The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1898-10-28

Il turns, out about ten pairs DAY.
| Ghosts, are seen in the Emporia cour
house. This is the newest scheme Il
get the tax payers to put up for new
court house.
It ought to be easy for residents o
lola to get next to Goodness, since the
rival laundries have commenced sucl
a hustle for trade.
A Phillips county man has peach
orchard in which, if he uses proper
care, he can gather peaches that graw
three to the pound.
1t must make man feel terribly
foolish to walk into voting place on
election day only to be told that his
own negligence in failing to register
bars him from voting.
The city mills at Abilene are busy
filing large foreign order for their
-four. They are sending in single ship
ments $50, 600 pounds of flour, 10 cars,
to Liverpool. 1t Will go to Galveston
and thence by water. The southern
route is becoming very popular with
the shippers of the state and is bound
20 become more So 1t shortens the
railroad haul and makes cheaper
freight
President Ripley of the Santa Fe,
has issued a circular abolishing the
land department of that road on No
vember 1. On that date all lands be-
longing &c the Santa Fe, except coal
lands, will pass into the hands of John
e. Frost, the present land commission
err. The lands which Mr.. Frost has
bought aggregate about $4,000 acres
and are distributed throughout eigh-
teen counties.
F. D. Coburn, secretary of the state
board of agriculture, has received
letter from William Miller, of Saline
county, with sample of the worms
which are destroying the wheat there.
The worms eat the grain out of the
drill row after planting, necessitating
replanting. Chancellor Snow, of the
state University says the pest is the
wire worm or swapping beetle. 1t does
greater damage to wheat than any
pest which has yet infested Kansas.
Its damage is not so extensive, how
ever, as that of grasshoppers.
The Kansas Experiment Station at
Manhattan has made some valuable
experiments in fattening pigs on Kaffir
corn. When fed in connection with
alfalfa, soy beans or skim-milk it is
valuable food for fattening hogs, but
when fed alone it is not equal to corn.
In the western part of the state Katfir
corn is more valuable to raise for hogs
than corn because it is a much more
certain crop than corn in that locality.
The soy bean is found TO be one of the
best crops for resisting the drouth and
the soy bean and Katfir corn, when fed
together, make most excellent ration
for growing and fatttening hogs. A
great amount of both are raised in the
state.
Kansas produces successfully great
er variety of crops than any other state
in the Union. The standard grains all
do well. In winter wheat it eXcels
any other state. The eastern half pro-
duces large crops of corn. Barley, rye
and fax are good crops. Potatoes,
both Irish and sweet, beets, turnips,
carrots, and in fact all kinds of root
crops and vegetables are easily raised
and yield abundant crops. 1t pro-
duces more broomcorn than any other
state. Sorghum will produce twelve
tons of excellent fodder per acre and
is good crop in all parts of the state
Kaffir corn is n sure and profitable
crop. Alfalfa is permanent and GER
tain crop and will yield from six to
twelve tons of rich and nutritious hay
each year. All the clovers and tame
grasses do well.
A young woman of Blue Rapids swal-
lowed penny one day last week and
called for a physician. The Motor
says the doctor not only got the penny
but made her cough up two dollars
besides.
Workmen excavating for cistern
for creamery at Beloit, at depth of
twelve feet, unearthed fossil, sup
posed to be the tibia of a mastodon.
The bone, which is partly petrified, is
about three feet long and thirty
inches in circumference at the largest
end.
There are men whose constitutions
are so strong that even their names do
not affect them. Jacob Valezenske
died at Leavenworth few days ago
at the age of 105.
A travelling bicycle racer dropped
into Glen Elder the other day on q