The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-05-07
pepper & Son of Hanover are erect
ing fifty barrel steam grist mill.

! riot.
The new senator from Kentucky is a
brother-in-law to brother of We'll
lington man.
Emporia young people have an idea
that church steps are the place from
which the air ship can be seen.
The startling news comes in Ster.
ling paper that Il prominent citizen of
that town has plate glass front.
The next great improvement which
the Santa Fe will begin in Kansas will
be the construction of a $40, 900 grain
elegator at Winfield. Work on this
will be begin at once and will be push
ed to completion as rapidly as posi-
BILE.
Ritter Bros, of Chetopa have jus,
broken ground for new j0-barre
fcuring mill with meal and feed at.
tAchments Work will be pushed and
why oiO SAPCSulHB W NAVE ~ III opera
ton by the time new wheat comes in
again.
Although the wet weather has inter.
fered with the work on the irrigation
ditch at Great Bend to some extent,
the first mile is completed with the ex-
ception of the riprap on the lower side.
she working force has been increased
to over eighty men.
Kansas men are the greatest soldiers
of the Union. More Kansas men, in
comparison of the number furnished
by the state, have died in action in the
civil war, than from any other state.
For every thousand men Kansas fur
nished, siXty-one died in action.
A. j Kohnin & Co., of near Solomon,
have fed for the past six months 10, 600
head of sheep, They have expended
SIT 900 since November /, 1896 OF
this amount local laborers alone have
TcCcl'Cu VfOo pcl luouOn TIC ldIlicIh
in the vicinity have had market for
$500 tons of hay, 400 tons of katfir corn
and $4,000 bushels of corn. Besides
this there has been fed twelve car
lrads of bran averaging 10000 bushels
to the car,
The society ladies of Topeka are 60
give the event of the year in the way
of dance. The best of music has
been arranged for, refreshments will
be served and the young gentlemen
will be at liberty to remain seated
posing as wall flowers until asked tc
take part In the evenings program.
Numbers of gentlemen have already
been trying to get upon good terms
again with ladies who were so unfor-
tunate as to not be able to dance to
dance to their hearts content at the
last dance from the fact that they were
not asked. 1t is sincerely hoped that
gentlemen will not be paid in their
own coin.
The recent heavy rains have soaked
the ground thoroughly in the neigh
borhood of Garden City and the pros
poets for good crops never was better.
1t was the vettest April in ten years
and the thousands of acres of ground
seeded to alfalfa will be sure of good
stand. Alfalfa is about one foot high
and growing an inch day. The fiiSt
crop will be ready for cutting by May
Goth. Farmers are putting every acre
in cane and forage crops possible, for
the large herds of cattle which are now
being grazed on buffalo grass, which
is fine, and the cattle herds are being
increased about l., 900 per week by ship
ments from the west. The hog bust
ness is being largely increased, as Sc
far no cholera or other disease has APP
peared, and by putting them on alfal.
allowance of corn, they increase in
weight very fast.
Ward Burlingame, the Kansas man
who is now chief of the Dead Letter
Office, is different from all Kansas
men. He will go blocks and blocks to
keep out of the way of women. He
does not like them.
Hogs and cattle command good pri
ces, wheat is going up and is already
at paying prices, corn is advancing,
everything the farmer has to sell com.
mands a pretty good figure, while
everything he has to buy is cheap.
Why should not the farmer always be
happy.
Geuda Springs is the greatest health
resort in the west. 1t is better than
Manitou or Hot Springs. But Geuda
is small town and it is impossible to
spend money there and the consequence
is that very few people go there.
Some one severely criticised Chancel-
lor Snow and members of the State
University faculty for going to Topeka
to lobby in the interests of the institu-