The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-11-12
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

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brick yard is being laid down in Cher
ryvale.
There is Buzzard in the peniten-
tiary recently sent from Waubaunsee
county.
The onion crop of Meade county is
threshing out three hundred bushels
to the acre.
Parsons people have 100 men putting
in the mains for the gas from the Neo-
desha oil fields.
The registration at Newton is 1899,
being ninety more than a year ago.
Newton is growing.
A vitrified brick plant at Cherryvale
will be fired with natural gas. 1t will
be the largest in the state.
A farmer living near Centralia has
on exhibition stock of corn on which
are six well developed ears.
The Kansas Building Loan league
will make demand for better state
law goyernoring associations.
The Kansas University football
eleven won out over the Iowa eleven.
Outside of Lawrence no one cares.
The Armours will use Kansas stone
in their packing plant at Omaha, talk
ing it from quarries near the town of
Irving.
The eastern Kansas girl who put on
mems clothes and tramped to Chicago
is as good an advertisement for Kan
sas as the man who started patent
egg foundry.
For the first time since the Kansas
fruits were first shipped to foreign
markets the demand for them is salts
factory this year, at prices profitable
to the exporters. The reason is that
the fruits sent abroad last month were
of the best quality, that they were
more carefully packed than formerly,
and that the provisions made for their
transportation across the continent
and across the Atlantic was of more
scientific character than it had been in
other years.
Alfalfa is the coming foliage crop of
the valley. Most tame grasses will
not do we'll in this country, but alfalfa
once started will stand the dry weather,
is very productive, three crops of hay
being harvested on an average every
season, not counting the seed, which
when threshed out brings good price
Alfalfa is much more nourishing than
prairie hay, and an alfalfa field is a
perfect gold mine for hog raiser
The one draw back of this country has
been the lack of tame grasses and
alfalfa supplies the long felt want
Some time ago the body of man,
supposed to have been murdered, was
found in straw stack near Arkansas CT
ty. AS yet he has not been identified
The DESCRIPTION of the body corresonds
to that of Lyman Smith, who left the |
home of his brother east of Mulvane |
to go to Oklahoma Nothing had been
heard of him since then, and his rela-
tives there have instituted a search. An !
90 ,,,,1 1Do 70 Il ha hOlr- |
of the murdered man exhumed. When |
he left there he had $500 in money and |
a good team and wagon. The supposi
ton is that he has been murdered for
his money. He had not lived in Null
vane for several years, but had been
visiting relatives there before he start
ed on his last trip
Secretary Coburn says that Mann
Bros & Frisbie of Wilder are the pota-
to kings of Kansas. They shipped 257
cars, amounting in all to 1885, 900 bush
els, this year. They go to every part
of the country. This firm expects to
plant 500 acres next year.
The Newton mills broke the record
last month in the output of flour. Six
teen cars have been exported. The
two mills are kept running all the
time, the aggregate capacity being 525
barrels day. The capacity of the
new mill will be 400 barrels day.
The entire national guard OF the
state of Kansas will hold their annual
encampment at Fort Riley during the
fall maneuvers next month.
Every time an old settler dies in
Kansas his farm is divided among his
children. The forward march of the
forty-acre farm in Kansas has already
begun.
Six years ago Senator Taylor shipped
the first car load of potatoes sent out
from Edwardsville, Wyandotte county.
Now the annual shipments amount to
more than forty cars
Neodesha will issue $780, in bonds
and build city water works.
As is usual in Kansas the police made
all kinds of threats about what they
would do with the boys if the boys
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