The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-07-23

iversity, from which DIR. ID. Ii. Holmes
resigned in June. Mr. Walker is an
instructor in Chicago university where
he has been the last four years, having
previously taught five years in other
places. He was educated in the Uni
versity of New York from which he
graduated in 1887. He is 80 years old,
an unmarried man, and had very fine
recommendations
Mama county has only $50 acres OF
castor beans this year, but the stand is
very good. Fruit, especially apples,
show bountiful yield The returns
show 101, 541 trees in bearing and the
standard varieties are in prime condi-
ton. Peaches will be only fair yield.
The 10000 trees in bearing are gener-
ally well loaded. Pears, plums, cher
ries and black berries are excellent.
Straw berries, raspberries, etc, were
up to the usual figures in growth and
quality. The $50 acres of sorghum is
growing nicely and will make molasses
enough for five counties like Miami.
The Hugoton Hermes says: "Speak-
ing of state flower, why not the
yucca filimentosa? The plant is per-
ennial evergreen; it's tall spikes OF
creamy white flowers are surprisingly
beautiful. The fiber is useful, too, for
many purposes, while the roots are an
excellent substitute for soap There
you have tan emblem of long life,
of purity, of stateliness, of usefulness,
of cleanliness. And, too, the long
stalk, stripped of it's flowers, make a
pretty fair CAD where trees are not
numerous This adds very materially
to its symbolism. We are for the yucca,
Kansas best and most beautiful flow
er, the stately soap weed"
The johnson City, Stanton county,
journal says ANDY Davis of Mitchell
township sold fifty head of yearIing
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81, 600. He bought these same cattle
last October for $40 a head. In other
words. he made $500 in nine months on
$500 Investment. BY the way, Andy
is not kicking any about this part of
the country. We do not want the
rustlers who are living in Eastern
Kansas, in the land that is visited by
floods, cyclones and other pests too
numerous to mention, to read this
item. The Short Grass fellows have a
cinch on the business of cattle raising
and do not want to give way to any
eastern man. We have good thing
and are selfish enough to want to keep
it undivided"
Judge Burris, in the district court
has decided an important legal ques-
ton and one which involves the title
to considera BILE land in Douglas and
Leavenworth counties. In 1862 Grant
Renfro, a colored man was married I'M
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ty, Missouri He and his wife Ann
lived together until 1867, or 1868, when
he left her and went to Bonneville,
where he was legally married to an
other woman, his slave wife remaining
in the country. Wife after wife died
until he had married to five, besides
his slave wife. Years ago he came to
Kansas and acquired some property,
selling one farm and buying another.
A year ago he died owning a valuable
farm near Lawrence, besides consider
able personal property His last wife
Wife No is also alive and has come
forward to dispute the claim of wife
No. to the property. Judge Burris
held that she was the legal widow of
Grant Renfro, the common law mar
riage made in Missouri being valid
one. This decision effects not only the
land owned by Renfro at the time of
his death, but clouds the title to the
real estate decided at various times by
him and his other wives.
At the meeting of the board of man
ayers of the Hutchinson reformatory
July IL, after good deal of delibera-
ton, the superintendent of the state
reformatory was finally elected. The
successful man is Judge Samuel w.
Case Of Ottawa. Judge case will as
sumo the duties of his Office Aug. Is.
He has lived in Franklin county for
the past twenty-six years. He was
probate judge of Franklin county for
two terms and since that time has
been in thereal estate business in OF
iowa.
The Great Bend Congregationalists
made net gain of twelve last week.
Out at Garden City a secondhand
baby buggy was shipped in from a
Missouri town. There was legend
to the effect that it had carried twins.
A Garden City man kept it for year.
He was presented with twins. With