The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1898-06-24

just S25 an acre on the crop.
The harvest season has opened in
southern Kansas.
The electric light plant at Usage
City is now owned by the city.
The wheat area in Osborne county
shows an increase of 23,3G7 acres over
last year
Jacob Livingood, IA years of age, son
of George Livingood, who lives four
miles north of Independence, was kill
ed while riding on cultivator blowing
corn. His team became frightened and
ran away, throwing the boy under the
cultivator, crushing his skull and
mangling his body terribly.
In Harper county the continuous
rains of last week iInperiled the enorm-
Gus wheat crop 1t has been ready Tor
the harvester several days past but the
machines mire in the soft fields, find
ing it impossible to move. Winds and
the heavy weight of moisture on the
heads have broken down the wheat
generally.
When the appellate courts were es-
tablished in Shawnee county. three
years ago the supreme court was years
behind with it's business. 1t is now
stated that within one year it Will nave
caught up so that case can be heard
soon after it is filed. 1t will certainly
be satisfactory to litigants who have
had to wait for years for final decis-
ion.
Geo T. Pricer, of Brown county, is
the pioneer of a movement that will be
popular with many of the farmers.
He has put in telephone and al
though he lives full two miles south of
town. can converse with his Hiawatha
friends at pleasure. Those farmers
who wish to get thoroughly in touch
with Hiawatha will lose no time in
putting in telephones.
Several years ago fellow by the
name of Gordon worked gold brick
ganfe on n jefferson county farmer.
He was arrested and gave cash bond
of So 600. His attorneys got this cut
to 81, 800 and put up a bond and with
drew the cash. Now the Shawnee
county district court holds that the
bond was void because it was approved
by the clerk of the supreme court in
stead of the court itself.
James Parker, fine old gentlemen,
was run over by the cars and lS@ed at
Winfield the other day while picking
up coal along the railroad track. He
was one of the California Argonauts
and accumulated fortune which pass
ed from him in his declining years.
Though having no children of his own,
he reared and educated no less than
fifteen orphan waits picked up in his
travels about the world.
The natural gas question is no long
er an experiment at Ottawa. The well
has been cased and tested with salts
factory results. At the test, it showed
gas pressure of 100 pounds per square
inch, with an increase of about
pound per minute, so that it is safe &c
say that the pressure of the gas will
reach about 200 pounds, which means
about one million cubic feet per day.
The company is very well pleased with
their results and have shut the well
up, taken down the derrick and moved
it about 700 feet almost due north,
where another well will be drilled. If
the gas found there be of as much
pressure as has already been struck in
the present well it will also be cased
and finished up for use in connection
with the well already down. Another
will then be drilled down to the last
layer of sand to determine what are
the prospects for getting still greater
pressure. During the drilling of the
second well, the gas from the present
well will be used in making steam.
Kansas with 400 creameries, includ'
ing skimming stations, is surely des-
tined to be the butter .Ictory of the
country in the course of few years.
The recent big convention in Topeka
gave a new impetus to this branch of
farm work and the rapid increase in
the number of creameries this spring
is little less than marvellous. With
attractive prices and SO far very
favorable season the output of Kansas
creameries this season will be enorm-
GUS. Eastern buyers have invaded
the state just lately and are buying
big supplies at present. However,
these buyers will return to the East as
the storage season ends and then many
proprietors of creameries will be look
ing for an outlet, some place where
their production can be profitably put
durinp the entire year In this re-