The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-06-18
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

In 1890 the farmers OF Butter county
were worth ~ million dollars In 1897
they are worth 81 millions.
Great quantities of Strawberries are
being shipped from Leavenworth to
points IN Iowa and Minnesota.
A lodge has been instituted in Cha
mute known as knights of the Gar
ter" Now don't get any wrong i'm
preston.
Two young ladies from Great Bend
have caused the old feud between the
Stafford and st. John boys to break
out in fresh spot.
Labette county had splendid rain
on the 18th, lasting fifteen hours. 1t
came steady, and without wind or hail
and appears to be general. No one
who has not seen can imagine how the
wheat has come out. This section,
which is perhaps most damaged in the
eastern part of the state, will far ex-
coed expectations and most especially
in the Indian Territory adjacent. AL
though thin on the ground, it is head
ing remarkably well and some will be
ripe enough to cut by the 18th inst.
Corn and oats are promising.
An inlposter is working his game on
some of the Kansas towns, selling
from house to house, salve which he
guarantees to cure warts. All sensible
people know that the only way to re-
move wart is to rub it with half a
raw potato which is afterwards to be
buried by a cross-eyed negro in the
northwest corner of graveyard at
midnight in the dark of the moon. AS
the potato decays the wart will disap-
pear. This wart salve put up in tin
boxes is delusion and snare
Ike Crumley, county clerk of Thorn
as county, has the largest wheat field
in the county In round figures he has
1000 acres in wheat, besides 400 acres
in oats and barley. Thomas county
has about $4,000 acres in wheat which
is about month earlier than ever be-
fore known, and the most of it prom
Uses good yield. Good rains have
fallen over the county recently, and
there is better feeling among all our
people than for several years A num-
Der of eastern land buyers have been
in this vicinity, many of them making
purchases.
A summarized reports from CORE
spondents of the Kansas Board of Ag-
riculture in nearly every township in
the State has been made public, giving
conditions of growing crops of May 81.
Unusual and almost uninterrupted cool
rainfall oyer much of the State has
been excellent for wheat, and its gen
eral condition of SO is an advance of
three points over that at date of the
last report, April 90 From very few
localities of least rainfall some old-crop
chinch bugs are reported, but not yet
doing much in material damage or pro-
pagation. In Kansas chinch bug cir
cles the season thus far has been one
of discouraging depression, while the
wheat has continued to prosper. The
same weather so congenial to wheat
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while the stand and prospect are very
good indeed and cultivation is well in
hand the growth is not vigorous, nor
can it be until there is a succession of
warm days. The general condition for
the State is given at SAT-, and the re-
porters note a considera BILE increased
acreage in nine-teuths of the counties.
The Republican county committee
has called a convention to meet In
Larned June Is to elect ten delegates
to the district judicial convention
which meets at La Crosse on June 25
a Parsons company has organized to
take gas from the Forest Oil company
at Neodesha. The company pipes it
to the city from their strongest wells
at Neodesha, distance of twenty-one
miles. The company will have con-
nection with wells that carry pres
sure in the neighborhood of two hun
dred pounds.
A. E. Mosier, of Topeka, Kansas,
agent for the Faist Automatic Sieve
company, of Milwaukee, is in Newton
and will superintend the remodeling of
of the Newton Milling company's
plant. The Newton mill is to have a
daily capacity of 400 barrels. One of
the changes to be made will be the use
of a 1OOO-foot rope belt, which will
connect all the shafting in the mill
with the engine. This insures equal
running throughout the mill Ac-
cording to the contract the building
will be finished by July l.
The Halstesd Milling and Elevator
company has closed contract for the
building of two steel tanks for storing