The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1898-07-29

in n few days and that Ed. Little is
sufficiently recovered to accompany
them.
The salary of the city attorney at
Holton has been reduced to. 5000; but
that is probably pretty fair compensa-
ton for the amount of work he has to
attend to.
The Phillipsburg Dispatch says; A
rich harvest is waiting the show outfit
that visits our town after the corn is
laid by" Our people are becoming
show hungry.
A thief visited Plainville recently,
took a horse from one man, set OF
harness from another, and buggy
from third and then went on his
way rejoicing.
Leroy has no negro population an in
consequence citizens of the town who
plant watermelon patches have rea-
sonable guaranty of eating fare
share of the crop.
There is dispute among the rural
papers as to the king in Kansas Some
say it is wheat; some corn, and some
the hog 1t is neither of these. 1t is
either the hen or the COW, and Secre-
tary Coburn ought to settle the ques-
ton.
J. A. Buckles, ieweler at COTS, has
been working for some time on sub
marine torpedo boat of his own inven-
ton. The other day, while reading a
paper he ran across a description of his
destroyer. Some man down in Ken
lucky who had been struck with the
same idea had beaten his time.
When the news reached lola that
fully 90 per cent of the local military
company had become engaged to girls
in San Francisco, one of the lola girl
who belonged to the Soldier Sewing
Socity sent in her resignation with the
remark that she did not intend to sit
up nights making housewives and
nightshirts for the benfit of those bold
scheming, pie-faced California misses"
The estate of j. S. Collins has been
sued for money collected by Collins
and not turned over. Perhaps this
is another clue to the murder. 1t is
lead that should be followed. The
more traxs made in the trail the more
difficult it will be to fasten the crime
upon the devil who did the murder
that is to say the "skulking negro" or
the phantom of the Dewey parade.
A funny man at Hutchinson sent
some of the boys of the twenty-first
regiment box containing lot of trash
This was the Hutchinson mans idea of
Joke. soldier can send a letter,
the postage to be paid by the receiver.
Every day now the funny fellow re-
ceives grist of letters from soldiers,
thanking him for the box, and promis-
ing that all the boys will write again
next day, and he has to put up all the
postage.
"a few years ago Mr.. Fox Tail, a
Comanche Indian, welded Miss Bull
tail, an Arapahoe girl. living near Ell
Reno. Foxt Tail promised his wife's
father the usual number of dogs, cat
tie, ponies and tobacco. Up to the
present time Fox Tail has failed to
keep his promise with his father-in-
law and last week the father-in-law
went to the home of his son-in-law and
took away his wife and four children.
Now Fox Tail is bringing suit to get
them back.
Threshing has begun in the north
ern part of the state and the first in
stallment of Pawnee county's new,
1898, wheat crop has made its appear
ance on the market. 1t weighed fifty
six pounds to the bushel, and the field
from which it was threshed produced
twenty-five and half bushels to the
acre. 1t is estimated that this years
crop in Pawnee county will aggregate
/ 500, 600 bushels, and the most of it
will grade fairly good No. p There
are now about fifty threshing ma
chimes with their outfits at work in
Pawnee county.
A talented young woman of Kansas
who is fast making place for herself
in the art world, is Miss Jo-Shipley
Watson of Emporia. Miss Walton was
special student in Wellesley college
| in 1SSs-0O. and afterward studied in
Paris and Berlin, where she became
proficient in the French and German
languages She also gave her atten-
ton to music, which is her passion,
studying under the guidance of Helm
rich Barth, royal professor and court
pianist of Prussia, and was with him
three years. AS player Miss Watson