The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1898-09-02

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Kansans refer to Dewey.
The streets of Leavenworth are not
as clean as they should be.
i Counterfeit half dollars are being
circulated in northern Kansas.
Frankfort's band won in contest at
Marysville. That town always keeps
up good band
A "healer" who cures diseases by
laying ON of hands is working in
southern Kansas
There is not vacant house in West
moreland; and the statement comes
from other towns.
1t is said that good deal OF the
Marshall county corn will make sixty
bushels to the acre.
A Kansas exchange says we should
hold the Philippines for the reason
that they belong to u.s.
Llndsburg claims to be the neatesa
town in the state; claim which many
other towns may dispute.
A Beloit man is threshing out big
wheat crop which will fall just little
bit shy of 10000 bushels.
Frank Grimes umpired baseball
game in Stevens county a few days ago
and got out without being hurt
An eye-doctor who came to Hiawa-
tina nine months ago has proven a great
| harvest field for the local papers.
A Franklin county man makes mon
ey each year from pear orchard. He
gets $1.75 a bushel for them just now.
Del Valentine still insists that no
high-priced threshing machine outfit
ever turned out to be money-maklng
Investment for the owner.
A Lindsborg man has fine patch OF
tobacco growing in his garden. In the
southern part of the state cotton is
raised. This is mighty hot old state
Of late years in Kansas when man
tells friend he is going to run for the
legislature the friend sneaks off to the
aspirant's physician and wife and
whispers the information to them.
Modesty is characteristic of the
great majority of the letters which are
sent home by the soldiers, but once in
while one appears which creates the
impression that the writer is the whole
smear.
A Dickinson county man, who has
had good chance to form an intelli-
gent opinion, says that he thinks there
will be fully as much corn in that
county this year as last, and plenty OF
fodder, also.
If this meets the eye of any retired
Banker or Merchant, or any other bus
mess man who desires good position
in a good business, write Walker &
Luling, No. 200 New England Bldg,
Kansas City, Missouri.
At a public sale in Dickinson county
which amounted to nearly $4,000, over
IS per cent of the purchases were paid
for in cash. This shows where lot of
Kansas money is. 1t is the farmers
who attend public sales.
The Lawrence World says that in
Douglas county the only corn com
plant heard is that there are no nub-
bins. The farmers who have been
feeding nubbins to their cattle will
have to cut the big ears up with their
axes.
From the list day of January up to
the 10th of last month the Galena-Em-
pire mining district furnished 35 per
cent of the total output of the entire
mining district of Southeast Kansas
and Southwest Missouri, so says the
Galena Republican.
Marysville firemen will attend the
tournament at Omaha. While practic-
ing the other evening, two men be-
longing to the Beloit team were injur-
ed, and the accident may result in
keeping the members of that depart
ment from being in attendance.
Americans are great on Boosting of
living in the land of the free and the
home of the brave, but in Russell
county last week a young lady signed
a contract to teach a country school,
and interlined in the contract was a
stipulation that she would refrain
from keeping company with certain
young man of the district. Did you
ever hear tell of the like?
While the sheriff of Nemaha county
and his wife were attending funeral
a few days since three booty toughs
called at the Jail and asked Miss Mary
Raglan, the only person about, to be
allowed too see one of the prisoners.
She replied that she could not permit
them to do so, when they concluded to
do it, anyhow. Thcrcupon the young
lady secured the sheriff's revolver, and