The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1898-04-15

will be an officer ON the mttleS'uI
Massachusetts.
Attorney General Boyle holds that
militiameu are not exempt from pay
ment of poll tax.
If Independence will pat zap a bonus
a foundry and machine shop will be
established there.
Secretary Bush says that it is an out
rage to assert that the State officers
had anything to do with the circulation
at Bridgeport, Conn, of copies of
Topeka paper containing sensational
stories relative to the career of DIR. En-
bree, the pastor of the First Methodist
church at Topeka. Embree has been
chosen as pastor of a church at Bridge
port, but the circulation of these stories
led the church authorities to cancel
their agreement with him. Mr.. Bush
says that the sending of the papers
was an outrage but no less so than the
effort to connect the State officers with
the affair when they knew nothing of
| it.
Superintendent II. Il. PEARS, who
took charge of Haskell intitute as sup
erintendent the first of this month,
made talk to the Indian students re-
Gently. and asked them to give up the
use of tobacco. The movement was
started through the officers of the com
panies at the school, and the announce
ment of the plan was hailed with APP
plause. The company officers, Indian
students, told the boys what was want
ed, and there was large voluntary
offering of sacks of tobacco, plugs,
pipes, cigars and cirgarettes of whicl<
a bonfire was made, and the reform
started with much show of earnestness.
The student officers were glad to co
operate in the movement, and it seems
probable that a great reform will be
{
time.
Kansas is admirably adapted to the
cattle industry? Can any one name its
superior? Yet for years to touch cat
tie was to taste the Apple of Sodom.
But, if the outlook has been judged
correctly, better day has come and to
stay until the lesson of the recent past
has been forgotten. In good judg-
ment, the time is fully here to take
heart and make the cattle industry
what it can only be in Kansas. Every
thing that costs more than it is worth,
or for which there is no real use should
be let severely alone. Economies can
be practiced that had been unthought
heretofore. We must adapt ourselves
to the time, occasion and surroundings,
neither planting corn in the fall, nor
wheat in the spring. In this day, wa
ter is not turned into wine, and the
mere act of the outstretched hand will
not save the sinking boat.
Few of us comprehend the extent of
our prairies to-day. About 10000, 900
acres of Kansas land are covered with
prairie grasses exclusively. In all pro-
liability the greater part of this vast
area never can be utilized for any 9th
er purpose than grazing. In 1897 over
3 800, 600 cattle and horses gained their
sustenance in large part during six
months of the year from native grasses
At an average price of So per head for
the season these animals consumed
more than 5,00O,0 900 worth of pastur
age. Secretary Coburn calculates the
average cost of grazing cattle both on
fenced pastures and on open ranges at
80 cents per month, which would be
81 ,92 for the season of six months.
This is far below the gain which accru-
es to a cattleman who owns the stock
to consume the product of his own
lands and in many cases, as in western
Kansas, the product of lands not his
own.
People never fall back on the wealth
err to bolster up a lull in the converse
ton in Finney county. 1t is either
cattle or politics.
Samuel Ream, who has been arrest
ed for stealing whisky from railroad
cars, was at one time representative
from jackson county.
In Logan county cattle are assessed
much higher than is the rule in most
of the Kansas counties. The system
of prohibition and taxation in Kansas
is in one respect like man-fearfully
and wonderfully made.
J. C. Turner's store at Sterling was
entered Thursday night, and few dol
lars worth of cutlery taken.
The Twenty-frst Annual meeting of
the Woman's Presbyterian Board of
Foreign Missions of the Southwest
will be held at Wichita on April 2sth
and Goth.
The Hibernians, at their annual ses-
sion in Leavenworth county recently,