The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-05-28
KANSAS ITEMS OF INrEREsT.

Larned has telephone exchange
with twenty-five subscribers and more
are daily coming in.
Wichita proposes to have the big
gest fair in Kansas this year instead
of an ordinary Fiesta or carnival"
Frank More, one OF the prominent
farmers of Sedgwick county, says we
are haying too much rain for the corn,
but that oats and wheat are looking
very fine.
Returns from eighteen townships
and cities in Phillips county show a
gain in population during the past year
of more than 900. In Kirwin the gain
is an even hundred.
The officers of the north central Kan
las soldiers reunion association have
fixed Concordia for the place of the re-
union and the date set for September
9TH to 10th inclusive.
Mr.. Dewey, who knows joke when
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Women clubs that their programs have
been huge jokes which have made the
members appear very ridiculous.
1t is said that the wheat crop this
year will be enormous. Also various
kinds of fruits are at present indicat-
ing good yields. In fact everything is
in the best of growing condition and
the average farmer is contented and
happy.
The contract has been let for the en-
tension of the electric street railway
from Pittsburg TO Fleming, stretch
of three miles of new track. 1t is eX-
pected that Robert Simons, the owner,
will then extend the line another three
miles to connect with the Weir City
inc.
People who have studied the situa-
ton say that as Topeka, Atchison and
Leavenworth are all in one congress
sional district now and candidate
from congress must be selected from
the three, that that corner of the state
cannot stand the strain and that the
guy ropes will break.
For several years 1t has been appar-
ent that it was but a question of time
until the exorbtant prices demanded
by the manufacturers of bicycles
would have to take a tumble. That
this theory has now become condi-
ton is apparent to those who have
investigated the strictly high grade
wheel just placed on the market by
the Harrah & Stewart Mfg. Co., of
Des Moines, la.
The Abilene Yale college class has
has bought and presented to the Pea
body museum a valuable meteoric |
stone. found three years ago on the
Smoky Hill river, this state. II weighs
% pounds and is twice the size of the
next largest stone in the museum, and |
the British museum collection contains
only two stones which are larger. 1t
has an enterprising meteorological
structure which will soon be tested by
ANALYSIS. The stone was found in Ellis
worth county by some land prospec
tors.
Frank A. AcoclIs, the man who start |
I'd out from GIidley four weeks ago to
walk around the world, carrying the |
stars and stripes and selling his photo
graphs on the journey as money |
making scheme, came riding back into
Gridley last Friday night on hay
rack Acoclls passed through Ottawa
Sunday, April IS, and a large crowd
gathered around him as he walked |
through the street next morning, He |
had got as far along as central Iowa
when he played out and started home
City Assessor Stinson has completed |
his assessment of El Dorado. The pop
ulation is 3,7O0, a gain for the year of
149.
The state of Kansas having failed to
comply with the terms OF the deed, A. |
w. Stubs claims the forty acres which |
he gave to the irrigation commission
two years age.
Atchison threatens to infict ball |
nine upon the state, and worse than |
that it proposes to work up league.
There is nothing so .wearisome as a
iimscrew ball team.
The convicts at the penitentiary will
have the same kind of uniform as the |
cadets at the Salina military school.
The eighth annual convention of the
Christian churches of the Second dis |
trict, embracing nine counties, will be
held at Ottawa May "a, 25 and 26. |
There are AZ churches in the district |
and it is expected that they will all be
represented at the convention. Rev. !
NJ. e. TIarlin, superintendent of state
work, will be present. as well as Rev.
Geo. Combs of Kansas City, Mo, and |
many other distinguished ministers.