The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-07-30


Prosperity is not an unmixed bless
ing. The Ell Dorado brass band will
reorganize.
The annual meeting of the Society
of friends has been transferred from
Lawrence to Wichita.
The stock yards case Is still being
tried, but the people are tired of it and
the newspapers have quit it.
Newton has passed a severe ordi-
nance against tramps. Newton hasn't
been so particular very long.
The prospect hole at Wichita is to be
sunk 400 feet deeper. Wichita people
think they are playing China.
The postal department has promised
to discontinue the newspaper train
from Kansas City to Newton as soon
as possible
1t is expected that at least 10000
head of sheep will be fattened in the
vicinity of Lyndon this fall. They will
be brought in from New Mexico and
Arizona.
The small boy base TALL club of Mead
is going to play the big girls. The
big boys are putting the kids up to
some mean tricks, and an arbitrator
may be needed.
The city authorities of Wichita have
decided that bicycle cannot be made
to pay license tax. Heretofore only
the saloons have been the privileged
characters in Wichita.
-Four stacks of wheat representing
about 500 bushels, were supposed to
have been burned by thugs near Ash
erville, Mitchell county. July Goth.
That it was the work of iucendiaries
there can be no doubt, rs the straw
was scattered ten feet away from the
stacks, the match applied, and it burn
ed slowly until it reached the stacks.
1t is surmised that this was done in
order TO let the fire bugs get away be-
fore it burned to the stacks.
W. II. Pottle, the merchant of Ar
kansas City, is being commended for
his charity in the case of Ray Reed,
who was killed by Il train. Formerly
Reed had worked for Pottle, but bust
ness relations between them had ceas-
ed. When Reed was killed none of his
relatives could be found and Mr.. Pottle
attended to the funeral and bore the
expense of the rites. The dead boy
can not thank him, but it raises him
high in the estimation OF his living
employees
The university at Ottawa has re-
ceived an interesting accession to its
roll of students. Mr.. 4. Fushida,
young Japanese of 20 years, has arriv
ed fresh from his native land to enroll
himself at Ottawa university. Mr.
Fashida, although but three weeks
from his native heath, has already
Americanized himself-he wears his
first suit of clothes Of western civiliza-
tion-and talks remarkably good
quality of the English language Mr..
Fushida's home is at Chofu; he has
been a student at Toxic and Yoloha-
ma.
Henry Harp of Sumner county, met
his brother Abraham last week whom
he had not seen for AZ years. The two
brothers had been living within six
miles of one another for the past two
years without either of them knowing
of the others whereabouts. The meet
ing was by the merest accident. The
brothers separated in Lincoln county,
KY, in May, 1850. Abraham went to
Indiana and Henry went TO Illinois.
They soon lost track of one another
and neither ever received any intima-
tion of the others whereabouts until a
few days ago. Mr.. Harp has another
brother whose whereabouts are I'M
known, and whom he has not seen for
40 years.
Last spring the city mills Of Abilene,
in order to test the spring wheat grow
ing in Dickinson county, in hope of Sc
curing a grain that would be free from
danger of winter killing, put out some
seed of spring wheat under favorable
conditions. The first field of ten
and one-half acres, just threshed,
yielded only forty bushels, while win
ter wheat in the vicinity gave twenty
five or thirty bushels per acre. The
outlook is for no more experiments.
Only sixty four acres were sown in the
county this year.
Z. G. Neadeau & Son, post traders
at the Pottawatomie reservation, near
Holton, whose store was closed by
creditors on account of the defalca-
tion of $4,000 by trusted employee
some time ago, have employed attor-
ncys to fight the attachments run
against all their property on the res
arva t;Ou They claim that the secre-