The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-10-29
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.


the average for making flour.
The man at Ell Dorado who spends
the most time advising the people
about finance hasn't enough to flag a
breadwagon.
Two hundred and eighty-five men
are now employed in the Santa Fe
shops at Ottawa and the pay roll has
reached S., 900 per month.
The most prosperous spot on the
face of the earth to-day is Kansas.
The people ought to squeeze the juice
out of the situation while it is so plen-
tiful
The Harvey county Poultry associa-
ton holds its second annual poultry
and pet stock show at SedgwiclS, De-
cember II. A big prize list is to be
provided.
What has become of the Barton
county man who sent out story every
day of the wheat on farm paying the
purchase price and buying the adjoin-
ing township.
No man is true to Kansas when
he does not mark the prosperity items
of his home paper and send copies to
his friends in the east This ought to
part of every Kansan's religion.
The Missouri & Kansas Telephone
company will build branch line from
Wamego north into Nebraska, with
stations at Louisville, Myers Valley or
Broderick, Westmoreland and Blaine.
Ex-Lieutenant Governor Percy Dam
sition to make at the irrigation con.
gIess to be held in Nebraska. His
plan is to tap the Missouri river at the
mouth of Milk creek in Montana and
turn it's waters into canal that will
empty into the Red river of Texas.
The length of the canal would be 1,700
miles. The cost of the canal, in his
Judgment, would be $3O6, 100000. The
building of it would give employment
to the surplus labor of the nation, and
it would give the semi-arid of the west
an inexhaustible supply of water for
irrigation purposes.
The Rush Center Swimming station
will be shut down until such time as
the supply of milk will again justify
in operating it. For the past month
or two the milk supply has been fall
ing off steadily until last month, sew
eral days but about 800 pounds of milk
were received. This does not justify
the company in operating the plant,
as it takes about two thousand pounds
of milk to make the plant pay expen-
ses. The big wheat crop is undoutt'
eddy more or less responsible for the
shut down, as many quit hauling milk
altogether that would have continued,
had not the wheat crop proved such a
Klondi1e to them.
Chancellor Snow, of the University
of Kansas, has prepared memorial TO
congress, to be presented at its coming
session, asking that an appropriation
of 100000 be made to pay the claim
still pending at Washington for the
destruction of the old Free State hotel
at Lawrence, on May 81, 1856, by order
of United States Marshal Donaldson.
This is the claim given to the uuiver-
sity by the New England Emigrant
Aid society, of Boston, when that or
ganization disbanded last spring. A
vigorous effort will be made to secure
the final payment of this claim, and,
when secured to erect memorial
building with the gift.
A Salina man slept two days without
waking up.
John Lane, the singing preacher,
writes from Abilene to Dewitt Tai
mage, requesting him to deliver short
lecture to be reproduced by the vinti-
scope. He guarantees Mr.. Talmage
$1O 900 for Kansas alone.
The year-old baby of Frank Hagen
doffer, butcher at Everest, fell into a
bucket of soap suds last week and was
drowned. The mother missed the
child, and the town was searched be-
fore it was found dead.
There are more dogs in Great Bend
than are needed. Great Bend hasn't
gone to the dogs by good deal.
The A. B. Clippinger slate fence
factory, located in Centralia, is work
ing full time, day and night. 1t is used
to large extent in the west for cribb'
ing corn. He has orders ahead for Al
car loads, and orders coming in almos
daily. The slat fence is getting to bt
popular wherever tried. His trade hal
grown so rapidly that he has ordered
new machinery, and will double it
present capacity.
The dispatches few days ago stated
that the sheriff of Wilson county pour
ed forty cases of beer aud ITO gallon