The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-11-05

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The banks at Columbus close al
K hour at noon each day.
An attempt to break jail was frus
trated at Erie a few nights ago.
Coolidge cows averaged So heat
from the creamery during the month
of September.
The banks of Lawrence show on de
post over 500, 900 more than they had
this time last year.
A Fort Scott boy found pearl worth
SIS in clam shell under the Missouri
Pacific bridge the other day.
A bed of fossils has been discovered
on the Colvln ranch, near Oberlin. The
petritied bones OF mammoth turtles
predominant.
Salina is considering the ACCESSIBILITY
of buying the paper mill and convert
ing it into an electric light plant to be
owned and operated by the city.
Those Cheyenne Indians who are
roaming over Oklahoma and southern
Kansas giving exhibitions claim that
they took part in the Custer massa
ere.
A Chinaman who lives at Dodge City
says that the Cinnamon deform their
women's feet in order to keep them
from gadding. He thinks the plan
would be good one to inaugurate in
America.
If you take the work of the Kansas
papers you will discover that the high
est price for wheat is paid in every
town in the territory, that is, the price
paid in all towns is higher than the
price paid in all other towns.
The state Editorial association will
meet in Wyandotte February 7. The
entertainment, in addition to the meat
and drink, will be a glimpse of the
stock yard, Whit of the packing
houses and a pullman junket.
Judge Riggs has sustained the new
banking law in a case at Garnett in
which the creditors of defunct bank
! ask that the receiver be directed to
bring action against the stockholders
for the benefit of all the creditors.
At Abilene recently man hired
70 l,,xya ant ~, l,o fry
and then went the other direction. He
kept the team longer than he expected
and when he came back he found he
had to pay for lot of cards announc-
ing stolen team and ten dollars re.
ward.
A visitor at the orchard OF Robert
Kenney, near Chapman, says: Thirteen
men have been employed during the
past two weeks loading the teams
which were coming in from far and
near. There are about 125 acres in the
orchard. The yield this year will be
close to 5000 bushels. They are sell
ing at 40 ard SO cents bushel.
The men in charge of the state agri-
cultural college havce been making
some experiments with cattle feeding
that will interest stockmen. They got
three lots of cattle as near alike in
every particular as possible. To one
lot they feed corn, to the second red
L. 20 he fhirI ,ulifa 1yo fl
corn. The feed was ground for each
lot, and to each the same weight of
feed was given each day. On the av-
erage in lot it took 9.97 pounds of
corn and $50 pounds of roughness to
make pound of beef. In lot 2 1t took
10. Sc pounds of red kaffir corn and 6ss
pounds of roughness to make pound
of beef. In lot it took 10.41 pounds
of white kaffir corn and 6. 02 of rough
ness to make pound of beef. The
average daily gain per head on corn
was l. sc pounds; on red kaffir corn III
and on white kaffir corn 1.7S pounds.
Each lot was fed 16 pounds of grain a
day for each head and they were given
all the fodder they wanted. 1t shows
that kaffir corn is nearly as good feed
for cattle as Indian.
A man and his wife were reunited at
Wichita Saturday after separation of
thirty-five years caused by mischief
makers.
The owner of the Beloit city water
works plant, owing to the scarcity of
water during the hot, dry months of
summer and fall, is remedying the
shortage for the future, and has had
sunk eight more wells, of from 1s to 25
feet in depth, supplying ample and
pure water They are connected with
the main pipe, the new well being
| about one-half mile from the city.
The best looking young man in
Hutchinson is soon to marry widow
in another town.
An interesting experiment will be
tried next season by John Conrad, the
,va1l known Ti1dan township farmer