The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-05-14

day.
Thomas Ryan has appointed young
man named Raymond, who it is said,
can prove he lives in Kansas, his priv
ate secretary.
This is wonderfully cool spring in
Kansas. 1t has been so cold that even
the tornadoes have been frost-bitten
and so benumbed that they cannot
whirl.
The next great improvement which
the Santa Fe will begin in Kansas will
be the construction of a $4,000 grain
elegator at Winfield. Work on this
will be begin at once and will be push
ed to completion as rapidly as posi-
BILE.
Ritter Bros, of Chetopa have just
| broken ground for new 50-barrel
Touring mill with meal and feed at
tachments. Work will be pushed and
they are expecting to have it in opera
ton by the time new wheat comes in
again.
Although the wet weather has inter-
fered with the work on the irrigation
ditch at Great Bend to some extent,
the first mile is completed with the ex-
ception of the riprap on the lower side.
The working force has been increased
to over eighty men.
A man was up before the police judge
of Topeka the other day for stealing
coal The railroad detective SAID he
caught the fellow in the coal car, but
the man said that he was only sleeping
there because his wife had locked him
out and he had no money to go to
hotel. Pretty hard bed, wasn't it?"
asked the Judge. "Oh, no, sir, he an
swered, 1T was soft coal" And the
Judge was so struck with the joke that
he let him go.
Manager Harry Love of the Missouri
& Kansas Telephone Co. reports hay
ing reached distance of seven and
half miles north of Pittsburg with the
extension of the long distance line;
also that the soil so far has just been
right for digging post holes and that
the line has been constructed at the
rate of one and quarter miles per day
However, lie expects to encounter some
hard ground before reaching Ft Scott.
which is thirty-eight miles from Pitts
burg.
At the Dickinson county poor farm
recently arrived charge who has for
many years puzzled physicians and
whose case is to-day stranger than
ever. Newton Reed was born about
81 years ago and for long time has
lived in South Dickinson with relatives
who have cared for him. Their re-
moval made it best to bring him to the
county farm where he is well cared for
by the superintendent. When between
and years old Reed had inflamma-
tory rheumatism, which stopped the
growth of his body. So it is to-day as
then, the body of a child with tiny
limbs, drawn and mishapen by disease
The head, however, is that of a normal
man. full-sized, with beard growing as
usual. Mr.. Reed wears only a nous
tache. however There is good
shaped forhead and the eyes show an
observant and intellectual brain be-
hind. He reads the papers, talks well
and takes lively interest in life. Yet
he cannot sit up, but lies always in
the little bed, helpless and hopeless of
ever being better. 1t is sad fate yet
many people with all the advantages
of sound body are less contented
than this unfortunate who abides in
resignation his dsetiny. The physi-
clans say there is no hope for improve
ment, yet he may live to old age.
About ten years ago his story crept
into the papers, but some of the local
papers branded it as fake 1t was,
however, strictly true, yet so strange
that few could believe it.
When Mrs, Cleveland OF Pratt shot
her husband last week at Pratt he was
so anxious that no one should know it
that after falling to the ground he
arose and walked home with her, FIVE
blocks.
The Golfer county normal institute
will be held in Burlington commenc-
ing May 81 and closing July 3. Prof.
$. w. Black, principal Of the Plttsburg
schools, will be conductor. EX-County
Superin tendent George Scheneck and
Prof j. NJ. Pieratt, of Coffey county
will assist
The Populist central committee of
Dickinson county has appointed com
mittee to draft resolutions condemning
Senator Hannah for his vote against
, the maximum freight rate law.
The farmers of Kansas have get out
in the past few years 147, 340 Scres of
forest. Among them are 1900 acres