The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1898-03-11

10 INC poOh-heeper
These Kansas zephyrs that we heal
so much about get very rambunctiou
at times. One of them tipped over the
mail wagon three times between At
wood and Colby on one trip last week
Twenty young ladies of Council
Grove BACKED up and gave a minstre
show for the benefit of the town lib
rary and while it was rather trying
ordeal for the audience it cleaned NJ
500.
The Santa Fe will rent the sides o.
it's freight cnrs for advertising pur
poses While these advertisements
will be poor, they will be better thar
advertisements in some OF the newspa-
pers the Santa Fe owns.
The father of the Kansas fat girl, OF
Wakefield, has received offers from
museum managers of Chicago and New
York who wish to place her on exhibi-
ton. She is eight years and seven
months and weighs 2s4 pounds.
f. NJ Whitlaw, of Dickinson county,
who has in the past proved irrigation
to be a good thing for vegeta BILE farm
ing, will this year go into it more ex-
tensively than ever and of his fine river
bottom farm fully 65 acres will be un-
der irrigation. Part of this land will
be in Spanish onions, ten acres. Five
acres will be in watermelons, five in
sweet potatoes, five in late cabbage,
thirty in irish potatoes and the remain
der in small truck.
There is station agent out on the
western end Of the Central Branch who
is leary of cyclones, and is pretty well
fixed should one come frisliing around
his way. He has cave dug near the
depot, and also one at home. The
latter one is connected with the cellar
under his house by subterra mean
passage so that he can take refuge in
it without exposing himself to the fury
of the storm, and he can go out either
into the open air or by way of
the house in case it is not wrecked.
On February 2sth Mrs. Anna Keller,
living near Good Intent, Atchison
was found dead by the road
side near her home by some school
while on their way to school.
Her husband had jolsed her about some
trivial matter and she became so an
yered that she went to stream near
by and jumped in. 1t is the SUPPOSE
ion that the water was too cold to
lie comfortably, and she got out and
started back to the house, dying from
sudden exposure. She was 61 years old
Four Summer county convicts depart
ID March / for Lansing to serve out
heir respective terms i'll the state
The convcts who were
aiken were Sam Smith, the summer
county desperate, convicted of grand
arceny; George G Cox, the Arson depot
burglar; Chas. Meade, one of tia men
Who stole Judge j. w. Chapman's har-
less and John James Jones, the man
Who stole wheat of F. NJ. Yates of
Milan. Cox was convicted of burglary,
he other three of grand larceny. Each
vas sentenced to one year in the peni-
entiary.
Marion county is abundantly pros
porous under peculiar conditions-pec.
liar because last year was the worst |
orn year since the memorable grass
topper season." early in the '70s for
he greater part of the county. Corn |
vas almost a complete failure in the |
outh two-thirds of the county, while /,
he north third had about one-half crop
short corn crop in this part of Kansas |
las not the meaning now it had twen-
y years ago. Then it meant extreme
hard times" to the entire community
md suffering to many. Now it means
essening of profits for the one year to
o the farmer and business man.
1t is now about time for the asses
ors to be treated to the annual demon
tration of the utter lack of, or the |
Elasticity of the conscience of the
.verage Kansas man when he is called |
lpon to make out his tax return.
A story is going the rounds to the
fleet that J. S. Loomis of Diamond |
springs, in Morris county, is milking a
ow that when in good condition |
Weighs 270 pounds A COW that won't |
egister any more than that on the
Gales ought to be conceded the privil-
ge of sucking herself.
Atchison people have been feeling
ather grouchy of late over an increase
n the rates of electric lighting, and an
fort will be made to introduce acety-
enc gas over there
There are about 100 foreign insurance
doing business in Kansas at