The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-08-27

One man at Abilene shipped more
than 100000 eggs to the East this
year.
The Ulysses boys will give dance
in honor Of the school ma'ams attend
ing institute.
Burglars secured SIT at Burton Aug
ust 18th. The main line of the Santa
Fe seems afflicted with toughs.
Young men and maidens of Burling-
ton find rare sport in chasing jack rab-
bits with horses and grey hounds.
Maddox, the escaped lunatic, is still
at large. He hides in the large corn
fields and lives upon raw roasti ng-ears
The Western Building and Invest
ment Company of Topeka has been in
corporated. The capital stock is $780,
900.
The strained relations betweed Lib
eral and Hugoton, which began over
base ball, may yet terminate is blood
shed or windshed.
phone line to connect Mcpherson with
Mound Ridge. 1t will be completed
in early September.
They are putting in skimming sta
tions at Goddard, Derby and Caldwell
This will make several plants tribu
tary to the creamery in Wichita.
A White Cloud young lady uses big
umbrella for parachute and has lots
of fun jumping from high places to
entertain lady friends exclusively.
The new $50, 900 car shops erected by
the Santa Fe in Topeka have been COM
pleted. The car repairing work Is
now being done in the new building.
A Topeka burglar entered housn,
opened the pantry and ate two quart,
of apple sass. Had it been two quarts
of apple jaclS-but perish the thought
A Great Bend man while working in
an elevator was caught in the shaft
ing. He saved his life by clinging to
ladder, but his clothing was torn from
his person.
W. w. Moore is the name of one of
Newton's bicycle thieves He borrowed
wheel for few minutes and was
caught in Emporia two days later. He
is in jail.
This is the season for purloined
pants to be found in the yard of morn
ings. 1t is warm enough for the pro.
prietors of pants to sleep in them in
the yard for safety.
Lee Swanson and Clarence Williams,
two boys who escaped recently from
the State Reform School at Topeka,
have been captured near Holton and
returned to the institution.
The fruit traffic as well as the grain
still continues heavy along the main
| line of the Santa Fe road OF late,
there scarcely has been day when a
fruit special has not gone east.
| On account of the heavy movement
of wheat. three new telegraph offices
have been opened on the southern di.
vision of the Santa Fe. The new offices
are at Wilmore and Anness on the Au-
gusta branch, and Lawrie on the main
line in Oklahoma.
| One firm alone of Ford county has
purchased $40, 900 worth of cattle, the
surplus of the farmers in the German
settlement of this county. This is
rough estimate, but is pretty near the
| truth The German settlement neigh
bors haye sold cattle to other dealers,
but not to this amount. 1t is safe to
say that the aggregate surplus of cat
| tie sold in one year amounts to $60,000
in rough guess There arc not more
than one hundred families in the set
Element and an even distribution of
this wealth would give to each family
5000.
Seventy coaches of Kansans rolled
into Kansas City one Sunday recently
That town has open saloons on Sunday.
The rush of grain from the northern
and western points is so great that the
Missouri Pacific yards at Atchison have
been blocked for several days and it is
necessary to sidetrack Central Branch
freight trains mile west of town. 1t
takes seven switch crews to handle the
business in the Missouri Pacific yards.
The Central Branch shops forces are
working IS hours a day to keep the
rolling stock in good order.
The attendance at the State Univer-
sity this year promises to pass beyond
the 1900 mark.
Lots of people do not know that the
buffalo grass is a grain bearer, and
that the grain is better feed for stock
than oats, barley, corn or wheat, but
such is the fact says Western Kansas
paper. Down close to the ground the
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