The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1898-04-15

/ Crude petroleum is used rs fuel in
! the lime kilns of Allen county.
The Kansas farmers are busy plant
| ing corn and the garden making is in
full blast.
During the past week. thousands OF
acres of corn has been planted over
the state of Kansas.
The Easter ad of Kansas milliner
says THE lovely bloom of newness is
on everything in our stock. !"
Three Rush county farmers bought
pianos last week for their daughters.
Rush county is in the short grass coun-
try, too.
OF course it was Senator Harris that
passed the bill through the Senate Sc
curing an appropriation of $40, 00o for
the state unsiversity.
Book beer has arrived at Topeka and
has met with warm welcome. 1t ar
rived month ahead of time, but there
is nothing too fast for Topeka.
The Lawrence Gazette is anxious for
war in order to ascertain whether Gen
eral Miles will make as good record
facing cannons as he has done facing
the photographers cameras.
The economy of the legislature has
put an end to the circulation of the
labor laws complied by Labor Commits
sioner johnson. and every person who
wants a copy between now and the
time the legislature meets must send
cents in stamps. The stamps appro-
priation is exhausted.
Governor Leedy has asccrtained he
is man of some distinction. He has
been reading up the records of sons
and daughters of the American revolu-
ton and finds that he is the only per-
son living who had an ancestor in the
revolutionary war who was not cap
tain, colonel or general. His grand
father was private.
Without taking into consideration
the clovers and alfalfa, the tame grass
es promise very little to the Kansas
stockman. There are only II few east
ern counties where timothy can be pro-
fitably grown. Every trial of the us
ual tame grasses which | can name has
only proved their utter incapacity to
stand the test of Kansas climate. The
prairie grasses, on the contrary, have
and periodically passed
though the ordeal of cold, heat, drought
and fire until they have become adapt
ed to all the vicissitudes of our climate
and situation. They have adapted
to our soil better than it
would be possible for any of the Guilt
waited species to do for many hundred
years to come This being the fact
it is folly for farmer to destroy all
of his wild grasses with the eXpecta
ton that tame species can be found tc
take their place.
Kentucky long held the champion
belt in fine cattle, but it has come west
by way of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and
Iowa, until the late sale of Short-horns
by Senator Harris, where the herd of
Queen Victoria was recruited, demon
strated that Kansas had taken the lead
in Short-horns. and now the more re-
cent sale at the Cross farm has shown
that Kansas leads in Herefords. Why
should not the cattle industry in Kan
sas take fresh hope-from its leaders
down to the lessee of heifer calf?
If not more prosperous, the people are
more cheerful. 1t cannot be
possible that we are not over the worst,
and a young country recuperates with
the hope and enthusiasm of young
man. In the last five years the coun7
try has largely increased in population,
while the cattle supply has greatly di'
minished, and this difference is to be
provided for.
Chancellor Snow says that Lawrence
citizens have raised $1,000 to rebuild
the buildings recently burned.
In letters received by Chancellor
Snow from state senators who have
been written to in regard to reimburs-
ing those who put up the money for
the replacing of the machinery lost by
fire at Kansas university couple of
weeks ago, the sentiment is almost
in favor of the plan of
raising the money now and providing
for its payment at the next session of
the legislature.
Lawrence wants to get the next
Grand Army reunion and is willing to
pay handsome sum for it.
One patron delivers daily to the
Glasco creamery 200 pounds of milk,
and as soon as all his cows get to do
ing their full duty he will increase the
amount to 300 pounds. 1t takes work
to do this All the money which the
farmer receives for butter fat is not