This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Fm.2ADI/112 Message Board Post: ---------------------------------------------------------------- The Chanute Times Chanute, Neosho County, Kansas Thursday, September 15, 1881 Page 3 It has been reported that Jesse PAYNE, the person referred to in last week’s issue, died very suddenly at Eureka Springs a few days ago, but nothing definite has yet been learned of the fact. John CARTER has gone to Kansas City to learn by whom the drafts were endorsed. --------------------- List of Letters – Remaining in the Post Office at Chanute, for the week ending Sept. 15, 1881, and advertised on that day. BRANDON, Chas. BASTMAN, K.T. BOULT, Geo. A. CARROLL, Miss Theria DENNY, Geo. JOHNSON, John JOHNSON, Emil OGDON, H.J. PARKER, S.P. RICHARDSON, S.A. RUGLES, S.J. SMITH, Miss Fannie SMITH, Lewis SCHALLTON, Mr. TEFFT, Mrs. N.J. TERRILL, Miss Mary Persons calling for any of these letters will please say “Advertised.” J.B. BEATTY, P.M. ---------------------------------------------------------------- The Chanute Times Chanute, Neosho County, Kansas Thursday, September 1, 1881 Page 2 Death of Rev. D.P. MITCHELL – This eminent man in Kansas affairs died on the cars, near Newton, on the Santa Fe road, of heart disease, on the morning of August 25th. He had been to Colorado to recuperate his health, his wife accompanying him, and was on his return. He stopped the day previous at Hutchinson, to visit friends, leaving them in fair health and spirits. He was conversing at intervals with acquaintances on the cars, when he was noticed to suddenly throw his head backward, and expired. D.P. MITCHELL was a native of West Virginia, entered the ministry of the M.E. church in the Pittsburg conference in 1844, was transferred to Kansas in 1863, and has served the leading charges in the State, and three or four terms as Presiding Elder of different districts. He was delegate to the General Conference in 1860, 1870 and 1880. During over forty years of ministerial work, he has but once failed to be present at the annual roll call, - that was in 1878, when si! ck with typhoid fever. During the latter years of his life he devoted most of his time and talents to political labors. He became impressed with the idea that capital was becoming too powerful, and oppressive of the laboring classes, and assumed the championship of the poorer classes. He became the Greenback candidate for Governor in 1878, and for Congress in the Third District in 1880. There has been no more able advocate of this subject than Elder MITCHELL, and by his death, the Greenback party in this State loses its most able champion, one who cannot be replaced. During his ministry, he was acknowledged the strongest advocate of Methodist doctrines the church had in Kansas. His sermons were logical, argumentative, strong and clear; all could understand the weighty subjects which he presented so vividly, in sermons of from one hour to one and a half hours long. He attracted crowded houses wherever he preached. He was a tower of strength to Methodism in its early hi! story. But of late years this power of preaching, and attraction of audiences, failed him by reason of his chief talents being directed in other directions. At the time of his death he was about 65 years of age. He leaves a wife and eight children, three sons and five daughters. ---------------------- A strange freak of lightning occurred in Crawford county, two weeks ago. Two boys were in a swing, a small cloud passed over in the sky, but no rain. From it came lightning and struck the limb of the tree, thence followed down the rope of the swing. One boy was badly shocked and burned, all his clothing being torn from him, and he did not recover for several days. The other boy escaped with a light shock. ---------------------- A family by the name of STRICKLAND, from near Chanute, passed through town last Wednesday en route to Eureka Springs, Ark. ---------------------- Miss Jessie DANIELS and Mr. Oscar WRIGHT have been engaged by Col. TRENCHARD to assist him in teaching the Indians near McAllister, Indian Territory. They will leave next Monday. ---------------------- Page 3 -------- Mr. KINNEAR, who lives east of town, suffered a very serious injury one day this week, by partially falling down a well which he was digging. ----------------------- List of Letters – Remaining at the Post Office at Chanute, for the week ending Sept. 1, 1881, and advertised on that day. BURNS, Ed. BARLEY, John BARNETT, A.H. BROWN, Mrs. Emma J. FINK, Frank FRAZIER, J.C. HAGENS, Dan. HAM, John S. KELLOGG, Mrs. S.E. KNAPP, W.J. MARKS, Michael MEEKES, Wm. MURPHY, J.M. NEAL, John OLOSON, T.A. (2) PATTERSON, A. PRUNTY, Lee REED, Mrs. Anna ROBLSON, J. WOODS, Geo. Persons calling for any of these letters will please say “Advertised.” J.B. BEATTY, P.M.