The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1898-07-22

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4 Chanutes new Touring mill is in op
Grafton.
Many of the war correspondents il
Cuba are from Kansas.
Chautauqua and Mitchell COUNTY
each have Salt Creek township
1t cost S1,3lo to keep the oklahoma
prisoners in the Leavenwortb Jail last
year.
June witnessed decrease of SIG.
sol. % in the mortgage debt of McPher-
son county.
Residents of Neodesha and vicinity
have subscribed for $40, 900 worth of
war bonds.
A Labette county farmer with one
machine harvested zoo acres of wheat
in ten days.
Six Sterling boys are with the regu-
lar army boys who were engaged in
the fight at Santiago.
In jefferson county several farmers
burned the wheat fields that were not
worth cutting in order to knock out
the chinch bugs in them.
1t is claimed by the Moline Rcpubli-
can that Elk county has more boys at
the front according to population than
any other county in the state.
Women and men have gone in ca
boots at Osborne and organized a
club. The divorce judge may be eX-
pected to do a good business there
soon.
An Oklahoma man has written the
collector of revenues at Leavenworth,
Kansas: Am selling electric belts.
Should they be stamped when applied
to the naked?"
The advertisements for Kansas fairs
state that a reproduction Of the naval
battles of Manila and Santiago will be
part of the programs. This will catch
lot of suckers.
The editor of the Glasco Sun an
nounces that he will take a lay-of for
a few weeks and during that time will
amuse himsels running the engine for
a threshing outfit.
lola can now tilt her chin at high
err angle. Within short time work
will be commenced on two or three
smelters there, which will give en-
ployment to several hundred men.
The boys at Alger are standing up
for the states reputation in good
shape. When it was reported that for
ty members of the New York regiment
were baptized and had joined church,
the Kansas colonel ordered the chap
lain to take one hundred Kansas boys
into the church and baptize them at
once.
The farmers of Sheridan county have
had a new experience. The high winds
of the past week threshed out nearly
all of the bearded barley which was
just beginning to ripen. Some fields
that before the wind promised the
best crop ever seen in the county are
now not worth cutting. The small or
fashioned kind" was not hurt at
all.
Cooper & Plumb bought the first
new wheat in the Lyons market July
6. 1t was of fine quality, testing 62
pounds per bushel, yielding 16 bushels
per acre, for which 621I cents per bush
ell was paid. The harvest will be en-
tirely completed in short time Many
are already done and have begun plow-
ing for fall sowing. The quality of
wheat from Lyon county will be good;
yield not SO heavy as anticipated, pro-
baby averaging about fifteen bushels
per acre.
The Syracuse News says that Mart
Potter, who owns a Touring mill, runs
a creamery, is the head of the Turon
bank, and who served his time in the
harvest field, never had shoe on his
foot until after he was married, and to
this day can walk over patch of sand
burrs bare-footed and never know it.
He is plutocrat now, but you would
never know it from him, for he is
jovial every day good fellow, and
of high roller when he
gets off the home range"
TRANS MISSISSIPPI EXPOSITION.
SPECIAL DAYS.
Aug. 4. Stenographers Dav; 0, Iowa