The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1899-01-27

Scranton, which is long on love foI
genteel sport, expects to have an all
star base ball nine to put in the field
the coming season.
Five former officials of Greenwood d
county have fled suits for back salal J
they allege is due them, the amounts
ranging from $los to $1,000.
The total net reduction of real es
tate mortgage Indebtedness in Elk
county for 1898 came very close to the
hundred thousand dollar mark
One day last week 1O7 loads-of wheat
were marketed in Russell. They aver.
aged fifty-fve bushels to the load
running the total very close to 5000
bushels.
An Atchison young lady declined an
invitation to become member of the
pleasure party aboard the steam launch
Paul Jones, which is believed to have
been lost at sea with all on board.
The lottery scheme for building g
hotel at Ottawa is go. A $4,000
building will be put up and divided
into five shares of $4,000 each. These
will be the capital prizes of the draw.
ing.
The seven-year itch has broken out
in district school in Atchison county.
An old saying is that when a person
has the itch for seven years he catches
it from himself and has it seven years
longer.
A Beloit man has been in the coal
business for twenty years. Think OF
the untold millions he must have
boarded away as the result of conduct
ing such business that length of
time in section where it is either
burn coal or freeze to death.
Walter Stevens, formerly of Beloit,
failed in his endeavor to be elected
speaker down in Oklahoma, but o. G.
Palmer, another Kansan, formerly OF
Jewell City, Alton and several other
points, was made chief clerk of the
senate at Sc a day for ninety days.
A Wathena citizen who recently re-
ceived letter informing him that by
the death of relative in England he
was to receive a legacy of 5000,
thinks he is being joshed, and refuses
to do any hurrahing until he finds out
that it is straight goods. He is inves-
tigating the matter.
When wheat is selling at low price
the average farmer is apt to be some
what more liberal about sowing seed
than he would be if it were worth a
high price. Whatever the price may
be, it is waste to SOW more seed than
necessary for the production of the
largest crop the soil will mature.
A Woodson county man was hand
ling target rifle the other day, when
it was d: charged, the bullet entering
one of the legs of his wife. The wound
inflicted did not amount to much. An
Osborne county man was guilty of
similar piece of foolishness couple of
years ago. The result was that his
wifes leg was amputated at the knee.
In the last issue of the Topeka Mail
and Breeze there is story about AL
bert Reid, an artist on the Kansas
City Star, who furnishes the excellent
cartoons which appear in the former
paper. Reid is Kansas boy-a west
ern Kansas boy-whose successful ca
reer is watched with great interest
and satisfaction by many friends in
his native state.
Something unusual is on the tapis
down at Westphalia The postmaster
is going to give up his job. More than
that, he is going out on his farm,
where he thinks he can do better The
spectacle of Kansan letting go his
grip on an Office simply because he can
do better in some other occupation is
enough to make the average mans
eyes bug out wildly.
A Sheridan county farmer came into
HoXie the other day for the purpose of
paying off notes to the amount of $500
that he had given for having about $40
worth of lightning rods put up on his
place. He takes the joshing of his
neighbors good-naturedly, and is not
saying much; but the next lightning
rod agent who ever tackles him with
an eye to doing business will be hor-
rible wreck before he has an oppor-
tunity to get fairly started on his
spiel.
A peculiar suit will come up before
the Lyon county court this term,
brought by man against his daugh-
ter. The girls mother died some
months ago, and since then she has
acted as her fathers housekeeper, in
consideration of which he decided to