The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1899-08-04
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The Kansas militia is to receive at
once from the government 1900 stand Of
arms and other equipments.
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Miss Mae Stafford was unfortunate
enough to sprain her ankle accident
ally lately.-Tribune. We supposed
she did it on purpose.
1t is not considered proper to
strike lady, but when we see wom-
an on the street in mothcrhubbard
we always feel like giving her belt
Blade. Is that all?
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Bro. Fisher came in from the. new
gas well Tuesday evening with his
face about as long as grape vine. If
he gets much worse his wife will have
| to be sent for.
Charley Allison now smiles till the
bald spot gets down on the back of his
neck. 1t was to have been named
Dewey but they have had to change
! the name to Dewena.
! Have you noticed how toney Geo.
Wilder has got lately? He has clean
ed up and re arranged his store room,
painted and papered it till it looks as
neat and tidy as a bran new place.
Mayor Roe says that no one will be
licensed to sell Intoxicating liquors in
Chdnute while he is mayor. Pretty
good John we never believed in licen-
sing sin that good might come of it.
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Luetgert, the Chicago sausage max
er, who tried to make sausage of his
wife was found dead in his prison cell
few days back He died from fatty
degeneration OF the heart.
1t seems possible that Tom Ander-
son of Topeka may get place at last.
it always seemed to US that that bald
head of his and those dlstingue whisk-
ers should secure him almost anything
he might ask.
Superintendent Sailors was in the
city Tuesday night. Abe came up on
little business matter and to see ouI
new gas we'll come in. We hope his
business matters were more OF sue
ces than the new well.
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Bert Griffith is around town again
apparently about as well as ever He
got pretty we'll jolted up that time
We cant see for the life of us what
those two girls were doing that they
. did not hold him in the buggy.
The clammUr to have the city
drill gas well or two west OF town Is
about as senseless at the present stage
of developments as the investment o1
large sums of money in shale lands II
Western Kansas in hopes of finding
gold.
= And now comes Mike Sutton, {
e friend Of Senator Bakers, and ask
5 Mr.. Burton to quit and let Mr.. Bake
have another tearm in peace. Die
? Mr.. Sutton ever stop to think that i
e might simplify matters equally wei
e for Mr.. Baker to quit?
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The poor BOYS of the goth after en-
during the hardships of Philidpint
: campaign must soon face the organic
: ed campaign of all the girls of Kansa
e which will doubtless be more tryinI
on their nerves than the one the.
have just passed through
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!. IT. B. Limbocker's chicken nous
= becoming infested with mites, Ton
i decided to smoke them out, so h
o scattered little straw around in tn
house and set it on fire. 1t worked
like a charm He got rid of tn
mites in short order and likewise o
his chicken house.
There were lot of badly disappoin
ted men last Tuesday evening at tn
new gas well. They went down full.
expecting to see finer flow of ga:
I than in the first but were doomed Il
> disappointment. They struck the SAM
all right at about the same dept as il
: the other well but she was dry.
John j. don't seem to have got tina
corn knife sharp yet. Leastwise h
doesent seem to be infusing mucl
young blood into the party of Kansa
> as yet. We think the kind OF bloo'
q that John I would infuse in a DOliti