The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-01-29

Mckinley live deer
Chautauqua county's interest was
81, 900 less in 1896 than usual.
Atchison is crying for free bridge.
Why? The men no longer want to go
to Missouri for drinks.
The only two men in Atchison who
would not have office are the only men
who have booms for mayor.
The dangerous man to the railroads
on the new railroad commission is
Campbell of Stafford county.
They say down in Sumner county
that bottle of No. Z Geuda Springs
"opens your hilarity valve"
There are no quail in the market at
Pratt, but any grocer will sell you all
the French pigeons you want.
One of the finest farms in Sumner
county is owned by George 8. Hill.
Three years ago he started in farming
with one sow.
Professor Beal, once a famous dane
ing master of southern Kansas, is now
introducing rapid method of learning
The marcy in Atchison.
Miss Mary Wire, the Hutchinson
girl was struck down by footpads, is
not recovering as rapidly as the physi'
clans had hoped. She complains OF
pain in her head.
One of the cars which helped make
up the Mckinley corn train in June
passed through Eureka the other day.
It still had some of it's decorations rat
Ting around in the wind.
Peanuts are staple crop in Cowley
county. An acre of ground will pro-
duce about $50 bushels, and they bring
for cents bushel. The cost of pro-
duction is about % per cent of the pro-
duct.
Wellington has recently been troub-
led with blind man and his blind
wife who have been making Rome
howl. They quarrel night and day
and fought like cats. They were fin
ally disposed of by being shipped to
Kansas City.
Harris says the English farmers are
in better shape than the American far
mers. He says they dress warmer, are
more comfortable and have more stick
to-lt-iveness. But they do not get
elected to the house of lords.
Property owners of Wichita who
want to shirk taxes continue to move
away and secrete vacant houses, and
then go before the taxing authorities
and ask for rebates. If the thing be
kept up long, the whole town will be
away-out of sight SO to speak.
An ottawa publisher who has faith
in the publisher of an Eastern paper,
has undertaken to raise 1000 subscri-
bers in two lots of 500 each. If he gets
500 he is to go on free trip to Paris.
If he gets 1000 the trip is to be extend
ed to Palestine. He has five years to
do the job.
If Job had known the following,
says an exchange, perhaps the record
of his patience would have been lost
to posterity: The yolk of an egg
made into plaster of honey and -four
about the consistency of mustard
paste, gives speedy relief to one
afflicted with boils. The white, used
as coating for scalds and burns, ex-
cludes the air which so aggravates the
sufferings of burned person. 1t is
softer than collodion, therefore better,
and is always at hand. 1t is more
soothing than the once popular sweet
oil and cotton. The white beaten with
sugar, is invaluable in bronchial af-
fections, especially in hoarseness,
when a little lemon juice may be ad-
ded with good results. Cidar vinegar
may be substituted for the lemon juice
when the latter is not available.
A month ago the state relaid an ex-
pensive walk at the northeast corner
of the state house square. Already
women are driving buggies oyer it to
get to the city library, and while they
are selecting their books their horses
bark the trees.
Kansas should appreciate Dan An
thony while he is still on earth. She
will never have another Dan Anthony.
For vigor and interpidity the state has
never seen his equal. When Anthony
is dead he will get fine lot of obitu
aries he will never get to see.
Anderson Gray, recently released
from the penitentiery where he went
for criminal hypnotism, it is said, will
not go back to his second wife, but
will hunt up his first spouse and re-
marry her, having long ago been di-
vorced.
A Kansas paper says the reason wo-
men are always so interested in bride