The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1898-08-05
Iood rains a-o reported throughout

schools in Butler county.
Inman claims to be a better grain
market than the county seat.
Emporia lost the suit against the
Premium stamp association.
The hearing of the revnue cases at
Topeka, have been put off again.
A number of Norman people are in
terested in New Mexico gold mines.
The only trouble with Kansas regi-
ments is that they all have mascot.
A Topeka girl whitens her hands by
soaking them in dishwater three times
a day.
Elmer Drake, of Lawrence, died
Sunday night from the Effects of a
horse kick.
Topeka people are reading less books
and more newspapers since the war
commenced.
Ernest Keller committed suicide near
Coffeyville, Sunday, on account of bust
ness matters.
| Patent medicine men are put in jail
in Pittsburg when they do not do the
right thing.
The Sylvia state bank of Reno coun-
ty, has been chartered with $4,000
capital stock
The famous Dodge City Cowboy band
has been engaged to play for Torry's
rough riders.
Lawrence is undergoing the excite
ment of having street car line erect
ed in that city.
Everett Sadler, Sadan boy, now on
the Oregon, reached the ship six days
before they captured Cervera.
Another good rain visited western
Kansas on the night of July goth and
soaked the ground thoroughly.
A number of men working with
threshing machine were poisoned by
drinking water out of bucket in
which moss had grown. They were
working near Hutchinson.
Kansas day at Omaha exposition has
been definitely fixed for September 1.
Governor Leedy will deliver an address,
and there will be an elaborate display
of fireworks at night, on the lagoon.
Lieutenant Colonel E. G. Little was
relently telegraphed by the Topeka
carnival committee to secure a queen
for the carnival in the Philippines.
He telegraphed back that there are no
queens like the Kansas queens; that
he had tried four continents and knows.
Wilson H. McAllister, the Cloud
county soldier who recently died at
Camp Merritt, was Knight of Pythias
and the Knights of San Francisco pro-
cured the finest kind of metallic
casket in which the body of the young
man was returned for burial to the
home of his parents, at Miltonville.
Theodore, Sternberg of Ellsworth,
has received a commission as pay
master of volunteers. He has ma
tional reputation as poultry show
Judge. Sternberg was Ellsworth's
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gress in the Sixth. There is $4,000
year in the position for him He was
paymaster during the civil war.
Lieut.. Owen B. Mayer, who was
wounded at Santiago, has arrived at
his home at Fort Leavenworth. He
was under General Wheeler. Lieuten-
ant Mayer thinks the Spaniards are
good shots. He said: what 1 could
see of it by its results,it was excellent.
Right here want to say one thing.
Anyone who think the Sanish soldiers
can't use artillery is mistaken. don't
know how the navy can shoot but the
land forces know how to use it right.
If they could have had adequate bat
teries they could have made it decided
ly interesting for us.
John w. Breidenthal, whose esti-
mates last year of the benefits Kansas
secured from her wheat crop were re-
garded as standard, says Kansas has
ten millions of bushels more wheat
this year than last. "Our people may
not get quite so much money out of
the crop as they did last year." he said,
"but more wheat money will stay in
Kansas. 1 base my estimates of crop
on information that comes in from
every direction, but my figures would
place the crop at seventy million
bushels. 1 believe last years crop
reached sixty million bushels. When
Letter thought he was master of the
wheat situation and the supply was
gone, farmers dug into the granaries
and brought out fifty million bushels
more. Kansas furnished ten million
of that 1 believe"