The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1898-10-14


of Atchison, has consented to transfer
to an eastern pastorate.
Over 200 residents of Concordia sign
ed the petition requesting that the
state socialist ticket have aplace on the
official ballot.
While Rose of Hilo was in Topeka
she did not receive one proposal Of
marriage. She says so. Her beauty
was disappointing.
The Kansas supreme court for the
first time in years is up with the docket.
This is the result of the establishment
of the courts of appeal.
The wheat acreage in Decatur coun'
ty for next year will be much larger
than this year, which was the largest
in the history of the county
A conservative estimate of the cattle
to be fed this year in Decatur county
is placed at five thousand head, be
sides not less that ten thousand stock
cattle.
1t is talk in railway circles that the
Missouri Pacific will shortly make
changes in its freight divisions which
will add over 100 families to Atchison's
population. The company, it is said,
will adopt the policy of larger freight
divisions and will run trans through
from Atchison, Kansas, to Omaha,
Nebraska.
Among the new improvements in
Decatur county is the completion OF
the Jackson elevator, with daily ca
pacity for handling 10000 bushels of
grain. j. J. jackson, the proprietor,
handled IS carloads in and out in 1897
while this year he will load not less
than $50 cars.
The commercial club at Atchison
has appointed committee to wait on
the express companies doing business
at that place and prevail upon them to
quit retailing produce and fruits in
competition with local dealers The
express companies and their agents
have been more active than usual this
summer, and have turned their offices
into regular commission houses and
supply depots for fruits and produce.
Reports from Somerset, twelve miles
from Palo, tell of the suffocation of
three men in well on the farm of
James Harner After an explosion of
dynamite in the bottom of the well
William Ballard, Burt Purvis and John
Gatlin went into the well, one after
the other. When no sign came from
the men below Ben Golfer was sent
down with a rope tied his body. Golfer,
too, succumbed to the deadly gases,
but not until he had tied rope around
the body of one Of the men, John Cat
lin, who was brought up in a dying
condition. Ballard and Purvis were
brought to the surface dead. Golfer
was revived.
Henry G. Morgan, Fort Scott boy,
sends the following funny musical in
cident of the taking of Manila: 'In
the trenches of the Spanish as we came
over them we found blankets, clothing
and all kinds of equipments, showing
that they had left their places very
hurriedly and were awful glad to get
away. We marched along the streets
skirmishing with small bands until
about 2 o'clock, when the white flag
came up on the big fort in the walled
city and Manila was ours. Just after
raising the flag on Fort Malate few
stray bullets got over our way and we
got down behind a stone wall, next to
the bay, where we heard some music,
and behold, our band had got in front
by mistake and were playing "a Hot
Time in the Old Town Tonight. .
They were making so much noise they
could not hear the bullets whiz-until
the finished the piece-and then as
they stopped and bullets went zip, zip,
you ought to have seen them get down
on their breasts behind the stone wall.
But it was great to hear that tune
right where the bullets were flying
thick and see the band marching along
in column of fours as unconcerned as
you please"
ExposItion's Fin ancial Success.
Everyone interested in the welfare of
the western country will be pleased to
hear of the wonderful financial success
of the Trans-Mississippi Exposition,
now nearing the close of its five months
run at Omaha. If its gates were closed
today, there is money enough in the
bank to pay every dollar of indebted
ness and return to the stockholders a
large portion of the stock subscriptions.
If there is any truth in the old saying
that nothing succeeds like success"
the month of October should be marked
by prosperity, precedented in the
history of expositions.