The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-10-08
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Abilene will have a football club
fully armed and equipped.
Five weddings occurred in McPher-
son in one evening last week.
Emporia has stray girl BABY, aged
about two years. Where she came from
is a mystery.
Two boys named Gorel and Alexan-
der were badly burned at Emporia
while throwing powder on bondfire.
Life will be worth living in Kansas
for the next three months if you are
out of debt and your digestion is good
Kansas is all right in the fall.
Topeka society people will not be
admitted to the dances given by the
patients at the insane asylum. The
wards of the state must be protected.
Better times are manifested in many
concealed ways. For instance, times
are so good that no one has taken the
trouble to predict an unusually cold
winter for Kansas this year.
Twenty years ago Mrs. Julia Mar
shall of Beloit filed claim against the
govern ment for $3.50 for damages sus-
tanned in an Indian raid. The claim
was allowed the other day, but the
plaintiff received no benefit, as she has
been dead several years.
J. A. Hammond of Smith county has
daughter who will be years old on
the Sd day of October coming, who
weighs 100 pounds. At birth she weigh
ed less than eight pounds. Her father
and mother are medium size, the father
weighing only 1855 pounds and the ma
ternal SHE of the house less The child
was of ordinary size up to three years
of age, when she began to manifest an
inordinate growth, which she has kept
up until the present, with fair pros
poets of increasing her avoirdupois.
A disease believed to be hog cholera
is prevalent in Montgomery county and
hogs are dying by the hundred. Every
effort has been made to keep the dis
ease from spreading, but it seems to
have gotten good foothold. Many
stock dealers have suffered heavily
while farmers who have been feeding
their corn to hogs in anticipation of
getting better prices, now see their Ia
bors lost. Whole droves almost ready
for shipment have been attacked, and
they died in few days. Some claim
the disease is what is known as swine
fever. They say it is similar to Texas
fever in cattle, and that the hogs catch
this disease by being near the bodies
of cattle that have died with the
fever.
Reports have been sent to the state
agricultural department some weeks
ago of damages being done in various
southwestern neighborhoods by large
swarms local grasshoppers, the secre-
tary at once referred the matter to the
entomologist of the state university
for advice as to com batting the pests.
He has received letter under date of
September 81, saying that in compli-
ance with his suggestion bulletin
will be issued by the university, giving
full data as to the prevention and des-
truction of the grasshoppers. 1t is
supposed that they are quite different
from the Rocky Mountain or migratory
locusts, as they appear to develop only
In Localities where their mischief is
done. AS rule the greatest damage
they are reported as doing this year
has been to alfalfa, for which they
have great fondness.
The Scadia Journal says that Re-
public county will haye 100000
bushels of corn.
The old settlers of Smith county
have perfected an organization by
choosing H R. Stone as president and
Lair Dean secretary for the first year.
1t is the purpose to enroll the names
of all the old settlers of the county
who were there prior to July /, 1874,
and annually celebrate old settlers
day in some town in the county. The
first celebration occurs October 6, dur
ing the old soldiers reunion. 400.
An epitaph in Kansas graveyard
reads. "He died in 1887 and for all he
knows the boom is still on"
A Kansas farmer who could not get
harvesthands put this sign upon his
fence: Harvesthands wanted, hired
girl, blonde and genial. Cabinet-organ
music in the evenings. Pie three times
day. Three spoons of sugar with
every cup of coffee. Hammocks, feath-
er beds or leather divans at your OPP
tor, for sleeping Rising hours o'clock
IN the morning. Three hours rest at
noon. Come one, come all!
The Abilene Chronicle says: The fool
statement that scarlet fever has secur-
I'D n hold in Abilene and il going the