The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-06-25

it.
The tanth annual session of the
Lane County institute has opened at
lDighton.
Gold has again been discovered II
Trego county. That shows how dul
news is.
The city of Kiowa has ceased to be
third.class postoffice and has become
fourth-class.
The county officers of Saline county
and their wives gave party in the
court house.
Ewing Herbert concludes that ar en-
gagged girl has right to eat ice cream
with another man.
An evangelist is preaching at Osa
watomie that the world will come tc
an end next month.
There is plenty of water in the Ar
kansas in Western Kansas and the ir'
rigatng bitches are running.
A poor man in Western Kansas went
to church in suit made of flour sacks
and was accused of being sacreligious.
Six freezers of ice cream were open
ed at Dodge City when the news came
that Mike Sutton was appointed inter
national revenue collector.
The state normal school will here
after confer the degree of bachelor Of
pedagogy. The degree of old maids OF
pedagogy will not be given.
The Sucker Mining Company" has
been organized at Pittsburg. The
name sucker is usually not applied to
a company when it is first organized.
The Santa Fe has it's steam pile dri
yer at work at Great Bend putting
down the piles to build the trestle
work across the irrigation canal where
it crosses the roadway.
The ladies of Liberal will give a
museum show for the benefit of the
base ball club, which is better than
giving the proceeds to the heather
who don't know base hit from a foul.
The Kansas Grain company's eleva-
tor at Hutchinson, which was partially
destroyed by fire recently, will be re-
built Immediately. The work will be
pushed SO as to haye the elevator
ready for this seasons crop.
Two car loads of mules have been
shipped from Strong City to Arizona
to be used in building the Santa Fe
dams in that territory. They have
also CONNIE fenced sending men there to
work.
County Clerk Neihaus has completed
the footing up of the returns OF the
assessors for Leavenworth county.
The total population of the county is
35,56S, gain of about 1000 over last
year Half of the gain was in the city.
The city assessor of Kansas City,
Kansas, has filed his report with the
county clerk showing the census of
1897. According to the assessors fig
ures, the city has population of Al,
152. This shows slight increase dur
ing the past year. The census of 1896
gave the city only 4o,s7o, slowing a
gain Of 2s2.
The assessors returns of Lyons
county are in. The county has lost in
population 197. The only townships
reporting loss are: Agnes City 21o,
Ivy 81, Center So, Emporia City loses
413. The total population is "a, 124. The
value of farm lands has increased
$619, 1863 in the past six years. There
are 22,560 more acres of corn than in
1890 and 800 more acres of alfalfa,
5000 more swine are ea ting Lyon coun-
ty corn and alfalfa and the value of
animals slaughtered and sold during
the past year is $3.50, 427 greater than
in 1890. Lyon county farmers are not
planting as much wheat and oats as
they did. Sheep show the only de-
crease in stock.
Two dollars day and board will be
about the wages of harvest hands in
Western Kansas this season.
Near Meade, Miss Laura Reach and
Mrs Mort Wilson and four children
were driving down steep hill in wa
gon. One horse kicked at a fly, got
his leg over the tongue, which broke
and down went the wagon. The bro
ken tongue stuck in the GROUND, COM
pletely up-turning the wagon bed and
imprisoning all of them under it like
chickens under tub. The horses
broke loose. No one was hurt.
The Leavenworth Home difficulty
is good deal more exciting and war
like than the Greek-Turllish scrap
Probably the first shipment of wool
ever made from Meriden was the con-
signment of 1,4OO pounds from w. C.
Fowler to the E. c. Taylor Commission
company of ST. Louis. Mr.. Fowler