The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1898-06-24


A Ford county farmer says Shat
damp hay will keep ali right stacked
if it is well sailed and that cattle are
very fond of sailed hay.
A Mcpherson county farmer was in
Clay Center the other day seeking har-
vest hands, offering SO a day and board
and he couldn't get any.
Very few Kansas towat are without
a company of would-be volunteers who
are sure they will be needed to drive
Spain off the western continent.
Lists of teachers attending the coun'
ty institutes are not SO long this year
as usual. Too many people are busy
in the field of war and the fields OF
grain.
Travelling dupe sellers are required
to pay license of So day if they OPP
crate in Humboldt. If this tariff is
high enough to be prohibitive, it is
enough.
The wheat prospect in Gray county
is excellent and the harvest season will
open at once, as many of the fields are
ready for the harvester. Alfalfa is
also looking fine.
The Horton newspaper fight has
reached the stage where the postal au-
thorities should take hand. People
become very tired of continual chorus
of billingsgate.
The first annual commencement eX-
ercises of the Wellington High school
were held the past week, the class be-
ing made up of five boys and one girl
a most unusual ratio.
The Santa Fe depot at Window was
burglarized Saturday night. Only five
dollars was secured. The safe was
blown open, but the agent had carried
the money home with him.
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ladies who go through the evolutions
of broom drill in very creditable
manner. Do they expect to help sweep
the Spaniards off the face of the globe?
George A. Fowler has increased his
donation for the new Fowler machine
shop building at Kansas university to
sol 900 and this will cause several
changes in plans to be made for bet
ter building than was first contem-
plated. 1t is expected that the con-
tract will be let at once for the con-
struction of the building, and that it
will be completed SO that students can
install the new machinery next fall
The papers have been having great
deal of fun lately over the statement
that Ensign Bagley, the first man kill
ed in the present war, was the son OF
the first Confederate killed in the civil
war, as his age was given at "a years.
Bagley has cousin living in Barton
who says that his age is not correctly
reported-that he was 3S at the time
of his death-so the dates will track
all right, whether the story is true or
not.
Thirty-two years ago Tim Hoyne,
hearty young Irishman, arrived in Sa-
line county with a wife, four children
and 500 in cash. Today he owns 1000
acres of land well stocked and i'm
proved. Other men have done as well,
| in spite of the assertion that some
times bobs up to the effect that there
is no chance for farmer tie get ahead
in the world 1t makes Mr.. Hoyne
laugh when he hears people chewing
the rag on account of the present price
of -four He paid $11 for the first sack
of -four he purchased after coming to
Kansas.
1t is high time to get out and defend
Kansas again. The state has been
blessed by year of prosperity and the
prospects for the present year are that
its close will record even greater crops
and higher notch of prosperity. The
demands for war supplies will fall ia
vorably upon Kansas, and the state is
given the unusual opportunity of dis
posing of an unusually large yield of
it's products at the best prices. The
whole state will be benefited. 1t is
therefore of moment to ward off any
disaster which may tend in any way
to check or retard this prosperity.
Last year Marion county had the
honor of raising the largest yield of
wheat NJ. B. Riggs, living two miles
from Florence, had field of wheat
which averaged fifty-two bushels to
the acre. He sold the crop this spring
for 81 per bushel. This years crop, at
this time of year, looks better than
any other crop in the history of the
county. All fields have good stand.
The crop made a wonderful growth
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