The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1899-10-27

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Katy track and then slid down the
Slight embankment on The other side,
carrying track and ties with it. The
engine is badly demOralized.
In front Of the engine was a noun
tain of broken timbers, twisted iron
and dead hogs. 1t is simply astonish-
ing to look over a wreck Of this kind
and note the complete destruction of
everything connected with it.
The only wonder is that more peo-
pie are not killed in such accidents
than are.
The wreckage is being fast cleared
away by the combined forces OF the
Katy and the Santa Fe. and by night
the trains will be running as though
nothing unusual had happened.
Mrs. T. A. Coffman is visiting in
lola.
George Alcock is on the road look
ing for grain.
Mrs. DR.. Fay and children are
visiting in Illinois.
Walter Lapham spent few days
at home last week.
Henry Record and family have
moved back to Chanute.
w. D. Cox, of Elsmore, visited
Chanute one day this week.
Mrs. DR.. Ralph Light is visiting
her parents and friends in Erie.
This is the last day to register.
Have you attended to that duty?
Mrs. E. Hall has gone to Wichita
to try and sell her property there.
Mrs. Jessie Shinn is being visited
this week by her mother, Mrs. Greene,
of Saltwater, Okla,
N. w. Henry, our hustling real
estate man, has gone to Kansas City
on business.
M. L. Wiser has returned from
Illinois, where he has been visiting
his sick father.
Mr.. and Mrs. Solomon were called
to Girard, Wednesday, by the illness
of Mrs. Solomon's mother.
Mr.. and Mrs. Linville are being
visited this week by their daughter,
Mrs. A1ise, of Leesyille. La.
-Ewens White, ex-Deputy Sheriff
of Wilson county, was in Chanute on
business matters last Tuesday.
We notice that J. P. Bell, former
editor of the Blade, has bought the
Neodesha Register. Good luck to you,
Mr.. Bell.
The dust that has caused so much
profanity for the past few weeks, has
now given place to mud, and the at
mosphere is cool and fresh,
Marshal Yockey seems to have
considerable business in the country
these DAYS. Ex-Sheriff Parsons wears
the white star in his absence.
-Drs. Roberts aud Mofitt, dentists,
have formed a partnership, and the
new firm will be known as Moffiitt q
Roberts. We can cheerfully recon-
mend the new firm as first-class work
men.
We are pleased to note the fact that
]. M. Allen, of Erie, has purchased
property in Chanute and Will soon
take up his residence among us. Mr..
Allen and his family will be quite an
acquisition for Chanute.
W. D. Cox, of Elsmore, Kan,
spent to-day IN the city calling on old
friends. Mr.. Elsmore taught school
in this county about fifteen or twenty
years ago.-Tribune.
That's a pretty good item for a be-
ginner, Mr.. Tribune.
We regret to note the fact that
Mr.. Phelps, the mill man, has sold his
residence in Chanute and will move
back to Erie. Mr.. Phelps and family
have won the respect and esteem Of
our citizens, and we very much regre'
to see them leave us.
| There now, girls, what have yot
been thinking about? You have lie
DIR. Shoemaker, one of the handsom
est men and best catches in town, i'm
port a wife. You had better petition
the council to impose a heavy tax OF
all such importatiUns.
The fence around the fourth ware
school grounds has been removed
The grounds look much neater thar
they did with an old tuinble-dowr
fence part of the way around. Their
it will be so much handler for the fes
tive COW when the ground is soft in
the spring.
Mr.. whiteside, who is here in thu
interests of the Developer, is arrang
ing to have some very fine cuts pre-
pared for his magazine. We hope thu
parties having these cuts made VII
| -. - 4f.av will he very