The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1898-11-18

The farmers are busy gathering corn
in southern Kansas, and the yield is
good.
Prairie hay is cheap in Kansas this
year. Lots of it will be shipped out of
the state.
Some fine potatoes have been raised
in Kansas this year. The yield is said
to be good.
The last issue of the Kansas Farmer
contained piece of poetry more than
a yard long.
Corn is selling at 20 cents per bushel
in central and northern Kansas at the
present time.
Thousands of head of cattle will be
wintered in southern and western
Kansas this year.
A Brown county man last week sold
span of young mules for $3.50. 1t
would almost be luxury to be kicked
by mule rated at that valuation.
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branch are looking for easier riding
now, as steel rails from an abandoned
road up in Nebraska are being put
down in place of the old iron ones.
Chetopa now has natural gas. The
gas has been turned into the mains
from the Higgins e. Dunn wells south
of town. MeLain's mill is using it,
and as fast as the plumbing can be
completed it will come into general
use. The quality is excellnnt and the
supply fnlly up to expectations.
For twenty-eight years Leslie Ran
dolph, editor of the Nortonville News
Herald, lived in school district in
Atchison county near Nortonville.
During that time he sustained rela-
tionship to the school of pupil, teach
er, taxpayer, officer and, finally, pa
iron. 1t is hardly likely that there
are very many men in the state who
can duplicate such record as this.
Hutchinson has a worldwide repu-
tation for salt but salt is not the only
product that finds its way to the east
Sedate Bostonians will soon be using
Hutchinson flour with their baked
beans. The Monarch, mills have re-
ceived an order from a large Boston
firm for 5000 pounds of Kelly's flour.
To fill this order will require three
trains of twelve cars each. The flour
will be used in the retail trade in Bos-
ton.
Ella May Logan, the Atchison color
ed girl who robbed George Abrams, oil
TIiawatha OF $4O0, and who was the
first woman sentenced to the Hutchin'
son reformatory, has been released on
parole. She was convicted and SEN
fenced last April, but was never taken
to the reformatory. The laws give the
courts the privilege of sending girls
there, but the legislatures have neg
lectcd to provide for them. There was
talk at first of sending the Logan girl
to the penitentiary, but it was discov-
cred that this could not be done on ac-
count of her age, and she has been in
the county Jail nearly year.
In closing write-up in the current
number of the New England Maya
zine concerning the development of gas
fields in lola and vicinity, Chas, +.
Scott says: 'Kansas has been so long
and so generally regarded as a purely
agricultural state that reports Of her
mineral wealth have received slow
credence. 1t has been hard to force
belief that fat, prairie state should
have immense coal areas, should have
inexhaustive deposits of lead should
have the richest zinc mines in the
world, and should have hundreds of
square miles of pure salt beds. Never
theless all these things are true. 1t
has been hard likewise to force belief
That this same fiat, prairie state has
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natural gas territory in the world.
And yet that also is true"
There is no getting around it. Win
ter is here. 1t Is noted by the Gaylord
Herald that the price of cobs has been
doubled.
The standpipe at Horton is $50 feet
high, with frail iron ladder reaching
to its top. Mrs. Melenaslla was board
ing the men engaged in painting the
pipe and they said no woman could
climb to the top. Mrs. Melenaska said
she would show them, and taking her
hands from the dish water, went out
and climbed the ladder to the upper
round.
Brass bands in the southwest appear
to have made more money out of the
campaign than those in any other sec
ton of the state.
The visit of party of fasteners to
Sedgwick county has started the sale