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

one day last week.
The recent rain and snow is just
what Kansas needed to help the wheat
crop.
Three Atchison saloon keepers wer
fined $50 apiece for selling stuff or
Sunday.
A Glen Elder man threshed s4,0O(
bushels of grain with his machine il
SO days.
The weather is apparently settled
again and the Kansans are having
fine weathe:.
A bigamist in Allen county has been
sentenced to the penitentiary three
months for each wife.
Most all the weekly papers now are
Dragging about the great trade enjoy
ed in their respective towns.
Two cases of diphtheria at the sol
diers' Orphan Home at Atchison, the
only cases there, have recovered.
The bicycles that have been put
away on the back porch for the past
week are being brought out again.
The past months pay roll on the
Rock Island is the largest since the
road built west of the Missouri river.
The Santa Fe railroad did quarter
of million dollars worth more bust
ness in October, 1885, than in October,
1897.
The butter which was on exhibition
at the Topeka state creamery conven-
ton is to be shipped to the Sandwich
islands.
Lew Headley has sounded the key
note for the annual roar against the
punly train service on the north prong
of the Central Branch.
The widow of the late Charles Cross
has delided to keep the insurance
money for her own support instead Of
contributing it to the assets of the
"busted" bank
In the state house vault which was
robbed the other day there are more
than Sc, 900, 900 in bonds belonging to
the school fund The bonds rest in
unlocked pigeon holes.
Ex-Kansans living in Kansas City
had meeting last week and organic
ed an ex- Kansans' club. The club has
an organization of 100, and it is ex-
pected that the number will reach
500.
A proclamation has been issued call
ing for special election in lola on
the goth of December for the purpose
of voting on the proposition to issue
bonds to the amount of forty thousand
dollars with which to purchase the gas
plant.
The number of real estate deals that
have been consumated recently in
Wichita is causing outsiders to wonder
if the town is not really improving.
The gloom of the busted boom has
long ago worn off and Wicl1ita is pick
ing up.
There is nothing man likes to hear
so much as divorce case in court.
There was one scheduled to come up in
Sedgwick county the other day and
men who had not been in a court room
for years before crowded into the
front seats.
George b. Palmer, Topeka under
taker, has attended five thousand
funerals in that city during the past
twenty-seven years. He has buried
three bishops, eleven clergymen, three
governors, one United States Senator,
four state senators and two librar-
ians
Four negroes went to the home of a
Russian near Dillon the other night
and one held the bedroom door while
one kept guard outside and the others
robbed the premises of everything
movable. They were arrested and
have been bound over to the district
court.
1t is reported that ]. X, Forney, the
Kansas creamery man, has gone to In
dia as missionary, but it is not stated
whether in the interest of Kansas but
ter, or Indian souls. There is one
thing certain, and that is, that who
ever eats Kansas butter will be the
better for it. It's evangelistc and
christianizing capabilities are simply
phenomenal.
George B. Doolittle who left Ford
county about one year and half ago,
and went to Arkansas with 81, 600 to
purchase cattle, and who was reported
killed or mysteriously missing, has re-
turned to his family, living in Ford
county. Sheriff Bell and the A. o. U.
w. lodge at Minneola, endeavored to
find Doolittle, Sheriff Bell having
made two trips to Arkansas without
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