The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-11-26

are happy but they are mighty lone
some.
There is rumor at Newton that the
Santa Fe will buy the Arcade hotel
there.
Nutting parties along the Walnut
river, IN Butler county, are quite
numerous.
A falling sign in Hutchinson knock
ed commercial traveller out and ruin
ed his hat.
1t is proposed TO have grand open
ing of the Topeka wooden mill on
Thanksgiving day.
The water that bubbles up from the
big Andrews gas well at Cherryyale is
said to cure eczema.
The hay crop of Butler county is so
short that the price of dry juiceless
grass has doubled up.
good, well managed creamery is
about the most valuable enterprise a
Kansas town can have.
The State bank of Walnut was forced
to close because of injudicious invest
ments. The depositors will be paid in
full.
A peculiar disease has appeared
among hogs along the Ninnescah river,
twenty miles west of Wichita. J.. Free
land, o. Smith and c. II. Boughman,
who live on adjoining ranches, have
lost nearly one hundred head each.
The disease does not appear to be con-
tagious, but is confined to that partic-
ular Locality along the river. The
animals, when taken sick, become
sluggish, but eat heartily of any feed
thrown to them. After day or two
thew refuse TO eat and become appar-
emily blind. When aroused and driv-
en- from their beds they often walk
straight against fence or tree.
They usually die within a week, and
examination of the stomach fails to
show anything that would indicate
disorder, except a reddish woody de-
post
AS is well known, western Kansas
is not reliable grain producing terri
tory ON account of the frequency of
drouths. Consequently the people of
this section are much interested III
finding out to what other uses their
farming lands can be proftably put,
in addition to stock raising. Some of
them have been experimenting lately
with bee culture, and have demon
strated that this is an industry which
can be developed in the dry counties
with every assurance of success. AL
falfa is sure and prolific crop through
out western Kansas, and alfalfa is one
Of the best bee foods for honey pro-
ducing purposes. The honey made
from this growth is of fine grade and
flavor, and will sell beside that made
from the choicest clover Experiments
were made last year in Finney county
with good gratifying results Any
farmer with field of alfalfa can start |
an apiary, and, in addition to supply
ing his family with all the honey it |
wants, can, in a very few years have a
neat and steady income at very
expense. The drouth. which units |
this section for grain growing two
years out of three, is not harmful to
bee culture, but, on the contrary, is an
advantage to it. Bees thrive better
where the winters are dry; wet cold |
weather is responsible for most of the |
diseases. The people of western Kan
sas and other dry localities will do |
we'll to give agriculture a trial. One |
apiary, near Garden City, consisting of |
l16 colonies, yielded $4,000 pounds. |
Next year the same concern, increased !
TO 240 colonies will yield at least 90
300 pounds. The best feature about |
this industry is that it costs practical
Iy nothing beyond little care and
trouble.
The Florence Bulletin makes the
statement that well-worn checker
board is always to be found in the |
business houses that'do not advertise
DIR. Charles Williamson of Washing
.on Kan, has written a book entitled |
pioneering in Kansas in the 'Fifties"
which will soon be ready for the pub
ic.
An Atehison man who rises the roof |
every time his mother serves him
warmed oyer meals, is beginning TO
AXE pleasure in the warmed over af- |
'ections of widow.
Steve Paul is under arrest at Garnett
charged with numbering his aunt, Mrs.
Isaac Paul, near that place two weeks
ago.
The county attorney of Bourbon
county has ordered three jointsts TAX
an back to Jail from a room in the
court house, to which they had been
taken for i'll health.
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