The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-06-11

the aid OF reamery.
An abundance of fruit will be raised
in Pratt county this year.
The Larned base ball club is going
around with chip on its shoulder.
Wanted Agents.-Best work. Good
commissions. Kansas Steam Laundry,
Wichita, Kansas.
Wellington girls have organized a
society known as the MERRY Maids"
and wading parties are on the pro-
gram.
The story of an exiled Russian no.
oleman who died in solitude near Eu-
reka was fake. Any one who thought
it was the truth should have fears for
his mind.
The Fort Scott high school alumni
are divided on the question whether
dancing is a proper thing to have at
their reunion. Those who can't dance
are opposed to it.
There are more poets in Lawrence
than in any other town in Kansas, but
the newspapers there absolutely refuse
to publish any of the product except
at double advertising rates.
A heavy rain fell in all parts of Lin
coin county June 2, doing an incalcu-
liable amount of good, as dust storm
had ragged with great violence the day
before and the crops were needing ram
badly.
A good many wolves that are flushed
in Dickinson county near the Marion
line arc chased into the latter before
being shot. In Marion 81 is paid for
wolf scalp killed in the county and in
Dickinson but 81.
The Kansas Creamery company OF
Topeka, who are operating plant at
Belleville, with Swimming stations
along the Rock Island road at NarSa,
| Scandal, Lebanon, Smith Center and
Dresden in operation, and work pro-
crossing on others in Formosa, Phillips
burg. Kensington, Norton, Oberlin
and HoXie, will make Belleville the
main point to do the ehurning. This
creamery is at present churning four
times a day and averaging 1,4OO pounds
of butter daily.
Calvin Hayes, the aged commission
merchant of Shawnee county, has been
refused new trial in the district
court and will go to the peniteutiary
for embezzlement within month, un-
less an appeal is taken to the supreme
court. At this term of the district
court, Hayes was convicted OF emoez-
cling over $40 from New York city
commission merchant. Hayes is near
ly 60 years of age and has been in the
commission business in Topeka for sew
eral years.
d. b. Robinson, president of the
officials of the road, spent several
hours in Wichita May Goth. President
Robinson stated that in all reliability
Wichita would be made the western
terminus of the Frisco. AT present the
Frisco is running its trains over the
Kansas Midland to Burton, which is
its terminus. Should the change be
made he thought the road would turn
it's business for points west of Wichita
over to the Santa Fe.
Anderson Gray, the Sumner county
murderer who was pardoned from the
penitentiary by Gov Morrill, just an
hour before he turned over the reins OF
government to Governor Leedy; is in
custody again and stands fair show
of taking another trip to Leaven worth
This tire he is charged with buying
witnesses in land contest case in Ok
lahoma and is a federal prisoner at
Guthrie. The crime for which he is
now held was committed before he was
arrested and convicted of murder. AT
ter his pardon by Gov. Morrill,, the old
federal charge was dug up against
him and he was taken in by the terri
torial officers.
On May Goth Manhattan was visited
by disastrous fire.
The successful convention of the So
cial science federation recently held in
Hutchinson has given great impetus
to the Stockton Twentieth Century
club. AZ first the membership was
limited to 20 but it was afterwards
thought advisable to extend the limit
to 25. The meetings are held on the
first and third Thursdays of the month;
a magazine report and the roll call re-
sponded to by current events are part
of each program.
June I'd the Humboldt Gas company
finished putting down pipes to furnish
the town with gas. In nine days the
company has dug the trenches and
laid nine miles OK pipe. The trenches
on all main lines where six-inch pipe
is used are two feet deep. Two miles