The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-10-22
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The bonds men of Dr. Ballou al
Hutchinson have asked to be released
because the doctor has been drinking
Denny Reed of Sherman City, Kan,
shot his wife twice and himself once
because his wife was sweet on dry
goods clerk. Both will recover.
Last week three men at Ottawa bare
ly escaped death by leaping from a
hand car which came around the curve
suddenly. The car was thrown high
in the air and mashed to pieces.
Trego county has reduced its mort
gage Indebtedness over $35, 900. Coun-
ty treasury is receiving five times as
much money as last year and farmers
are rapidly paying off their debts.
The stockholders of the Elmdale
bank do not intend to be discouraged
because the bank was robbed few
weeks ago. The capital stock will be
doubled and a nice stone building
erected this fall.
AS to corn the prospects of a month
ago have diminished until in several
counties the crop has been virtually
destroyed, while in a number of others
it has been greatly injured by the in
tense heat and lack of sufficient rain
fail. On the whole, however, very
fair crop will be raised, as in number
of counties the yield will be considera-
bly, in excess of last year. The reports
further show that in some counties the
price of corn has advanced over that of
last year. This may be accounted for
from the fact that the farmers of Kan
sas, especially in the western part of
the state, have gone very largely into
the business of feeding cattle, being
attracted by the good prices that now
prevail.
Word has been received from the
Mennonites who left Marion county
for Texas some time since. The story
says: "The first party of these colon
lists, numbering 73 persons, passed
through Dallas week ago travelling
overland in ''prairie schooners, with
good outfits of farm and household
goods and live stock. Saturday while
driving through Robertson county, 200
miles south of Dallas, were stopped by
armed men, who threatened them with
bodily harm and destruction of their
property if they did not turn back.
The leader of the Robertson county OBJ
iectors on horseback drew pistol and,
Selling the unarmed Mennonite leader
also on horseback, by the collar, rode
at gollop, pulling him after him, and
threatening to kill him if he resisted.
The Mennonite's clothing was so badly
torn that he was nearly naked when
released. He and his followers go I'M
armed, and are opposed to fighting, so
the party did as ordered and turned
back out of Robertson county. The
leader, whose name is Rev. Henry
Berthold desires to say that he does
not regard this treatment as charac
teristic of Texans; that with the ex-
ception of the Robertson county Incl
dent, the most hospita BILE welcome and
treatment have been accorded them
across the state. He says another par
ty of AZ are travelling ten days behind
them, and he will notify them and all
other colonists to avoid the Robertson
county trail. He says the plans of the
colonists will not be changed because
of this one rough experience, but that
the full colony plan will be carried
out.
The hog cholera which has been
raging in portions of Kansas for the
past thirty days, is abating. Many |
farmers have suffered heavy losses by
this epidemic, and it has made hogs
very scarce in the localities where it
prevailed.
No wonder the people of the whole
east are today talking Kar sas and
singing her praises. The total estima-
ted value of the products of Kansas
this year is Sl76, 366, $50, which is $1O,-
10000 in excess of valuation in any
former year.
A Butler county farmer went to the
bank and told the cashier that he
wanted to pay off $500 mortgage on
his farm. The cashier looked up the
mortgage and finding that it was
drawing per cent. interest. and was
not due till next February, he told the
farmer that it would nave to run to
that date. The farmer laid the $500 |
on the counter, pulled out bulldog
revolver, laid it beside the money, and
said he was going to pay that mort
gage The cashier delivered up the |
document and took the money.
Since the HUI mmel e. Hamilton cir |
Gus was in Pittsburg, a week ago, it |
has been discovered by the business
men that there is a good deal of coun-