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

Sol Miller is after the Troy postofice.
The number of inmates on the coun-
ty poor farmo of Kansas is gradually
decreasing.
An Atchison firm bought 200 BUSH
els of corn az nine cents bushel in
Smith county last week.
At FL dorado when they want to
paralyze anybody they say they will
"make him jump sideways"
There are no quail in the market at
Pratt, but any grocer will sell you all
the French pigeons you want
The Mitchell county farmers will Or
ganize against the swindling fruit tree
peddlers who infcst the country.
The creamery at Argonia, Sumner
county, is receiving in the neighbor-
hood OF 5000 pounds Of milk day.
A Kansas man sayE that if The pres
ent decrease in prices keep up he will
soon be selling horses by the gross.
Billy Waggener, who owns the most
luxurious homo in Kansas is getting
ready to spend $500 fitting up his pri-
vate Office.
A Michigan man has written Bill
Edwards asking him for copy of the
Kansas law making corn and wheat of
the same value.
Sol Miller 10 still Directing to Kan
sas making the discovery of the North
Pole, matter of state appropriation
and private eaterpris'.
The county commissioners of Cowley
county have refused to accept the bond
of the new treasurer. They insist on
| its Improvement in securities.
Allen county, the home of Foghorn
Funston, was named after William AL
len, governor of Ohio, who was in his
day known as Foghorn Bill Allen.
Barnum once had lightning ticket
seller named Powers. Powers died
while the show was in Atchison. Bar
NUN had a stone erected over the
grave and when he came to Atchison
always visited it.
Peanuts are staple crop in Cowley
county. An acre of ground will pro-
duce about $50 bushels, and they bring
| for cents bushel. The cost of pro-
duction is about 25 per cent of the pro-
duct.
Stella Mott, the Hutchinson girl who
disappeared, turns out to be the New
ton girl, Grace Burns, who was found
in hay-stack near Burton. Stella
says she was walking along the street
in Hutchinson the other evening when
closed carriage came up behind her;
some one struck her on the head and
carried her away. The next thing she
knew she was lying in hay-stack.
Her father thinks she was attacked,
then dragged and appearing to be dy-
| ing she was abandoned by her captorS.
The girls of Doniphan county appear
to have improved their leap year priv
ileges. The result is that there are
thirty-four more marriage licenses is
sued by the probate judge during the
year 1896 than in any former year.
The month of December also broke the
record, there being more licenses is
sued during that month than in any
other month in the history of the coun-
ty. There were four issued in one day,
which was the greatest number OF any
one day on record. There are several
other novel features. A white couple
were married by colored preacher,
the only case of the kind on record in
the county. 1t is also noticed that one
minister of the gospel" in signing
the marriage certificate, did so by
making his mark, and having witness
to his signature. One would naturally
suppose that man who cannot write
his name, in this enlightened age, was
hardly fit subject to explain the Cos
pei. But some men must preach.
Hutchinson is greatly exercised over
the loss of the money in the postoffice
there. Several people are suspected,
among them young lady clerk. The
inspectors will get at the bottom of the
matter and public opinion will have
mighty little to do with it.
In western Kansas man school
teacher resolved to punish Tad schol-
ar; a girl of 16 summers. He punished
his pupils with ferule. ''Miss, he said
to this girl, "Give me your hand" She
blushed and said: MY. You'll have to
ask Pa. This is so sudden"
Newton is just now excited over a
black spot right in the middle of the
sun. 1t is visible to the world outside
of Newton, also
George w. Gilmore, the Rawlins
county man who was shot by an un-
known person recently, will recover,