The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-04-23
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The Presbyterians OF Pratt have
bought judge Bashore's house and
after purifying it will use it for par
sonage.
One of the youngest doctors gradu-
ated at Topeka this week is under
conviction of completely in grave rob-
bling.
The return of a number of Kansas
statesmen from Washington deprives
Mr.. Mckinley of a lot of valuable adj
visers.
There is merchant in Logan county
who sold goods payable "when Bryan
is elected" You can guess who he is
in favor of for president in 1900.
Six weeks ago an Atchison woman
announced to her friends that she had
decided to move to Chicago Since
then the local papers have kept cases
on her daily and she likes it so well
that she has not departed yet
A Garnett woman got ratified when
she went to vote the other day and
handed the judges letter to put in the
ballot box instead of her vote. When
it was handed back to her she said:
"Oh, did forget to put a stamp on it?'
Rice county was visited by another
big rain on the nigh of April 6. Never
before has the ground been more thor
oughly soaked at this time of the year.
Crop prospects at the prasent time
could not be better. An increased
acreage over last year of both corn and
broom corn has been planted.
The chief of police of Wichita was
last week presented with gold star
by the members of his force. The
badge is a star of solid gold. The
front is an elegant design of frez tan
gent and carved on the back was ITO
VIM. Campbell, Chief of Police, From
the Police Force"
The prairie grass is exceedingly for :
ward this year and only needs few
more warm days to push up and con-
ceal the brown stubs of last years
crop Grass-short, curly buffalo grass
is the most valuable crop ever raised
in western Kansas if harvested right
ly; and the only way to properly har-
vest the same is through the medium
of the COW.
A superintendent of public schools
says that country children are better
fitted for the business of life than are
their city cousins. He draws his con-
illusions from the answers which chill
dren of both kind have given to this
question: ''If should give you dol
lar what would you do with it?" The
country children have better business
ideas, because they hear their parents
discussing their business affairs of the
household. They know how much the
COW brought and the prices of eggs
and butter. Town children seldom
hear business affairs discussed.
The Emporia Gazette says: "All the
truck that Kansas raises, her wheat,
her corn, her broom corn, her beef, her
hogs, her timber, her sleeps wool, is
dumped raw into a. box car and ship
ped out of the state-often thousand
miles away-before it finds a lot of
men to work who will turn it into the
finished product. There is place in
Germany or Holland that is noted for
the large per cent of stupid people in
its population, but no one in that town
ever thought of giving every mouthful
of victucl and every stitch of clothing
he wears, a two thousand mile before
using it, That's what Kansas does.
that is the shame of Kansas.
On a Kansas train certain man was
in custody of an officer. When the
conductor came around the officer was
absent. The fellow did not have any
fare and the conductor put him off and
the train sailed away.
This talk about the short grass not
being productive is rank stuff. Norton
county has baby 80 months old that
weighs 11s pounds. The name of the
child is Mamie Chambers, Assuming
that Mamie will keep up her lick and
reach her growth at 20 she will weigh
ss5 pounds.
]. L. Kise, Sumner county man
has a bunch of carrier pigeons which
he turned loose at Mayfeld the other
day and started them for Wellington.
Five of the eight birds made the TRIP
of nine miles in twelve minutes, or al
the rate of forty-fve miles an hour.
The Kansas Creamery Company
which has factories in the northern
part of the state, has completed az
rangemcnts for the establishment a
Wichita of large factory. Swimming
stations will be located Throughout
southern Kansas and Oklahoma.