The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-01-22

Nine antelope were killed in the
southwestern part of Clark county re-
Gently.
Last week there was big snow out
West; this week the farmers are plow-
ing for oats
Butler county has 115. TAI head OF
live stock, the largest number Of the
county in the state
Feed is SO cheap in Lincoln that liv
erymen give q horse square meal and
shelter for five cents.
A Kiowa man mourns for the good
old days when money was plenty and
silk hats scarce in Kiowa.
Tobacco is dreadful habit. An Ar
kansas City man smoked for forty
years and then died. And he is still
smoking
A comic opera company torturing
western Kansas admonishes patrons in
its advertisements to ''sow on your
buttons tight"
The result of the senatorial fight
will be the announcement of half
dozen fellows that "they have quit
politics for good"
Ii Kansas bushcl of corn pays for
just one glass of whisky. But the
same bushel can be made into four
| and one-third gallons of it.
The Lacrosse Christian church has a
crop OF 70 acres of wheat in. from the
proceeds of which they expect to pay
off church indebtedness of $500
A Leavenworth man kissed his wife
on New Years day as an earnest of a
good resolution, and she was so SUR
prised that she exclaimed, "Now you
stop"
Jerry Simpson is not having the fun
he used to. The papers have forgot
ten him and the papers notices of him
were the chief charm Of public life to
Jerry.
People who think the financial ques-
tion is dead should observe the street
corners in Kansas. They are crowding
up again just as they were before cleo
ton.
An lola woman bought COW for $40,
and in eight months made and sold
S4s 90 worth of butter The money
power isn't in it with that combina-
ton.
The criminal record in Ottawa coun-
ty was very short last year. Ten per-
sons were put in Jail, two were sent to
penitentiary and Joe Tomlinson was
defeated for representative
Part of the regular patronage of Kan
sas weekly newspapers is the local no.
tice in which merchants dun their deb
tors to pay up. Some of the merchants
even go so far in these notices as to
explain why they want the money.
The northern department of the
Kansas courts of appeal has decided
that decree of divorce is not opera
tive until six months after it is grant
ed. This is to shut off marriages with
in the six months following divorces.
If Job had known the following,
says an exchange, perhaps the record
of his patience would have been lost
to posterity: The yoll of an egg
made into plaster of honey and flour
of about the consistency of mustard
paste, gives speedy relief to one
afflicted with boils The white, used
as coating for scalds and burns ex-
cludes the air which so aggravates the
sufferings of burned person. 1t is
softer than collodion, therefore better,
and is always at hand. 1t is more
soothing than the once popular sweet
oil and cotton. The white beaten with
sugar, is invaluable in bronchial af-
fections, especially in hoarseness,
when little lemon juice may be ad-
ded with good results. Cidar vinegar
may be substituted for the lemon juice
when the latter is not available.
A western Kansas newspaper man
was SHIELD up in Kansas City. After
the robbers got through searching him
they Clipped in and gave him enough
to buy square meal.
The young boys of Douglass wrote
on all the merchants windows with
soap: "a Happy New Year" Police
man Winters grabbed them, made
them get buckets, towels and water
and walked them about the streets in
daylight and made them clean the
windows brighter than they had been
for years.
The plan of making Kansas Day one
of celebration in vindication of the
state has started the eastern floods of
ridicule again.
There is something comfortable in
seeing Doster chief justice. He is the
o,rao +aef draarner in the state He can