The Chanute times., 1897-07-09

Ike Lambert and family of Emporia
will spend the summer IN the Rocky
Mountains.
Harper joint keepers are receiving
anonymous letters and are very !ndig-
nant at the violators of law.
Burlington girls dress in Mother
Hubbards and go out serenading. The
young men follow at safe distance.
Sherman Bivouac of Jewell county,
Il soldier organization, will hold It's an.
nual reunion at Ionia July 10 and IA.
1t is generally understood that the
Topeka joints are now being protected
under system of 500 a month fines.
The Emporia girl who weeps every
time the home base ball club is de-
feated, ought to start an irrigating
ditch.
Fourteen cars of tea in one train from
japan en- route to New York passed
through Kansas on the Santa Fe re-
Gently.
An Arkansas City man is firm be.
lever in linen pants. He wears them
| for trousers in the summer and under.
wear in the winter.
A Wellington man has gone to Fort
Scott to start daily paper to advocate
violation of the prohibitory law. Its
obituary will appear soon.
A fishing party of fourteen people
from Hugoton caught one little cat.
fish. The trouble over the division OF
the spoils was settled by putting tho
fish back in the creek.
In divorce petition at Wichita the
plaintiff named half dozen promi-
nent business men as correspondents.
Their wives are now preparing to do
little divorce petitioning and the town
is as much excited as when Tiger Bill
resigned.
81 wish, said one of the central tel
ephone girls at Hutchinson the other
day, ''that | could walk into lions
den just as Daniel did and see if it
would hurt me- ''Goodness." exclaim-
ed her companion. "What for?' "Oh,
just for the fun of teasing the lion. "
The Prairie Mound cemetery near
Solomon has queer epitaph. 1t is cut
on a small tombstone and was seem.
ingly put there by the childs parents
and reads: "a little weazen faced baby,
head too big for its body: two great,
staring eyes, seeming to wonder why
it was born"
Last week was busy one at the
Leavenworth county treasurer's Office.
The collections for the month of June,
to and including Monday, the 21st,
amounted to S55, 5,459;3G. There being
but eighteen working days in this per-
iod, this made an average collection of
SO, 100 per day. The total collection of
taxes for 1896 up to date amounted to
$500, T12j5, which is about S., 900 less
than the amount collected at this time
last year and leaves about $50, 600 yet
on the rolls to collect.
Down in Harper county there is a
nice, fatherly old Methodist circuit
rider who evidently believes that un-
der certain circumstances that it is
proper to labor on Sunday. Recently
he preached i'll a country school house
while the air about him was fairly buz-
zing with the sound of harvesters as
they gathered the over-lipe grain.
When it came time to pray he offered
up supplication from which the fol-
lowing is an extract: And, nov, o
Lord, look down upon and bless those
who are toiling in yonder fields If it
were not Thy will, 0 Lord, that they
should work upon the Sabbath day,
Thou wouldst not have over-ripened
the fruit of Thy vineyard. Bless them
and sustain them, for they toll to fill
the mouths of Thy ba bes and helpless
ones, and, if they break one of Thy
commandments, forgive them, for they
mean not TO.
Four ladies were out boat riding on
the night of June Goth on the WalnuI
river near Augusta when something
jumped into the boat. Supposing it to
be mouse or snake, several of them
contemplated jumping into the river,
when one of them being braver than
the others decided to capture the rep
tile. After catching it she saw that it
was a black bass and took off her neck
tie, run it through its gills and march
ed triumphantly home with Il bass is
inches long, probably the largest bass
eyer taken out of the Walnut river.
There are more cattle in Lincoln
county than every before. The asses
sors return $4,000 over six months old
on the first of March. Several hundred
more have been brought into the coun
ty since then. All of the cattlemen