The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1898-12-09

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Beloit.
| Former residents of Indiana living
in Pittsburg have formed "Hoosier
club.
The tidings come from the shor'
grass country that next seacon cow
are going to command much iighe'
price,.
John Speer, the pioneer Kansan
went to Colorado where he expects t.
spend the rest of the winter with hi
daughter.
At Syracuse the mill has stopped OF
account of lack of fuel. From othe
points come complaints on account o
the coal famine.
There are fifteen applicants for ont
position which Frank Nelson has t
give out and there will be more before
the winner in announced.
Miss Ella Green, the well known
travelling salesman" who died few
| days ago owned some valuable farm
property in northwest Kansas,
It's four-cornered fight for the
postoffice at Howard, with newspa
per man, a groceryman, dealer IN
hardware and farmer all seeking the
prize.
For twenty-four years j. L. Bills,
has been either postmaster or an en-
ploye of the Office at Ottawa. This
week he was appointed to a position
in the chief inspectors Office in Chi
cago.
An Ottawa man who was once ar
rested for whipping his wife assaulted
her again this week, knocked hei
down, kicked her in the ribs and the
people allowed him TO get out of town
unhurt.
Since the Gillett bust-up the register
of deeds of Dickinson county has work
ed night and day copying mortgages
The plungers mortgages foot up the
very tidy sum of 81, 1892.
A Reno county man who was arrest
ed for selling liquor mixed up with
the officer of the law, and now, on TOP
of the original charge will also be call
ed to account for resisting arrest and
assaulting an officer.
The gas well which was being sunk
for the Coffeyville Vitrified Brick COM
pany one-half mile from Cherryvale,
by Sweeney Bros, yielded fine flow
at very shallow depth. Its pressure
has not been tested yet. The work on
the plant is being pushed as fast as
possible.
There are plans now on foot looking
toward some means whereby the work
on the new prison at Ft. Leavenworth
may be pushed forward more rapidly
than it is possible to do so under the
bill establishing the new prison and
providing that prison labor only be
used in the construction of it.
Score another one for the helpful
hen. A Texas paper, in giving the
farmers of that state jacking up for
not paying more attention to the pro-
duction of eggs and poultry says that
Kansas eggs, which are shipped into
Texas by the car load are quoted q
nickel higher than the home grown
product.
An extensive bed of zinc ore has been
discovered few miles west of Hum
boldt. Prospcctors from Joplin, Mo-,
are leasing the land and preparing to
work the mines. The extent of the
find has not been determined yet, but
the experts who are on the ground
think that they have probably found a
rich mine
There is movement on foot in Cow.
ley county among the farmers and
business men to place in operation a
creamery on the cooperative plan.
The experience Cowley county farmers
have had with creameries and cream
cry men has not been such as TO in
spire their confidence in the past, but
the present scheme seems feasible.
Three Phillips county farmers-G.
Veeh, Mike Miller and Mr.. Hemerick
returned from short visit to their old
home in Germany recently. These
people were all born in the same town
and returned to find many changes
among the people. In an interview
one of the party summed up his visit
in these words: 81 found Germany
very prosperous. There will be little
or no immigration from there to this
country. The Germans, as rule, are
we'll satisfied with their conditions.
Regarding the war, many people think
this country is after the land, and
many rejoice that Spanish tyranny is a
thing of the past. In Germany the
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