The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1898-08-12

has been struck at lola.
Ellis county has ordered ballots
printed for it's soldiers.
Atchison Anti-Horse thief associa-
ton is doing good work.
The Pottawatomie Indians are laid
up as a result of the green corn dance
at Holton.
A tramp who begged for bread was
fined $40 at Hiawatha recently. He
paid the fine.
John Slower, of Lecomptom, was
drowned recently while swimming in
the Kansas river.
There are now 036 prisoners in the
state penitentiary; an increase of for
ty-four over 1896.
The Minneapolis creamery burned
on the night of August 8. The loss is
estimated at $4,000.
Prices of gas has been reduced in
Lawrence, and girls with stingy papas
and many sweethearts are rejoicing.
There are no hot winds in Kansas
this year. They had about petered
out last year. There is something in
the cycle of seven years.
The Twenty Kansas regiment
at Washington, Camp Alger, has more
educated men in it than any regiment
that ever went to war, in any country.
An Anthony youngster who is I'M
doubtedly bright beyond his years,
mixes patriotism with religion. The
other night he shocked his mother by
delivering the following invocation:
"Now 1 lay me down to sleep, I pray
the lord my soul to keep; if Uncle Sam
don't lick Spain I'll never say my pray
e1s again. acknowledgements the
Maine"
Cherokee is without a zinc plant.
The Cherokee-L anyon Smelter Com
panys zinc plant shut down there on
the first of the month. This plant
was built about four years ago by an
eastern syndicate. 1t was partially
destroyed by fire two years ago, but
the Cherokee-L anyon Smelter Com
pany rebuilt it, and have operated it
ever since.
Mrs. P. A. Ray, an Independence
lady was exhibiting four specimens OF
home grown tomatoes on the streets of
that town the other day which deserve
a position at the top of the column.
The combined weight of them was
six pounds, and one measured eighteen
inches in circumference. A system of
assists her plants in thus
themselves.
And now the whisky CRATER Some
weeks ago a fellow who had heard
that the wheat raising farmers OF
Summer county had more money than
some people had hay, concluded to go
lown among 'em and do little harv-
esting on his own hook. He represent
ed himself as an agent for whole
sale whisky house of st Louis, and
had little difficulty in taking orders
10 the amount of between $3.50 and
5000. His house, he told his customers,
required cash in advance, and after
gathering in the coin, he departed to
get the whisky. The good people are
still waiting for their whisky.
Lee Bland, a Nemaha county man
who is at Dawson City recently wrote
l letter home which shows that he is
n a very Disguised frame of mind.
After quoting some of the exorbitant
prices prevailing there, such as apples
It fifty cents apiece, rubber boots at
rs pair, etc, he says: "Peolpe on
he outside have a great idea of this |
country. They seem to think that a
nan can come in here and pick up |
ortune in few days. l have never
cen such disappointed people as the
of those coming in now. |
some few last year did make fortune
n very short time; but they should |
emember that they only hear of those
Who make something, while they do
lot hear of those who make nothing; |
md where one man made money a |
lozen or more made nothing"
Chinch bugs are Fostering the millet |
lelds of Usage county. No one ever
las good word to say for the chinch |
Jug, and yet at the same time he pos
esses some qualities that are worthy |
# emulation. He is tireless cuss,
md no one ever yet said that he was
lot perseverance personified. And
hen he is no kicker, either. The
,hinch bug is disposed to take life
Ind everything else that comes his way
Just as he finds it, without chewing
he rag in any degree. If he can't get
INTO a field of wheat or corn, he will
AXE millet or almost any old thing
hat comes along and always manages
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