The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1898-10-07
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

factory.
Seneca has new opera house with
seating capacity of 500.
Up to last week an Ellsworth coun-
ty thresher had run 42,70O bushels OF
wheat through his machine.
Farmers living near Conway are suf-
fciently enterprising to have their
mail delivered to them from the post
Office daily by man hired for that
purpose.
The farmers of Kansas are holding
their wheat. The reason they are do
ing SO is because they have money and
do not have to sell it. The price is 60
ing up again.
The town cows in places where Buff
falo Bills show has held forth are now
leading dogs life. All the town kids
are practicing on them in their efforts
10 learn to throw rope.
The Galena Times says that Galena
girl was actually engaged to three
men up to within two weeks OF her
marriage. One of the men didn't know
that he had been thrown" until he
got an invitation to the wedding.
Ike Wilson, a Greenwood county
blacksmith. started for the Klondike
country last summer. Ike had good
scheme. His scheme was to take along
some extra hard drills and bore for
gold. Ike. is now working on the
Shaauay & White Pass railroad.
The Rocks County Journal says:
"The buffalo grass, which few weeks
ago was to all appearances dead, has
started to grow since the rains and
the prairie now has all the appearance
of early spring time This means
heap to the people who live in that
country.
The university authorities at Law
renee report a constant demand 1or
high school science teachers who are
all around men and able to teach all
the sciences. The students who have
specialized in one or two branches and
Maid little attention to the others can
not fill the places, and while as gen.
eral rule they have been able to get
places. the demand still continues for
ali around science teachers.
Great Day for Veterans.
In some respects the most striking
feature of the Peace Jubilee week at
the Exposition at Omaha will be the
friendly meeting of the Blue and the
GRAY on "North and South Handshak-
ing Day." October 18th, and on Army
and Navy" and veteran Soldiers
Day" October 18th. Great efforts have
been made to secure large attendance
of federal and confederate veterans for
this occasion, and there is no doubt
that the gathering will be one of the
most memorable of its kind in the his
tory OF the country. The Grand Army
of the Republic through its command
er-in-chief, the Women's Relief Corps
through its national president, and the
Daughters Of the Confederacy through
their national president have been in
vited to be present and the invitations
have been given very wide publicity.
A number of prominent speakers have
accepted invitations to deliver address,
es at camp-fres to be held morning
and evening of the two days named.
II will be fitting accompaniment to
the celebration over the close OF the
war of 1898 that the men who bore the
brunt Of the fight in the carly sixties
shall stand upon the same platform
and address the participants in that
great struggle.
At the Topeka flower carnival there
will be gun that shoots boquets into
the crowd.
The Pawnee Historical Society, an
excellent organization, with head
quarters in Republic county, has done
valuable service in gathering and pre-
serving evidence of the location of the
principal village of the Pawnee Re-
public, a branch of the great Pawnee
tribe of Indians. In this work the
Pawnee Historical Society had had the
hearty cooperation of the State His
torical Society.
The attorneys for John Collins,
charged with parricide, may abandon
the plan of asking for a cnange of
venue. The only object in asking for
a change of venue would be to get the
case away from Shawnee county,
where prejudice against the young
man is supposed to run high. The de-
Tense has about concluded that the
feeling in Shawnee county against
Collins is not so bitter but what he
can get fair trial, and it is said to be
almost certain that no motion for a
change of venue will be fled.
An Atchison loafer toys with q big