The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-05-21
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Major Henry Inman is in New York
10 have his book published. Buffalo
Bill will pay the bill.
A young lady from Manhattan nam
ed Holler is visiting Ellsworth. The
Ellsworth girls don't holler.
The Frisco branch between Arkan-
sas City and Anthony, which is spor-
adic affair which runs when it wants
TO and stops when the people don't
want it to, has decided to carry mail
June /.
From all parts of Kansas comes en-
couraging crop reports. Since the re-
cent cold rains the chinch bugs have
all disappeared and left the beautiful
wheat fields unm olested, and in good
condition.
For several years it has been appar-
ent that it was but a question of time
until the exorbitant prices demanded
by the manufacturers of bicycles
would have to take a tumble. That
this theory has now become a 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.
Ed Bussey, until recently travelling
salesman for st. Joseph dry goods
firm and well known to the trade in
the west, was found guilty at Howard
of enticing two Augusta, Butler coun-
ty, girls from home for immoral pur-
poses, Bussey was tried at Eldorado
recently and hung jury resulted. A
change of venue was granted to Elk
county. Bussey took two Augusta
girls to Kansas City last fall, where
they were detained several days when
he was arrested.
]. S. Taylor of Smoky township,
Sherman county, will this season ex-
pertinent with some prehistoric corn"
the seed of which was taken from
mound near the Mississippi river. Last
year the Missouri state agricultural
college planted some of the same seed
and the management reported favora-
bly,, and was well pleased with the
growth and yield of this ancient spe-
cies of maize. The plant is said to be
very hardy and grows rapidly, bearing
from four to dozen ears on each
stock. The leaves are very wide, some
measuring a foot across, and contain
more nutriment than the fodder of a
common stock of corn. The seed is of
a reddish cast and is of the Dent varie-
ty One of the peculiarities of this
great species of corn is its extensive
brace roots at two and sometimes
three joints which makes it hard to
blow down.
An item of especial interest seems to
have been overlooked by the journals of
Washington county, although it hap
pens only once in lifetime. Gideon
Talbot and Solomon Lanoue, now aged
70 and 70 years, married Flavie and
Julia Provost, respectively, at the
same time and place, IN st. George,
Canada, September "a, 1886. They
came to the United States in 1851, set
ting in Illinois. In 1870 they moved
to Kansas locating in Washington
county, both families travelling togeth-
er and locating on farms near by.
Their golden wedding anniversary was
celebrated at the home of Mr.. Talbot
the cath day of September, 1896, at
which there were present not less than
"a children and grandchildren, besides
60 relatives and friends. This is the
first instance on record of a double
golden wedding anniversary in Wash
ington county.
Tom Morgan cries out for the state
fish law to be enforced. Now is the
closed season, but the banks of the
STREAMS are llueu WIFI uSHcIlHcu.
The entire plant of the Fort Scott
Paper company, which was established
to make paper of the bagasse from the
Parkinson sorghum sugar works at a
cost of $4,000, was sold May 10th at
sheriff's sale to the Bank of Fort Scott
for $4,000. The factory was built as
an experiment and was great success
until the sugar works ceased opera
ton.
The sheriff of Cloud county sold
property supposed to be worth $4,000
to satisfy mortgage foreclosure judg-
ments of S12, 900 one day last week.
A. ]. Knolin G. Co. wintered $4,000
head of sheep near Solomon at an ex-
pense, from November l to May l, OF
$1,000 Their monthly pay roll was
$500. The sheep consumed $500 tons
of hay, 400 tons of Kafir corn, 1850
bushels of Indian corn and 100000
pounds of bran. Eight thousand head
of sheep have been sheared, yielding