The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1898-09-16

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The Kansas university is thirty-three
years old. By the way, it is improving
with age.
A forest fire is raging in the western
part of the state. Already fifteen Sec
tions of land have been burned over.
An Usage county steer which was
sold on the Kansas City market a few
days ago only lacked forty pounds
of weighing an even ton.
Downs admits that Osborne leads II
somewhat in population, but says that
the latter town has the advantage in
having the jail there.
If there were another war within a
year the rough riders would keep out
of it. In common with every man who
went to Cuba they have had enough.
The Catholics are erecting the larg-
est convent college at Concordia that
there is in the state 1t is q four-story
brick structure and will cost about
100000
An Atchison county farmer, John
Stewart, is pretty well stocked. He
has 10000 bushels of corn in his crib,
80 head of cattle and 3s head of horses
and mules.
Douglas county farmer while on
his way home from market was robbed
of $500, the proceeds of this years
wheat crop. That is tougher luck than
to see ones field taken by hot winds.
The horse disease which is now ex-
citing farmers in central Kansas
first attacks the equine's stomach and
the dirordered stomach in some way
effects the lungs. 1t is not contagious,
but epidemic.
A tramp printer recently worked
Fairbury newspaper for SIS for an ink
making receipt He sold the same re-
celpt at Smith Center for bottle of
Budweiser. Some towns evidently
contain bigger suckers than others.
The two-year-old child of couple
living in jackson county died last week
as result of getting hold of some car
bolic acid. A census of the deaths
caused by the negligence of handling
poisons would give some startling fig.
ures.
According to fashion journal one
of the very latest fads is might robe
which is made by the wearers own
hands," There are thousands and
thousands of good women in Kansas
who have been following that fad foI
years.
| A photographer bearing the name OF
Ickelheimer Henthorn is working
through northwest Kansas counties
Four or five years ago the man Juggling
name like that into that section OF
state would have been thrown out SO
quickly that it would have made his
head swim.
A young lad in Atchison started tc
run away the other day because hi,
parents obliged him to go to school.
When he gets older and has to start
out in the world to hump for what he
can get he will want to kick himself
for not approaching the soft thing he
now has at home.
Glen Elder cyclists did not take kind
ly to the ordinance requiring all
wheels to have bell, and on the day
when It went into effect all the owners
of wheels in town rode forth ringing
COW bells; and the bigger the bell and
the more discordant the noise pro-
duced, the better it suited them.
This state has bright future be.
fore it. The wheat crop has turned
out an excellent yield, and the corn is
above the average; the fruit, consisting
of peaches plums and grapes, have
yielded well-especially the grapes;
most of the farmers are out of debt,
besides having their farms clear and a
little money laid up for a rainy day;
many improvements have been made
on the old homesteads, in the way of
stocking up the farms, building out
building and sheds for protection of
stock, grain and machinery, and num-
erous little improvement not herein
mentioned.
A Splendid Attraction.
Wichita theatre goers are to be es-
pecially favored early this season in
the high-class amusement line for one
of the first attractions presented will
be that great hit of the past season, in
musical comedies "The Gay Matinee
Girl" which is admitted to be the
brightest and funniest in its line.
Manager Edwin p. Hilton, who is well
known to our people as one who al
ways handles fine attractions, informs
us that this season he has an eXtraor-
binary good company, headed by the
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