The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1899-06-09

ter for the purpose OF going after gas
Miss Anna Murphy, Topeka school
teacher, is to become a Congregational
minister.
One of the drinky Indians who rob-
bed Brown county man is named
Min Ne-Hah.
The assessed valuation of Brown
county is just $9S greater this year
than in 1898.
A whisky drummer visited Wells
vile few days ago, and the women
chased him out of town.
There may be no deluge in sight but
Noah Cline is building forty-foot
boat for the Solomon river.
After a severe hailstorm in Doni-
phan county the other day there was
foot of cobbled ice in some places
The prettiest sight in the world is
dawn in Kansas just at this period OF
the year. 1t is not as comfortable,
but it is whole lot more artistic than
morning snooze.
The recent legislature made no pro-
vision for more than $500 copies OF
Secretary Coburn's reports to be pub
lished and Auditor Cole says he will
not issue a warrant for any number in
excess of that.
A man can follow Oil Inspector
Spencer around the state and make all
kinds of money betting that oil which
has been inspected by him will come
up to the test; that is, if he can find
persons foolish enough to take the
other side of the sure-thing PROPOSE
ton.
After the question as to where the
Twentieth Kansas is to be mustered
out is settled the ring will be cleared
and Everest, Fairview, Morrill,, Rob-
inson and Powhattan will be allowed
to fight it out and decide which of
these places is the third town from
the head in Brown county.
Kansas paper hangers and painters
have done more work this season than
in any spring for years past. This
means that the furniture men have
done well also When a home is
cleaned up the housewife never feels
Just right unless something new is
brought up from the furniture store.
1t is said that the recent hail storm
out in Saline county moved one farm
ers alfalfa crop down so neatly that
he raled it and put it up with as little
trouble as though he had cut it with
his own machine. Probably if the
storm had lasted little while longer
it would have finished the job and
stored the hay as well.
1t is not generally known but the
most extensive cabbage grower in the
state lives in Atchison county. His
name is Conrad Voell1er, and he has
10000 cabbage plants in the ground
and the patch, which is immense, is
without a weed He has raised cab
bage for thirty years and has never
had failure with early varieties.
Miss Colista Alm@r, 10 years old, ran
off with Sam Hacker of Pratt county.
Her parents overlook them and the
whole party rounded up in court,
where the parents charged that the
young lady was incorrible. A COM
promise was effected whereby the girl
consented to return home with her
parents, provided she would be per-
mitted to marry Hacker in two years.
When the waters winch had covered
his land receded a Cowley county farm
er and his hired men sailed forth with
clubs and pitchforks and killed S35
worth of cat fish which were browsing
on the young corn. Cat fiji are great
for corn. The government ought to
be made to pay for the corn that is
annually destroyed in Kansas by the
ravenous cat fish on their foraging eX-
petitions.
More papers are printed in Shawnee
than any other county in Kansas, and
all except one-the Rossville Times
are printed in Topeka.
A 17-year-old girl down in Lyon
county committed suicide because he1
1G-year-old sweetheart wrote her let
ter telling her that he no longer loved
her.
An ordinance was passed by the Ga
lena council recently which extends the
corporate limits of the city and there
by increases its population by about
1000.
Brown county farmers have succeed
ed so well with mutual insurance
company that the scheme may be takeI
up in Jackson county.
The county commissioners of Wyan
dotte county have granted request o
the Kansas City and Leavenwortl
electric road for right-of-way through
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