The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1882-06-08
Prairie Grove Items.

Al. Williams is breaking prairaie for Jake Stout.
We are informed that this young man soon intend.
to go to Troy, for marriage license.
Jim Gray, too, is busy turning over the sod Of his
farm.
We learn that Jim Stewart will soon go to Mis-
souri,, where he will get situation in a telegraph
Office.
Some thief stole Tom Joyce's meat out of his
smoke-house, Monday night. A good policy would
be to keep the smoke-houses locked.
Cherries are ripe. The frost did some harm to
the blossoms but the bluejay, wren blackbird, and
robin are doing them much more harm. One half.
dozen bluejays can take all the cherries off of a
good well-bearng tree, in about two days.
The people say that J. II. Ryan and p. l.. Gray
are going TO erect a telegraph line between their
homes.
Throughout the County, corn is doing very poorly.
The average height of corn here does not exceed six
inches.
Harvesting will commence in few weeks. The
machine agents are busy bees. and are now tax
ing the place of the much beloved lightning rod
agents. We are informed that three different bind
will lie brought to the farm of Pat. Krwan, and
a contest will take place. Pat. will purchase the
machine that does the best work.
Tom Green, who has been attending school at St.
Joseph returned, Saturday. We believe he will till
the soil now, till September, when he will FIN
ish his education.
Three lovely spectaeles landed at Norway, Sunday
evening; came from Severance, the mail train
One of them an extensive siX-footer, glided along
the side of the depot, the PLATFORM like blind
folded goose the sleeve of his slightly soied by
n liquid rejected By his overtaxed stomach. The
other two after proving to the boys what liquor can
l.
into the hedge more than dozen times before they
reached their destination. Those fellows could not
talk Limited States and they rolled about the
street in the swine language. When they arrived.
they armed with two pints; but when they
took their departure, the two bottles became the
property Of the boys.
Orrel Stewart, armed with j. calibre rifle, was
travelling along the road this side of Norway Sat
urday night, about ten O'Clock, when, TO his great
horror and amazement, he found himself suddenly
confronted by a man who stole out of the gloom of
the hedge. and proceeded to attack him. a Ia Jesse
James. Read and reflect" thought Orl., as the
click of his rifle broke the stiffness of the nocturnal
air. The man in the gloom was no person but Ed.
Lyons, machine agent from st. Joe, who thought
it good time and good place to scare Orl and to
accomplish his desire, he hid in the hedge and wait
ed till he came up when he sprang out before the
startled Stewart, a a rohber would have done. Orl
reflected instant, then drew a bead on the dark
and threatening form before him. and Just about
to press the trigger, when Lyons cried: Don't
sLoot-me good Injun!- OF course, then, Stewart
lowered his weapon. for he knew well the voice of
his friend. Both badly scared that two
pints of vitalizing water had to he inverted over
their nostrils to enable them to catch their
breath. Stewart had told us, about half an hour