The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1898-07-29
Lincoln county is soon to have new

| Jun.
Ex-Governor Morrill, is planning a
trip to Hawaii.
The Osborne county fair Will be held
September 20 to %, inclusive
In Leavenworth county they arrest
negro evangelists when they get too
noisy.
A Kansas lieutenant at camp Alger
has been reduced for characterization.
This is bad.
There is deed lying in the record
er's office at Wellington that will cost
| SIS in revenue stamps to file.
The army relief society is giving So
cia.i at Hutchinson for the benefit OF
the Kansas boys at Chickamauga
The socialists of southeastern Kan
sas are considering the nomination OF
candidate for congress from the third
| district.
A Shawnee county attorney has op-
ened a law office in New York, where
he will continue to practice his pro-
| fession.
The traclllayers have commenced
work on the new branch of the Santa
Fe railroad, between Cherryvale and
Coffeyville.
Andrew j. Thomas, aged ninety-tve,
has arrived in Atchison looking for
relatives he has never seen and whose
names he cannot remember.
1t is believed at Leavenworth that
Jas. Longley who was reported killed
at Santiago, is not dead, as the war
department has no official information
of the fact
There is great gathering into the
fold going on in Rocks county. One
day recently e. were baptized in the
waters of Bow creek. The work is be-
ing done by a hoy preacher.
Kansas women cook well but Kan
sas boy died at Frisco because he de-
voured too many cakes and pies. They
were not cooked by Kansas women,
which may have had something to do
with it.
The Omaha Bee says: A Kansas far
mer found a grape vine which had
twined about peach tree so tightly
as to absorb the sap from the latter,
and, behold, the lunches of grapes
were clusters of lucious peaches.
johnson Jordon. the negro in the
Collins case who is under bond to re-
main in the county of Shawnee, is be
ing driven from the county by the po-
police. He is bad negro and no jury
will convict anyone on the testimony
he gives
Lieutenant Thomas Darrah, former
ly of Leavenworth, writes from the
trenches on a captured hill in front of
Santiago, July 4, to his sister at Leav-
enworth that the night before the son
of an English consul visited the camp
and told him Spaniards were surprised
when told the Americans were ration
ed daily.
Clint w. Graham, of company |, 22d
Kansas, is another one of the Kansas
boys who is getting to the front in
military way. He went out as pri-
vate, was promoted to be first sergeant
of his company, and now has been
sent on up and holds the position of
first lieutenant. 1t must make man
feel good to get put in the officers list
after starting out as n plain, common
private.
One Kansas milling firm evades the
revenue stamp law in this way: When
load of wheat is bought. the buyer
gives a weigh check, similar to all
weigh checks The farmer presents it
at the bank and is given his money.
Just before the bank closes its bust
ness for the day the wheat buyer gives
check that will cover all the weigh
checks received by the bank during
the day, making one revenue stamp
answer for the days purchases.
The farmers of Mcpherson county
are busy threshing and wheat is max
ing more than they figured on, and
the quality is fair. 1t tests around 60
pounds. 1t is averaging about twenty
bushels per acre. Some fields are
reaching thirty-two bushels per acre.
| The southwest corner of Mcpherson
county and the northeast corner of
Reno county is one of the best wheat
belts in the state. and when the far,
mers fail to raise wheat there they fail
most everywhere.
Earl Rowan, the seventeen-year-old
son of widow living in johnson coun-
ty, was working with threshing
gang, and while in the act of stepping
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