The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-04-30

In the recent campaign in Emporia
each candidate spent about $4.
Judge Brunette of Wellington, kill
ed 200 plover on recent shooting OK
cursion.
Nancy Bloomfield of Solomon is SUI
ing j. w. Hill on the grounds that he
married her before his wife in the asy-
lum had died.
Tom Ryan is said to be responsible
FOR Dick Walkers appointment. Dick
has his hand in the treasury, SO, 600 per
annum worth.
Miss Maud Stacey, worthy young
newspaper woman, we'll known in Kan
sas, will soon marry Mr.. William
Cheathem, of Paris, Texas.
j. C. Mercer, of Leavenworth, has
application in for collector of internal
revenue. He may be the personal
Leavenworth friend who is to get the
place.
A Winfield man has been watching
grasshoppers and now announces that
grasshoppers do not die with the sea-
son, but barring accidents, live to a
ripe old age and become decrepit and
cranky.
Central and southwestern Kansas
was visited by good soaking rain on
the night of April 23. This has placed
the corn in fine growing condition and
made the wheat in this particular sec
tion of country.
The Dickinson county hen is getting
her innings just now. j. E. Brewer,
leading groceryman of that county,
shipped seven car loads of eggs last
week, 1,OOs,O 900 eggs. This is COM
mon shipment and nearly all go to
eastern markets.
The executive committee of the or
der is sending out invitations to the
twenty.sixth annual meeting of the
grand lodge Knights Of Pythias of
Kansas in Wichita May II to 20 inclu-
sive. An elaborate program has been
prepared for the four days meeting
and big time is expected.
A terrific hail storm struck Holton
on the night of the 22d. The ground
was completely covered, and in some
places hailstones were piled five or six
inches deep. Garden vegetables were
cut to pieces and the fruit buds and
blossoms were mostly stripped off. The
falling hail caused most deafening
roae and shattered a good many sky
lights.
At lola on the 22d another large
'gushes' was struck in the gas field
on the 22d on the Brunnell farm adj
Joining the town on the east. This is
one of the strongest gas wells there,
having a capacity of not less than ten
million cubic feet every twenty-four
hours The well is so strong that it is
impossible to force the string of tools,
weighing twenty-siX hundred pounds
into the holes
The athletic association of the Wich-
tia high school is seeking to establish
a southern Kansas high school league
for athletic contests, and haye asked
the Newton high school to connect it.
self with the league. The high school
at Wichita will soon give its third an
nual field day meet, and the preceding
meets have been so successful that the
officers of its athletic association have
thought that an inter-high school meet
might prove equally so.
One of the biggest lead strikes that
has ever been made in the vicinity of
Galena has been opened up on the
Short Creek Mining company's lease
on the Teddy e. Schmidt Bros, ground
east of that city. The shaft is owned
by John Pickett and two sons, NJ. j.
and Frank and Fred Stone. They
have reached the depth of thirty-six
feet and on April the 18th three thous-
thousand pounds of pure galena was
taken out of this shaft in one and
half hours.
Out in Greeley county two boys came
upon deer. They had their guns and
approached cautiously. But as the
thing didn't move they concluded 1t
wasn't deer and became careless and,
live a shot the deer was gone.
In every newspaper Office after work
the force Will sit around and joke about
death and promise to write one anoth
err s obituaries Recently a man in
Kansas died and friend under prom
Use wrote him a beautiful obituary
one of the best ever written in this
country.
The young lady at Newton who goes
home late at night and climbs to her
bedroom window by means of a ladder,
should be very careful her folks are
onto her.