The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-07-28
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In the ''stiIly night bctvixt Tuesday evening
| and Wednesday morning of last week. many OF our
citizens were recipients OF handsome serenade
! from some mysterious band Of MINISTRIES Our sur
mise about the affair il, that it sort of
Highland fling"
Harry Bell, Of Maryville, No., has been making
weeks visit to old and associations OF this
place. EnvioIs tongues whisper that bright eyes
and peculiar attractions the cause Of Harrys
visit. but we know better. The young man has
tender heart, and came away from Maryvie, tok keep
from seeing the Talbot boys hanged
Craderick Stepney, colored lad OF about sixteen,
and of Moses Stepney. was drowned. while bath
ing IN the river last Sunday, near the Tom Lease
hollow. We believe no special effort made to
recover his body, a., when goes down in the
Missouri. he is as efeetually swallowed up though
he were los. in the Ocean This is the second son
Mr.. Stepney has had drowned; the other having met
his fate in the wrecking of the Dels, above White
Cloud, something over two years ago.
The dry spell continues, and farmers daily be-
coming more apprehensiye about the corn crop.
However, there are localities which to be fa-
vored as for instance, the valley of Cedar Creek
drenched with eopious rain, last Sunday even
ing Wonder if they don't pray, down there, great
deal more than they do in White Cloud or out ON
the high prariei
Cyrus Watson, Junior, has been seriously i'll, for
some days. and will probably he dead before this
item gets into print.
Sadie and Willie Patch, of Des Moines Iowa. are
paying their animal visit to White Cloud friends.
The entire family of Mr.. Zerah C. Blskely,
sistins of himself. wife, and two children, prs-
trated with sort of bilious malarial fever.
Mrs BIS. illness is thought TO be quite critical.
Blaekberries the fruit present in vogue. but
owing TO the dry weather, the supply is not alum
dant
1t is said that the first thing the farmers of the
back country do after eating their breakfast every
morning, is go out to the corn-feld and examine
whether Of corn has not been whacke,l down.
and string of pegs, crossed with cablaistic keel
marks, struck up. Railroads.
Our delegation Of pedagogues arc very busy
ming to and fro, fixing for the Institute. Depend
upon it, they will every last Of them do their
utmost toward taking that dull edge off of Troy,
during their months sojourn.
Corn is up-that is in price and great deal is
rolling in.
The mysteries of the big pond at the west end of
the corporation have been many. Strangers used to
stop and marvel at the sphon spanning the hill, and
carrying the water up hill ghosts frequently
bobbins around in the neghborhOod, after nightfall
and another marvel to the passcr-by is pen of
barbcd wire in the midst of the pond. We have
inquired into the matter and learn that the csntri
vance is patent frog pen. No frog in the kingdom
can stand ban bed wire jaggers.
The new Mission house on the Reservation is
imposing ediiee, and when Maj Kent eontrived it,
no doubt he intended it the GROWING act Of his
official career, and thought he adding attrac-
tons that would bind his wards to their odd home
stead. But we learn that many of the Indians do
not appreciate the Majors coutrivences, but still