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The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1911-09-21
Jimnie's

"Then Harry Miller didn't get It,"
vent on the heavy hitter; 1T bounced
:lean over the curb and went through
he window didn't know. cause
vas runnin' around them bases That
led the score" he added. hopefully.
but the game busted up because
sandman swiped the ball and
chased us all away"
Jimmie's father studied the problem
.,early minute before rendering his
decision.
Never mind. JIM" he said ut was
n accident. Here's a quarter. I'll
axe care of that window business and
II get that ball back, too. Run along
low and get your lessons"
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1911-09-21
Idaho lnter-Mountain Fair.

Boise, Idaho, October GA. Reduc-
ed rates via orkgcn short , Line,
Tickets on sale from Glem's Ferry
ana west, October 7th to 18th inclus.
I'VE From stations east of Glenn's
Ferry, October 7th to 18th inchs;va
Limit October 10Th. See agents for
TaCes and further particulars. S21-4t
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1911-09-21
A Remarkable Range

No one heard before of a range with so
many advantages for anything like this price
The hot blast combustion which saves the
wasting gases in the fuel. thus making one
bod of coal do the work of two I'm other
ranges, is only of more than a dozen
points of superiority which Coles Hot Blast
Range. the modern, up-to-date range has
over all Others fReE
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1911-09-21

ior Jewelry of every description. There
Is much to admire in our display Of
sparkling gems and attractive novel.
ues 1or the simple reason that o,r
assortment ds remarkable. It's only
necessary to look at what we have
10 see that this is the case. Yonr
eyes must describe it to you as We
,airilot attempt the task. Seeing is
nno"iilg' and in this case knowing is
almost equivalent to buying.
our Prices are Reasonable.
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1911-09-21
Misguided Energy.

I am bound to make noise In the
world" said the determined youth.
But be careful how you 20 about
IT." replied Mr.. Usage Spouter. AN
amateur with brass drum can snoIl
the enost symphony ever written"
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1911-09-21

tAoA CHAIR Win MS nanQS ClaSpId be-
hind him.
Nov, then, how did it happen ?" his
father demanded. Come on; out
with it,"
Jimmie hesitated and his mother
volunteered to supply the information
"Oh, 1t happened the way it always
happens" she said. He was playing
ball In the street again when I've told
him dozens of times not to. It's a won.
der to me the little savages don't
break twenty windows a day. Mr..
Handtmann came over here and said
Jimmie knocked the ball or struck it
or whatever they do, and 1t went right
through his side window and nearly
hit Mrs. Landmarks mother, where
she was knitting inside the window. I
told him you'd see him about it to-
night"
His father struggled to suppress a
smile and Jimmie thought he deserted
favorable symptoms
Il don't suppose old Handtmann was
fretting about his mother-in-law get
ting hit, was he?" he asked. "How
about it. Jimmie? am now waiting
for your version of this catastrophe"
We'll. we was playin' only a little
WHILE" began Jimmie, land we
choosed up sides and l was captain on
our side"
Where do you play?" asked his IA
ther.
Il was on -,cond so could tell my
side what to do" explained Jimmie.
His mother interrupted with frown
of Impotence. What has all that to
do with his breaking the Window"
she demanded. You're overlooking
the main point. as usual, William" \
We'll, wait a minute now" eau
toned Jimmie's father. "and We'll get
this thing Strengthened out So you
played second, did you? And then
what, Jim?'
We'll, Harry Miller's side made
three runs in the second inning" Jim
mic went on. land he was playin' right
field. He's bigger than any of us kids,
anyhow. He amt got no right to be
on team that's mostly only about
nine or ten. has he. PAP"
We'll take that up some other
time,' said his father. 81 want to
know about this Handtmann window
business. How did that happen?"
Il don't know how it happened"
Jimmie insisted, but Willie McGrath
got base on balls"
Say, have you youngsters got an
umpire in these games ?" his father de-
"Sure!" replied Jimmie. I'VE got
two-one on bases and one on the
home plate. just like the big leagues!"
What do you know about that!"
grinned his father, looking across at
the maternal frown. which was un.
even in the face OF this sur.
prising testimony.
And after Willie McGrath got on
first Chick Schmidt damned out hot
one that was good for two bases. but
hat ice wagon. McGrath. only got to
hird on It,"
HE should have scored easily.
shouldn't he?" said his father, sympa-
.hetically.
"William!" cautioned Jimmie's
mother.
Jimmie's father hastily returned to
he inquisition. And then what hap.
)ened?" he demanded
We'll. was next up and tried to
,ring 'em both home" Jimmie ex-
blamed. after I'd let a couple go
past me I seen a good one fioatin' up
Ind l pasted 1t to right field for a
home rum"
Good boy!" exclaimed his father,
His mother rose impstiently and
lounced out of the room.
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1911-09-21
Nugget Of Truth.

A pen may be driven. but a pencil
does the best when it is lead.
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1911-09-21

Curiosity makes innocent bystand,
RS OF US all.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1911-11-10
Indictment Against Appeal to Reason

Girard, Kan.-Postoffice Inspector
Chance called at the office of the APP
peal to Reason and notified the pub
Usher, ]. A. Weyland, that the federal
grand jury at Fort Scott, which meets
November 10, will be asked to return
an indictment against Weyland's news
paper charging it with circulating oh
scene matter through the mails. The
charge is based on the publication of
story in connection with an alleged
expose of improper conduct of the of
ficials of the federal prison at Leaven-
worth,
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1911-11-10
ERUPTION COVERED BODY

"Three years ago this winter l had
a breaking out that covered my whole
body. 1t itched so it seemed as If l
should go crazy. 1t first came out in
little pimples on my back and spread
till it covered my whole body and
limbs down to my knees, also my arms
down to my elbows. Where i
scratched it made sores, and the ter
rible itching and burning kept me
from sleeping. l tried several rene
dies all to no purpose. Then l con-
cluded to try the Cuticura Remedies. |
used the Cuticura Soap and Cuticura
Ointment, also the Resolvent, for
about four months, and they COM
pletely cured me of eczema. | have
had no return Of the disease since. |
never had a good nights rest after the
skin eruption first broke out till COM
menced using the Cuticura Soap and
Ointment. | had only used them a
few days before l could see they were
beginning to heal, and the terrible
itching was gone.
Those that lived in the house at
the time know how l suffered, and
how the Cuticura Soap and Ointment
cured me. | never take bath with
out using the Cuticura Soap, and l
do not believe there are better rem
edies for any skin disease than the
Cuticura Soap and Ointment" (Signed)
Miss Sarah Calkins, Waukegan, ILL.,,
Mar. 16, 1911. Although Cuticura
Soap and Ointment are sold by drug
gists and dealers everywhere, sam
pie of each, with 32-page book, will be
mailed free on application to "Cuti-
cura," Dept. X. Boston.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1911-11-10
SUNNY SLOPE FARM SOLD.
Burlington Man Latest Owner Of Fa'
nous Kansas Ranch.

Emporia, Kan.-The Sunny Slope
farm, consisting of 965 acres, has been
sold by Morris Pyle to e. W. Barker
of Burlington. With this widely
known Lyon county farm was sold a
tract of sixty acres, one-half mile west
of Prairie avenue, and house and
small place near the stockyards. The
whole deal involved 1,0321s acres, and
was sold for the substantial sum OF
$69.500, according to the sums named
in the deeds The Sunny Slope farm
alone brought 100000, C. A. Stan
nard, previous owner, bought the farm
for $4,000.
Mr. Barker is successful business
man, has lived many years in Burling-
ton and is one of the really substantial
men of Kansas. He is investing heav-
lily in land, owning 1000 acres in Cot
fey county, and having recently pur-
chased two sections of land in Butler
county. This is his most extensive
single purchase, however.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1911-11-10
Expect Arrest of Flack Soon.

Topeka, Kan.-It is rumored that
James A. Flack, the missing Abilene
bank cashier, will be brought back to
Kansas within a short time. Governor
Stubs has offered a reward Of $3.50
for Flack's arrest and conviction. The
State Bank Commissioner says there
will be no trouble about his conviction
if he is brought back. The reward was
asked for by Abilene people.
At the time the request was made
that a reward be offered it was rumor-
ed that certain people at Abilene be-
leved they knew where Flack was and
that they were willing to take chance
on going after him, if, in case the
clue was a good one, they would not be
out their money. In other words they
were willing to make a trip to see if
they had located Flack if the state
would pay the expenses in case they
were successful. Abilene people think
they have lost enough money on Flack
as it is and they. don't care to throw
much more after 1t.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1911-11-10
-FOUR KANSAS TOWNS
PLANNING To MOVE
COUNTY SEATS OF FOUR COUN-
TIES TO BE MOVED.
All of Them Will Be Put On Wheels
and Rolled Over to New Sites on
New Santa Fe cutoff.

Hutchinson, Kan.-Four Kansas
county seat towns are to be moved
bodily. All four towns will be lacked
up on wheels and rollers, pulled by
steam traction engines distances rang
ing from six to twenty-five miles and
set down on new townsites.
And all because the Santa Fe com
pany has decided to build an extension
southwest from Dodge City through
four southwest Kansas counties hither'
to rairoadess, Haskell, Grant, Stevens
and Morton.
This extension, 100 miles long,
from Dodge City to the Kansas-Colo-
RADIO line, will completely change the
map of Southwestern Kansas. In build
ing the road the Santa Fe company
will pay no attention to existing
towns or townsites.
The purpose is to make an airline
cutoff from Dodge City to Colmor, N.
Mex, which will shorten the transcon-
tinental line from Chicago to Los An
geles. The cutoff will follow a line
through southwest Kansas as straight
as a rule.
The four county seat towns which
will be moved bodily to the new rail-
road are as follows:
Santa Fe, county seat of Haskell
county, which will be moved six
miles.
New Ulysses, county seat of Grant
county, which will be missed by the
new line by 25 miles.
Hugoton, county seat of Stevens
county, which will have ten miles to
move.
Richfield, county seat of Morton
county, which will be moved eight or
ten miles.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1911-11-10
May Move Fish Hatchery.

Topeka, Kan-Prof. L. L. Dyche,
head of the fish and game warden OF
the state, threatens to move the state
fish hatchery from Pratt to Ell Dorado
if he cannot get the land needed for
additions to the hatchery at reason
able price. The eighty acres of land
at Pratt adjacent to the old hatchery
that were condemned are still in litiSa-
ton and the owners are making trou-
BILE for the state by holding up the
price. The professor figures that he
can get good land at Ell Dorado and
move the hatchery there cheaper than
he can get the Pratt land. He will try
to get the state to move the hatchery.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1911-11-10
KANSAS TOPICS
Train Prisoners In Road Building.

Leavenworth, Kan.-As an educa.
rional institution the Kansas state
prison at Lansing is developing rapid
ly. During the coming winter 300
prisoners, mostly long termers, will
be instructed in the art of fine road
building. In the spring they will be
put to work on the Kansas City-Lan-
sing road, authorized during the last
session of the Kansas legislature. An
instructor, probably road engineer,
will have charge of the class during
the winter months and it is quite
probable that the copvicts will be put
to work repairing roads in and about
Lansing, which at present are badly
in need of a new macadam surface.
1t is also probable that some of the
convicts will be put to work on the
first two miles of the river boule-
ward" this winter, although the state
penal board has not yet authorized
such step. According to T. j. Lie
ems. chairman of the board of county
commissioners Of Wyandotte county,
the work will be started at that end
in time to meet the convict road build
ers Of the line between Leavenworth
and Wyandotte counties.
Warden j K. Codding hopes to set
an example of fine road building when
the prisoners begin their work next
spring. 1t is his intention to demon
strate, if possible, the value OF con-
Wet labor on state highways construc'
ton.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1911-11-10
To Broaden Scope Of Work Done.

Lawrence, Kan.-That the Univer'
sity of Kansas is actually doing more
work along scientific lines than the
University of Wisconsin was revealed
by the trip made to that university by
Chancellor Strong. However, the fact
was also revealed that the University
of Wisconsin excels in the work that Il
is doing in connection with public util-
tiles. Along the line of broadening the
scope of the University of Kansas, the
state board of regents has passed
very sweeping resolution which
mems that the message Of the Univer-
sity of Kansas will be spread until it
mas been taken into every nook and
corner of Kansas.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1911-11-10
Not Enough Water to Attract Ducks.

Cottonwood Falls, Kan.-Cooler
weather is beginning to bring wild
ducks and geese into the country and
the shooting season has already start
ed According to hunters, however,
the ducks are not making many stops
in their flight southwark and this will
probably not be a very good hunting
season. Many of the creeks and ponds
which are generally covered with
ducks during the fall and early win
ter months are this year dry and the
birds seem to be giving these custom
airy haunts wide berth now Sports
men say water which has natural at
traction as the wayside stopping
places for ducks seems to be sadly
lacking here as we'll as in the counties
further west which these birds make
as regular highway in their annual
flight. Out in Stafford county, where
a large lake in the salt marsh region
is owned and used as shooting
ground by hunters of this place, the
lake is said to be completely dry. Or
dinarily ducks may be shot at almost
any hour in the day during the weeks
they are making their passage south
in the fall, and again in the early
spring when they fly north. Unless
rains come soon to fill up these lakes
and waterways, duck shooting, it is
said, will be very poor there this year
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1911-11-10
MADE CONVERT OF OLD SILAS
Member of School Board May Have
Had Deep Thoughts, but Anyway
He Was Satisfied.

The athletic young woman VINO
Taught the district school was on trial
for soundly thrashing seven uuruly
boys.
"You-you think you can control the
situation, do-do your inquired the
president of the school board, who
suffered.
81 can" replied the young woman
with considerable decision.
well, | don't know about this
grinned Silas Weatherwax. IF my
boy needs lckin' can give it to him
myself. l don't believe in miscel-
laneous lickins."
The teacher smiled.
Neither do l" she said. IF thrash
ings are to be administered | think 1t
much better for one person to admin
lister them. And after / have cleaned
up the school l may decide to go out
and clean up the township"
A moment later when vote of con-
fldence in the teacher was called for,
the eye, of Silas Neatherwax was
the loudest of all.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1911-11-10
Man Shot While Hunting.

Hutchinson, Kan.-Arthur Bailey.
forty miles west of Hutchinson, acct
dentally shot and killed himself, while
duck hunting. Bailey, with several
friends, had been hunting during the
morning and he had stopped for a
short rest, when the accident occurred.
He placed the stock of the double bar
relied shotgun on the ground and was
leaning on it with the barrels pointing
upward, when in some manner the
weapon was discharged, shooting off
both his hands, and large quantity
of the shot entering his windpipe.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1911-11-10
Accidental Discharge of Shotgun Fatal

Alexander, Kan.-Clayton Coventry,
a young man 2S years of age, the son
of Chas. B. Coventry, who lives about
five miles northwest of this place, was
killed instantly by the accidental dis
charge of shotgun. The charge blew
off large portion of the upper part OF
the head. 1t is not known how the gun
was discharged. Clayton and his
brother Pearl we're the only members
of the family at home when the accf
dent happened.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1911-11-10
Thieves rock Herd Of a cattIe.

Salina, KAN. II. Taylor, a farm
er near Tescott, has reported the theft
of forty-one cows, calves and heifers
from a pasture near his place some
time during the last ten days. The
cattle were put in the pasture three
weeks ago. No attention was paid 20
them until few days ago when he
found the fence down and the cattle
gone. A half dozen horses and cat
tie have been stolen recently but this
is the first time in a number OF years
that an entire herd has been stolen.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1911-11-10
Thief Steals Hotel Bible.

Salina, Kan.-An illustration OF the
greed of thief was shown in Salina
when Sheriff Burke completed his en-
animation of the contents of the suit
case of Louis Nichols, the Ottawa
county horse thief. Among other ar
ticles he found all neatly wrapped up
and carefully tucked away was copy
of a Gideon Bible which had been stol-
en- from some hotel where it is sup
posed that Nichols had stopped.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1911-11-10

The hoopskirt has appeared in
Paris, and the first one seen on the
streets created quite as much of SEN
sation as the first hobble skirt, and
doubtless will be quite as strongly
denounced. 1t has been so long gone
that not even the memory Of the good
old times can save 1t. In fact, If It is
imported as fashion, 1t will be SO
new as probably to receive more
reprobative attention than even cleo
ton frauds.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1911-11-10
WHAT'S THE MATTER
WITH YOUR BABY !?

Mrs. Dan Adams, Duquoin, Kas., and
Mrs. A. M. Morgan, Attica, Kas., the
only laxative given is DIR. CaldwelPs
Syrup Pepsin. 1t has been found to
answer most perfectly all the pur-
poses of laxative, and its very
mildness and freedom from gripping
recommend it especially for the use of
children, women. and old folks gener-
ally-people who need a gentle bowel
stimulant Thousands of American
families have been enthusiastic about IT
for more than a quarter of a century.
Anyone wishing to make trial of this
remedy before buying it in the regular
way of a druggist at fifty cents or one
dollar a large bottle Family size) can
have a sample bottle sent to the home
free of charge by simply addressing DR..
w. B. Caldwell, POI Washington ST.,
Monticello, Ill. Your name and address
on a postal card will do.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1911-11-10
wichita Men Took Swim in River.

Wichita, Ramon a wager suggest
ed by some of the members of the
Riverside club in this city, nine
Young men members of the club took
a plunge in the Little Arkansas river
the other day, palying a brief game
Of water polo. The wager was called
off after the men donned their bath
ing suits, but they went into the river
anyway. The thermometer in air
registered 81 degrees and in the water
"A degrees above zero. The men de
clared they enjoyed the PLUNGE.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1911-11-10

The young mother-and many an old
one, tools often puzzled to know the
cause of her childs i'll nature. The
loudness of its crying does not neces-
sarily indicate the seriousness of its
trouble. 1t may have nothing more the
matter with it than headache or feel.
course describe it's feelings, but as a
preliminary measure you are safe In
trying a mild laxative.
Nine times out of ten, you Will hnd IL
Is ali the child needs, for it's restlessness
and peevishness are perhaps due to OBJ
struction of the bowels, and once that
has been remedied the headache, the
sluggishness and the many other evil
dences of constipation and indigestion
will quickly disappear.
Don't give the little one salts, cathar,,
tic pills or nasty waters, for these VIII
act as purgatives, and they are too
strong for a child. In the families OF
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1911-11-10
9. w. students to Mission Fields.

Winfield, Kan.-Seven more persons
soon will be added to the long list oil
Southwestern Representatives on for
eiRp soil. Within the next thirty days
five people, who are graduates Of the
school, and two who have been more or
less cioesly associated with 1t. will sail
for foreign shores to take up the work
of missionaries. They are: Steedman
Adds, 10, and Mrs. Adds, '0s; Edith
Randall. IL; Charles E. Davis. II,
and wife, and Cyrus w. Severance. 'osi
and wife.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1911-11-10
Former Kansans Picnic.

Los Angeles, Cal.-"Tae Sunflower
State people drank twenty gallons OF
free coffee with their basket lunch
cons, heard good addresses and had an
exceptionally good time all around,
said H. H. Huntsberger, president OF
the Kansas society on the occasion OF
the fall all-day picnic of the society AZ
Sycamore Park. About 1900 former
and visiting Kansans assembled in the
shade of the sycamore trees. A large
number of sunflowers were in evidence
and each person was tagged with
his or her name and former Kansas ad-
dress.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1911-11-10
Entirely Bald in a Week.

Smith Center, Kan.-Doctors are
greatly puzzled over the strange al
Fiction that has overtakcn a man
named Miller at Lebanon. About ten
DAYS ago Mr.. Miller's fine head of hair
began to come out and inside of week
il was all gone and his head is now
bare of hair and as shiny as a billiard
ball. Even his heavy mustache came
out and he has not hair left en- his
face. He is a middle aged man and in
excellent health.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1911-11-10
Yates Center Man KILLED by Train.

Yates Center. Kan Lewis Oswald
an employee of the Missouri Pacific,
was killed in the yards here. He and a
brother were taking the numbers of
cars and failed to notice another string
of cars approaching them on the track
upon which they were standing. His
skull was crushed and death was in
Simultaneous. His brother was badly
hurt also.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1911-11-10
Bound over For Killing Farmer.

Garnett, KAMA. R. Dorsey, charg-
ed with having killed Henry Hinton.
an aged farmer at Birch Switch near
here last May, was bound over to the
district court by Justice Simon. Dor
sey also will have to stand trial on
a charge of stealing the valuable team
and selling it.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1911-11-10
For Western Tier Counties.

Tribune, Kan.-Several cars Of ties
and steel have arrived to be used N
the construction of the Gulf and North
western railroad, which is to be built
from Julesburg. Colo, to Oklahoma
City. Ok, and through the western
tier Of counties in Kansas. The survey
is completed. It will pass through st.
Francis, Goodland, Sharon Springs,
Tribune, Syracuse, johnson City, Rich
field and on to Liberal, all county
seats OF the counties in which they
are situated.