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

carnival.
Salina is kicking against the Santa
Fe's fast mail. ~
Newton ladies give good old fashion
ed quilting bees
The slaughter of plover in the short
grass country is immense.
James Long, near the town of Jen'
nings, was killed by lightning recent
ly.
The state officers have been invited
to attend the Neosho Falls old soldiers
reunion.
Dwight Fowler, formerly of Newton,
was drowned near Dyea, Alaska, while
trying to ford stream.
Listen to an old man talk and you
will hear him lie about the great
amounts of money he made when he
was young.
Agents taking pictures for art firms
to enlarge, have been receiving part
pay in advance and swindling people
in Eastern Kansas.
Plums are so plentiful in the neigh
borhood of Garden City that children
can make 81 day at picking them, at
4 cents per basket.
Madison Staley of Ottawa, who was
killed in bicycle accident last spring,
carried 100000 life insurance, and his
wife has just received the first pay
ment.
The state board of railroad commits
sioners has been requested by j. A.
Mosher of Rydal, Republic county, to
order the Rock Island to establish a
telegraph office at that point.
A western Kansan, having been de-
serted by u rich woman, whom he had
married, is suing her for years sup
port. The poor fellow thus thrown on
the world, has no wife to provide for
HIM.
An Ottawa married couple have fire.
quent quarrels. The wife often dreams
of mice and screams like a creamery
whistle. This awallens the husband
so suddenly that his nerves become all
crimped and jerlIy.
Hazelton has made proposition to
its eastern stockholders to compromise
the bonds issued ten years ago, and
maturing in 1897, for $4,000, declaring
that the city will be forced to repudi-
ate the debt if the creditors will not
let up.
The &. A. R. post at Sabetha is talk
ing of digging for the buried cannon
on the site of the old fort at LeXing-
ton, on the Nemaha county line. There
is an old we'll on the farm of L. M.
Brown, near the old site of the fort,
and it is supposed the gun was thrown
into it.
A handsome Hutchinson young lady
who has been engaged three weeks,
had her fortune told recently, and said
she wouldn't tell her friends what the
fortune has in store for her for mil
lion dollars. With that sum of money
she might avoid it and marry foreign
count.
Here's farmers sure rat eradicator:
Take one-half pint OF sifted meal and
put into it a thlmbleful of calomel,
such as used in families Mix well and
place in small tins or some shallow
vessel in or near where the rats infest,
all to be used dry, and in short time
rats will be scarce on the premises.
An Atchison paper, in recounting
that Bishop Millspaugh of Kansas was
introduced to Queen Victoria during
his recent visit in London, declares
that Topeka has decided to make him
a feature of the fall festival by stand
ing him up somewhere and allowing
the people to shake the hand that was
pressed by her majesty. Here's a
chance for Kansas millionaires' daugh-
ters to get touch of high life and a
royal thrill.
The latest petty thieving in the East
ern part of the state is the purloining
of butter from wells, placed there for
cool keeping by good farmers wives
the fresh yellow butter, the rich Jer-
sey butter they hang in the well.
All but two of the coal operators of
the district comprised in Crawford and
Cherokee counties have signed the
agreement made with the executive
board at Pittsburg, August IA. These
are the Kansas and Texas Coal COM
pany, and the Central Coal and Coke
company.
The township boards of the various
townships of Johnson county met in
the Office of County Clerk Thomas on
August 14th and unanimously petit
toned the county commissioners to
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