledge that the members will stop lying, slandering
their neighbors, cheating, swindng, and many other
crimes a thousand times worse than drinking glass
Of wine cider We have no faith in these reform
movements that come along like whiriwind, and
are as soon gone Our idea H. that true reform comes
from the sober, determined Judgment of the mind,
and have always thought that the man woman,
society and the State could only be reformed in that
way. Many Of our religious revivals got up in
the same way, when some Of the noisy enes will
shout and tumble round like the athletes in circus
and in ten days after the revival closed could lie the
devil ont of his boots.
Some parties in this vicinity, have been after
WOLF just north Of town. for four five days, and
Monday they were Joined by party of men and dogs
from St. Joseph; but up to this writing Tuesday
EVENING" have failed to capture the animal.
Two or three weeks ago, the report came to wathe
M that there was huge wild animal living in the
river bluffs, just south of Palermo. Just soon as
the report got out everybody in that section Of the
country had seen it, and various the descrip
tons of it. One who it, said ii was noun
tain lion; another said it royal Bengal tiger
another said it looked like gray wolf; another said
it was nothing but raccoOn. One old man, who |
is blind in eye, it Palermo, and insists
that it is nothing less than Gyasticutus and that it
had nine hundred and ninetynine stripes its back
and one ronnd its-touch-him-no he may bite. A
large hunting party, with their hounds, went out
last week. to catch it, but failed to find any trace Of
the
We, like many other towns in this County, have |
had our smallpox scares A young man, living in |
the upper part of town, had attack of pneu
monia and report started that he had the |
smallpox, and that both of our physicians hsd pro-
nounced it bad case. Drs. Winfrey and Carter |
both say that case even symptoms of that foul
disease has ever been known here. Pox has been in |
town for many years, but it is not the small kind.
Every person able to pay for it has been vaccinated
and those who not able, too lazy and indolsnt
60 to the doctorsand get vsccnate e. the expense
Of the County Such people should die Of the small
pox, and that right soon.
Mr. c. Poirier, our wine King. is now in Denver |
City, Colorado for the purpose Of dsposnS of his last
years crop of wine.
Some days ago, persons at the depot in this city,
saw DIR. Herpes, Shingles late of Severance pass
ng east on the passenger train. He had shotgun /