The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-11-12
La Harpe is going to sink a gas well

Emporia merchants closed thei
stores to witness ball game.
The board of regents of the state ag
ricultural college have elected Harrie
Howell as superintendent of sewing.
The big end of wedding feast il
Jewell county the other day was TWEEN
ty roast turkeys. The entire township
turned out.
A converted Mohommedan" is pick
ing up good living in rdral Kansas
towns. Any old thing will work il
Kansas this year.
Henry Willie, German farmer liv
ing near Wamego, beat his wife, SCI
fire to his house and barn and ther
shot himself dead.
The Kansas farmers who have hogs
this year and can keep diseases away
from them, will make big profit by
holding them until later in the winter
Hogs are going up every day and they
will continue to go up for some time
| to come. The cholera and other dis
eases which was prevalent among them
last summer, and which has not yet
entirely abated, has thinned out the
porkers to great extent this winter
! Hence, the present demand for fatten.
ing hogs can hardly be supplied at
home this year and the price will ma
turally go up
The State Superintendent of Public
Instruction, acting for the school fund
commissioners, has purchased school
district bonds as follows: District "a,
Franklin county, S7OO, for the Stormont
Library fund; District rs, Allen coun-
ty, 5000, and District SO, jackson coun-
ty, 81 900, for the school fund commits
sion. The school fund commissioners
have now about $40, 900 on h,.nd for in
vestment. Three months ago they had
no money at all on hands, but several
counties have lately paid up bonded
indebtedness for which they were in
arrears
Who does not expand his lungs and
cake in as much as possible of the eX-
hilirating leafy odor of the woods in
November? The same odor prevades
the pages of Outing this month, at
least it seemed so to us after reading
Ed w. Sandys on ga Day Over Dogs
L. L. Canova on Turkey Hunting on
the Wel1iva;" thanksgiving With the
Steelheads," by NJ. b. Gibson; "His
Majesty the Moose" by Parker Syms,
NJ. d.; "Fox Hunting on the Eastern
Shore of Maryland" by Hanson Hiss;
Round the Summer Horse Shows" by
A. H. Godfrey.
The government after long expert
menting with all cholera cures known
and by the aid of scientific methods of
the treatment of disease, has issued the
following receipt and recommends it
for the cure of cholera in hogs, where
it is recommended highly: Wood char
coal, one pound; sulphur, one pound;
salt Sodium Bill two pounds; sodium
hippo sulphide, two pounds; sodium
sulphate, one pound. Pulverize and
mix. Administer at the rate of a ia
blespoonful once each day to every 200
pound hog; half tablespoonful for 100
pound hog; two tablespoonfuls for
every 400 pound hog, etc.
Last week the six banks in Clay
county concluded the publication of
their statements. The total figures as
compared with year ago are interest
ing. The county deposits year ago
in September and October including
the old Farmers and Merchants which
was then doing business, were $227,-
ass 81. The deposits this year are $780,
800 %. The difference in favor of the
year 1897, sos, 912.72. However, it
would seem that there is something
over $40 in the banks for every man,
woman and child in the county. Last
year the banks had loaned out $780,
616.57; this year their loans and dis
counts amount to 1891 ,055 IL.
Bill Funk and John Williams of Clark
county had fight over young Indian
squaw and Funks head was badly bat
tered by revolver.
The new wooden mill at Topeka has
received thousands of dollars worth OF
machinery and is putting it in shape
Il will give employment to fifty men
and women.
The schools of Franklin county have
been interfered with by diphtheria this
fell to an unprecedented extent Seven
cases at Centropolis have closed the
schools at that point.
A prominent farmer near Yelling
ton has mean enemy who has burned
his barn and is shooting his stock in
his pastures
Kansas has paid off in the last eight
years the enormous sum of $3.50, 100000
mortgage Indebtedness and that in the
faca of nanics drouths and other re-