The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1898-12-16

crowded for room.
The old settlers of Shawnee county
held their forty-fourth reunion last
week.
The first day of the Sunny Slope G. :
tie auction $34, 900 was raked in by the
auctioneer
Kansas newspapers are charging to
meet the demands of the holiday adj
vertisers.
A young lady holds down the posi-
ton of prescription clerk in Norton
drug store.
Miss Babcoclt's testimony is damag-
ing against young Colling. If he is
convicted her testimony will certainly
do it,
The Lincoln county court house, a
stone structure burned the other
night. The building was put up be-
fore the war.
Pick-pockets are now plying their
their trade in the crowds at the Col
ms trial in Topeka Topeka is at
last getting a have genuine metropoli-
tan air.
When Miss Babcocll went on the
witness stand she was closely watched
by the reporters so closely watched, in
fact, that every motion of her eyes is
recorded.
Rev. DIR. Olden, the Topeka man who
went to Cuba for the votes of the
TWenty-third regiment at Santiago,
warns all Kansas negroes against 10
ca ling in that island.
Westmoreland is the only county
seat town in Kansas without railroad
and there is some talk of building one
from Wamego The distance is TWEEN
miles and the roads bad.
Neat pamphlets have been published
by the South Central Kansas Poultry
and Pet Stock association announcing
it's third annual exhibit in Hutchin-
son. The date of the exhibition well
be December 20 to "a.
Geo. Culver, a former resident OF
Woodson county has been living in
Colorado for the past couple of years,
but couple of weeks ago hit the back
trail for Woodson county, where he
knew he could make things come his
way.
George W. Rohr of Atchison county,
has returned from the Philippines,
where he served with the eighteenth
infantry. In his case there is some
thing in a name as he is roaring fear
fully about the condition of the army
gut there.
While Miss Babcock and John Col
ms were out driving it is said Col
ins pulled out a revolver. Miss Bah
cock was frightened, of course. This
ought to have no bearing in the trial
against Collins. Every young idiot
las a notion, at one time in his life,
hat he should lug big revolver with
lin.
The Parsons hunters who left that |
city about two weeks ago for the |
south have returned home, bringing
With them the finest lot of game any |
party of hunters has ever brought to
Parsons. The collection consisted of |
i've deer and over fifty wild turkeys. |
The hunters report small game plenti
'ul. Other hunting parties are going |
Down and expect to return as equally |
alden.
When the farmers of state are pros |
porous the whole state is prosperous, |
md when the farmers Of nation are |
the entire nation is prosper
,us Farming, which includes raising
stock, vegetables and fruit, as we'll as
grain and hay is the very bedrock of !
prosperity in this great agricultural |
Farmers are the producers
Who add to the wealth of the country. |
other vocations live off from what the
armers produce.
A Gaylord man was guest at the
Baldwin hotel in San Frincisco on the |
light of the great fire. He succeeded |
n getting away with the clothes he
lad on and that was all.
In the American Monthly Review of |
Reviews for December the editor re-
news the November elections, the pro-
rress of our peace negotiations with !
spain, and other matters of national |
md international moment. Some very |
and Interesting cartoons |
rom recent issues of the Spanish jour
lals are reproduced.
The taste of Coffeyville doesn't run
10 much to potted plants as it does to
pottery plants One pottery plant has
1een secured and the citizens are MAX !
ng a strong pull for another.