The Chanute times., 1897-07-09
KANSAS ITEMS OF

just his size.
"Keep off the grass or the chigger
will get you" is the sign that conqror
Mt Great Bend.
The Salina Sun is not only in favo
OF damning the draws but also some o
the political bosses.
Kansas hasn't had single tornado
yet this year, but we are fearfully long
on hail storms and meteors.
FL Dorado has ghost which walks
Walnut Hill IN mosquito-bar. II
will be arrested for indecent exposure
The inference is that the hail-stones
at Topeka were either terribly large OF
the skulls of Topeka people very thin.
The meteor came so close to a Haven
young man and his best girl that il
scorched hsr eyebrows and his mus
tache.
It must be very funny to see open
saloons at Emporia. Emporia is the
most prohibition town on earth. Even
vehicles and dogs are not allowed in
their cemetery.
This year in Kansas Realty has run
away and catching Expectation around
the lariat rope, it dragging Expecta-
ton to death. The wheat yields are
exceeding all estimates.
With the new cannon in use at
Washington, if there should be inter-
nccine war in Butler county, the peo'
pie of El Dorado could lombard Au-
gusta without leaving town.
The trial of the suit brought by
Thomas A. Shedd of Boston, against
George Troutman of Philadelphia,
which involves 100000 has began in
the district court at Wichita. 1t is a
result of the failure of the Lombard
Investment company of Kansas City.
The main questions TO be decided are:
Can a stockholder be sued directly by
creditor without first proceeding
against the company; also can a cor
poration organized under the Kansas
laws sell its business to Missouri COR
poratiop, which assumes its liabilities
without the express consent of the
creditors of the Kansas company? This
corporation was afterwards succeeded
by the Lombard Investment company,
a Missouri corporation, which assumed
all the liabilities and assets of the
Kansas corporation.
James w. Anderson and r. j. Hard
ing, two Mormon elders, have arrived
in Salina to do some missionary work.
They are arranging to hold meetings,
but have not yet secured place. 1t
is their purpose to engage either
church, hold street meetings or preach
at the park. They claim that they
have been misrepresunted as to the
dogmas of their church and wish to
make it clear to the people just what
they believe. They believe no longer
in the plurality of wives The Book
of Mormon is simply a history of the
New World prior to its discovery by
Columbus as is the Old Testament
history of the ancient people of the
Old World. The Book of Mormon is
simply an adjunct to the Bible These
gentlemen have just returned from the
conference af their church at st. John,
Stafford county. where they have a
well-organized church They travel
among the people without purse or
scrip, and take up no collections in the
meetings.
Lewis Schmucl1er, assistant editor of
the Emporia Gazette, advocates pen
sion for the widows of mail clerks. He
says that the position of postal clerk
is the most dangerous service in the
government.
Four live turtles from the Gulf, each
weighing 400 pounds, passed through
Kansas in an express car recently.
Near Arkansas City one of the mes
sengers went to sleep. The other slip
ped up on him and grabbed him quick
ly around the shin, and that messeu-
ger is pale yet
Some people must go hungry in Kan
sas during hard times. A railroad man
says the railroads are shipping in great
quantities of groceries this year, more
than in any previous year and the gro
GERS say they are selling more. The
state has not grown. People are sim
ply eating their fill.
Fred Beeler, the cattle king of jew
ell county, shipped from Glen Elder "a
cars of fat cattle to Chicago. This is
the largest train of stock ever shipped
at one time, by one man, over the
Central Branch road.
M. McQuenney of Blue Rapids raised
$500 quarts of Strawberries this season
and besides selling $40 worth, had
aDoupb left for his own home uSe and