The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-03-05

The Anthony Methodist church has
made aSnet gain Of sixty-one this con-
ference year. ,'
A young lady is doing much good in
the Lords cause at the revival meet
ings in Kiown. 4 ~
Andy Richards says honesty in poll
tics always. pays. And Andy has just
made a sight draft.
A Garden City man has gone to Mis-
souri, and organized stock company to
develop gas well.
The FINAL redemption notice" now
appearing in the newspapers applies
to taxes and not to souls.
5 Candor compels the editor of the
Kiowa Review to say that the local
cemetary needs cleaning up badly.
Coyoteing is growing in favor at
Goodland A recent chase secured five
of the varmits. Their pelts sold for 81
each.
A fine prairie eagle was killed by
Joe Gresham in Sumner county last
week. 1t measured nine feet from tip
to tip.
Larned amateurs will soon present a
play, but they won't take it to Kinsley
or Great Bend. Larned has learned
something.
At recital at Arkansas City the
other evening a Miss Sumpter went
through LISTS Rigoletto de Verdi
without gasp.
The criminal courts expenses for Cow
ley county have been uniformly deceas-
ing for years. In 1893 these expenses
were SCI 900; in 1896, $4,000.
The people of Anthony have given
up hope of train service on the Frisco
They say that they do not want one
train day, as it would do them no
good.
A Butler county man has an old lith-
ograph of Carroll Hall, Fortress Mon
roe, where jeff Davis was made prison
err while this Butler county man was
guard there.
When the Andrews Opera company
recently appeared in Newton the'whole
town turned out to hear the Misses
Price, who have parts and used to live
in Newton.
One evening recently some fellows
at Caldwell got to dreaming among the
mes of their liquor about the good
old days and went out and proceeded
to shock the community by shooting
up the town.
In examining the premises of Mrs.
Catherine Meyer, who was buried on the
2lst at Leavenworth, the testators
found 81, 600 hidden in the house, much
of it in gold. The widow left no will
and Mrs. Schultz, wife of Leaven-
worth councilman, will inherit the
whole estate which includes much
realty and valuable paper.
d. C. Mac is railroad engineer on
the Santa Fe who should be remember
ed. Ahead of Macs train the other
day was a pony running away with
two children on its back. A wire fence
was at the side of the road, and Mac
saw if he passed the beast it would shy
into this. He therefore stopped the
train and let the pony get out of the
road. .r
The professor of the Bethel college
at Newton sent a cablegram to Berlin,
Germany, and received an answer in
fifteen hours. He has a brother at
CAMERON, Africa, and hearing by let
ter that he had died there, sent ca
blegfam to Berlin to confirm or refute
the statement. The returning cable
gram brought the news that the pro-
fessors brother was alive and well at
last reports.
Tl., Anthony churus will attend the
Hutchinson jubilee this year. Anthony
has large number of good singers
and will furnish strong chorus for
the contest.
Recently two suspicious looking fell
lows appeared in Horton and seemed
to be well supplied with clothing and
after loafng around the depot for some
time, they made their way to the Rock
Island shops with about dozen new
overcoats, selling them to the shop
boys at prices ranging from $3.50 to
SO. 90.
1.-THE Winfield council and the water
works company have settled their
quarrel. The water company get $4,000
for all claims prior to January Is, 1897,
and 81, 200 annually for the remaining
six wears of their contract, payable
twice year.
A 16-year-old boy was ground to
pieces in the Leavenworth switch
yards on the 23d. The boy was cross