The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-08-06
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

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City is the best in the state.
A number of Kansans are gong to
the Alaska gold fields seeking for
tune.
The hot winds from the south blow
directly from the newspaper offices at
Kingman.
Johnson City Is to have ball carni-
val August 18th. Two base ball games
sn the afternoon and grand ball at
night.
A base ball player at Newton was
fined SIS and costs for licking the nm
pire Sometimes it is worth that
much.
In an Arkansas City store young
woman is in charge of the overall and
young man presides at the corset
counter.
There are enough candidates for the
Wichita postofice concealed in the
high grass to give handsome Repub-
lican gain.
The postal department has promised
TO discontinue the newspaper train
from Kansas City to Newton as soon
as possible
The hardest proposition that the
public has ever been called upon to
tackle is that Western Kansas was
once lake filled with wales and other
fishes
The small boy base tall club of Mead
Is going to play the big girls The
big boys are putting the kids up to
some mean tricks, and an arbitrator
may be needed.
A McLouth man, after walking 900
miles and enduring all the hardships
has succeeded in securing about $780,
900 of Alaska gold His hardships are
now at an end.
Costa Rico, to which General Cald-
well has been appointed consul is
about half as big as Kansas. Fears
that it would not hold General Cald-
well may be dismissed.
In one Kansas town citizen is cam
paigning against Sunday evening
Church services on the ground that the
heat and bugs will damn more souls
than the religious exercises can save.
Farmers in South Dickinson county
report injury to the alfalfa from
small insect or worm that eats the
substance out of the leaves, nothing
but the skeleton remaining and max
ing the fiel DIS look white. Fields about
Navarro are badly hurt.
July 90 Barton county farmers begin
work on mutual irrigation ditch to
leave the river about four miles west
of Pawnee Rock and about ten miles
west of the point where the Koen ditch
taps the river. This ditch will be
built entirely by the farmers, and the
stock of the company will be owned
entirely by them. The ditch, when
completed, will be 80 feet wide and six
feet deep, and extend from the river
in a northeasterly direction, emptying
into Dry Walnut, about IL miles from
fhe point where the river is tapped.
This ditch will secure the undertiow
and overflow waters of the Arkansas
on the same general plan as that of
khe Koen ditch, but will in nowise in
terfere with the water supply for that
ditch. IL is said that there is no doubt
doubt but that enough water can be
secured the year round to supply both
bitches
Barton county is to have another
big ditch and the Arkansas river be-
low Barton might as we'll give up try
Ing.
A Wellington man recently counted
s25 stacks of wheat from the court
house tower, which gives slight idea
of the immense amount Of wheat har-
vested in Sumner county this year.
Wichita offers to give Mckinley a
good time if he will only stop there on
his western trip. AS if man who is
watched as close as the president is,
could have "good time" in Kansas.
Seed wheat is being shipped from
Abilene to Missouri
A steamboat captain in an early day
refused to let two Germans whose
coats had been stolen, eat at his table.
Dan Anthony was abroad and took his
pistols, took off his coat, gave it to one
of the Germans and while eating him
self commanded the German to eat; as
soon as the first German had finished
the other took Anthony's coat and ate.
Meanwhile the captain of the boat hid
out down in the engine room and pray
ed to be spared.
Forty-seven ont of 100 applicants for
teacAers' certificates failed TO make