The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1898-08-12

about ready to start at Hutchinson.
The Helena county corn crop was
stripped by the hail storm the Other
night.
The new police department has
made splendid record at Atchison
during last month.
A sixty-year-old man kissed a ten
year-old girl passionatcly at Newton
and was put in Jail.
Charlie Briggs has been appointed
county attorney of Usage county, vice
George Wolf, resigned.
Theodore Sternberg of Ellsworth,
recently commissioned paymaster in
the army, has started for Manila.
a. r. Thompson, negro soldier at
Topeka, died last week. This is the
first death among Kansas negro volun-
teers.
Signs have been placed in various
places around Sterling warning tramps
that that is a very poor town in which
to stop.
Pension Agent Leland has notified
the pensioners that all those living in
a free delivery town must give their
address.
A fourteen-year-old boy has been ar
rested at Pittsburg for stealing S15 in
city script. Generally, city script is
not worth stealing.
Over considerable portion of the
state blowing for fall wheat has been
set back on account of the hard and
dry condition of the soil.
A tramp threw a car pin at brake
man at Emporia, breaking his leg.
The cause of the trouble was that the
tramp was put off the train.
Kansas took the medal for the finest
display of minerals at the Worlds
Fair The medal was found in pile
of rubbish at the state house the other
day.
A Pottawatomie county man who
was hauled up charged with violating
the prohibitory law plead guilty on
two counts, was fined 5000 and sen
fenced to sixty days in Jail, "but was
released until such time as he shall
again violate the law"
The managers of the railroads have
secured an order calling in all their
cars in anticipation of great rush of
grain business. They say that the sur
render of Santiago and the destruction
of the fleet has greatly stimulated the
export of grain and the look for very
heavy shipments during the coming
six weeks
State officials have checked up the
treasury books. The books show the
amount of cash on hand to be $3.50, 900.
This amount is distributed among the
different funds as follows: General
revenue fund, $139, 919; state house
fund, 4,737; interest fund, $50, 257; per-
manent school fund, 2115, 126; annual
school fund. S129, 5S1. The bonds on
hand amount to 81, 155,761
Mayor Mccain, of Galena, went be-
fore the board of commissioners of
Cherokee county, August 5th, and sue
ceeded in convincing it that 5000 should
be contributed towards the expenses
Of the Cherokee county exhibit at the
Omaha exposition. The amount re-
1uired was 1901 and Mr.. Mccain said
# they would contribute 5000, the city
If Galena would raise the balance by
private subscription.
The farmers and stock raisers in the
western part of Crawford county, and
on the bottom lands of the
Neosho river, are sustaining consider
able loss on account of the ravages of
hog cholera. The disease has made it's
appearance since the extremely hot
weather set in few days ago, and has
made rapid progress. The farmers are
1T loss to account for it, as there has
been no cholera among the hogs in
hat section of the country for two or
5hree years.
The Kansas state sanitary board
thinks it has accidentally discovered
L preventative for Texas fever. Some
lime ago ticky cattle were brought
INTO Harper county and the board
them. simultaneously
the cattle took disease resembling
black leg, and an old farmer prescribed
a mixture of sulphur and salt as a
remedy. This was also given the
ticky cattle and it developed that
while the ticks lived and thrived no
fever was observed and none of the in
fected cattle died. John Dryden, a
of the board, has been max
ing an investigation of the subject and
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