The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1898-11-25
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

In Kansas this year than usual
Twenty-eight convicts were taken
from Muskogee this week and will be
landed in the Kansas penitentiary at
Lansing.
The Kiowas, Comanches and Apaches
are holding council to decide wheth-
er they wish their reservation opened
to settlement or not.
The newspapers in this state con-
tain fifty per cent more advertising
than news This is a great sign OF
prosperity for the newspaper publish
Frs.
Miss Maud Gardiner, Wabaunsee
county girl, is assistant in domestic
economy in the Iowa Agricultural col
lege. She graduated from the Kansas
Agricultural college in 1898.
Will Berroth, the town handy man
Of Alma, can handle a telegraph key,
teep books, teach school, butcher or
Zig well, and it is said that he is all
right at any of these tasks
The story is out that Kansas man,
while eating oysters in restaurant,
found a pearl worth S.. 1t may be
true, of course, but it sounds more like
an attempt to boom the sale of oysters
The farmers are taking much more
care than usual this year to build
shelter to properly protect their stock
from the approaching winter blasts
Kansas stock will not want for food
this year.
A corn binder is in use at the State
Agricultural college farm this season,
concerning which the Industrialist
saws: "The machine did excellent work
and we consider the method great
Improvement over the old way of cut.
ting"
Never in one year has there been SO
many debts paid and so much improve
ment made as there has been in Kan
sas during the past twelve months.
Let the good work go on and all will
be happy.
A former citizen of Smith Center
who is now truck patching down in
Georgia, had fine display of products
at the Omaha exposition. 1t isn't in
the makeup of a man from Kansas to
let his light hide under bushel, no
matter where he may happen to light.
1t is true that Kansas has an abund-
ance of all kinds of feed this year, but
the adjoining states have discovered
this fact and shipped thousands of
head of cattle in here to be wintered.
This will prove boon to the farmers
as they can demand higher price for
feed.
It's little late, but 1. T. Williams,
Phillips county farmer, last week
presented John Royce, of the Phillips
burg Dispatch, with fine watermelon.
Last year Mr. Williams furnished the
Dispatch man with a melon for his
Thanksgiving dinner, but was unable
to keep any that long this season.
The Bell Telephone company are ex-
tending their line south from Ottawa
to Garnett. From there they will run
south to Galena and attach to their
lines there which extend all over the
southern country. This will not only
give lola people direct line to Kansas
City but will give them line to the
lack mines where the smelters get all
their ore.
Few farmers comprehend the feed
ing value of alfalfa, though they may
have grown the plant for years upon
their farms. The digestible nutrients
of any food for either man or beast
consist of fats, carbohydrates and pro-
tein. The fats and carbohydrates are
generally found in excess in the COM
mon feed-stuffs produced on the farm.
Protein, substance indispensable to
the vital processes of all living beings,
is the scarcest and most expensive con-
stituent of the different feeds. Pro-
TEN contains nitrogen.
Kansas visitors to the territory, who
attended an Usage funeral, were some
what horri fed as well as surprised at
the gruesome spectacle of dismem-
bered skeleton, which lay scattered
around near the rude stone cairn in
which the recent defunct was sepul.
chered 1t was explained that these
bones were the remains of a former
occupant of the structure, and had
been unceremoniously cast out to ac
commodate the present tenant, who
in turn, in like manner, will be dis
possessed in short order when place il
required for his successor.
Thousands of tons of baled hay il
being shipped out of Kansas every
week.