The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1898-07-29
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

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comotive works.
The Godsend rains have begun to
fall in Kansas.
The undertakers have perfected a
state organization.
An eXpressman was arrested at
Leavenworth recently for violating
the war revenue tax.
An Atchison man says he cured him
self of neuralgia by holding kitten
to his face three times day
Both Forepaugh's and Ringing S
circuses will make western Kansas
this season. They will take in all
kinds of money.
The Santa Fe has issued orders keep
ing all its freight cars on its own
tracks. 1t will soon be necessary to
move the crops.
Many of the Kansas farmers will
build granaries and store their wheat.
They are in condition now that they
do not have to rush all of their grain
onto the market.
A nine-year-old Muscotah lad was
recently given twenty-five cents by his
mother as an inducement to have him
sprinkled in church by the preacher.
The Lad now wants to be sprinkled
every Sunday under the same condi-
lions.
DR.. George T. Fairchild, ex-president
of the Kansas Agricultural college, has
accepted the vice presidency and pro-
fessorship of English literature in
Berea college, Berea, Ky. The accep-
lance of this position takes him out of
agricultural college work for present
A Troy boy who three months ago
started for the Klondike telegraphed
to his parents from Seattle the other
day asking for funds with which to
make the return trip. His good for
tune consisted of being within reach
of Geographic communication in time
of need.
Forest Park, over in Atchison, is sur
rounded by barbed wire trocha in
order to keep out those who have not
the price. To make it more effective
during an exhibition the other night
the wires were charged with electrici-
~. This is going the Spaniards one
better.
As the Jensen Creamery company of
Beloit each month issues about 1900
checks, it will do its full share toward
paying the expenses incurred by the
war. Last month they paid $109.47 to
sutton q Robinson for butter fat.
These gentlemen are IN the cattle bus
mess, and devote considerable care and
attention to their mich cows
In going through some old papers
the other day Blue Rapids man found
some receipts for war taxes paid by
his father in the early seventies. One
was given in payment for license to
practice law, and the two others were
for real estate and the insurance bust
ness. All three of them were for the
same amount, $40, which shows the
difference between the war tax of
then and now.
The farmers of Rice county are more
than pleased with their crop of wheat.
1t is considered that Rice county
wheat is as good, if not better, than
any county in the state. Cooper &
Plumb are handling the bulk of the
wheat marketed at Lyons, and the
smallest test so far is 81 and the high
est GO. The yield is about twenty
bushels per acre. Rice county will
have ZOO, 600 bushels.
F. H. Roberts interviewed residents
of jefferson county on the streets of
Oskaloosa last week; farmers, mer-
and mechanics; taking them just as
they came, and Of all political faiths.
asking them their opinion as to wheth-
er the United States should keep the
islands captured from Spain. Their
replies indicate that the people of that
section are overwhelmingly in favor of
hanging on to everything that comes
our way in this manner.
On overland mail carrier up in north
west Kansas conceived the idea OF
building motor carriage in which to
make his trips across the prairie. He
fixed up the machine. and when his
labors were ended he had an imposing
array of wheels, shafting and belts,
and it would have been a bowling sue
cess but for the fact that after he had
it all geared up and ready to start the
blamed thing refused to run. He is
still making his trips in blackboard
style.
The old Jail in Neosho comfy is il
such ramshackle condition that al
the election this fall the people will be