The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1898-08-26
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

A contagious disease is killing many
Of the hogs in Butler county.
Council Grove citizens want the
weeds in that town cut down.
Wichita county claims to have two
carloads of wheat for every voter.
The Haskell football team at Law
renee have already commenced prac-
tce.
Counterfeit money is bobbing up in
the wake of circus which is making
Kansas,
The Chickamauga boys have had
less trouble than any other body OF
Kansas troops.
Most of the papers of Kansas point
with pride to the statement of the To-
cal bank in their last issue.
On voting 5000 bonds to buy the
water works plant, 2s7 people at Ar
kansas City voted against it.
Since the colored volunteers of To
reka have been paid off they are the
swellest coons in all Topeka.
A nice Jersey calf, belonging to
Butler county man, drank half pint
Of white paint. Naturally, the calf
died.
The Sunday schools around Sterling
are in middle All want to hold
separate picnic in one park at one
time.
Kansas was visited by another good
rain on August 18th. A good rain is
no uncommon occurrence in Kansas
this year.
A smallpox epidemic is reported at
Manitou Springs, Colorado. Kansans
who contemplate going there should
he careful.
A policeman at Leavenworth has
discovered well forty feet deep, and
half full of water, under a sidewalk on
Main street.
There is scheme on foot to resur-
rect the old electric light plant at
Stockton which was in operation dur
ing the days of the boom.
"There is more money being brought
in here than will be taken out" writes
an Osborne county young man who is
up in the Klondike country.
AsEI
The organization of company Of
Wichita capitalists to start boom in
Cuba is only another evidence that
the Pearl of the Antilles is not through
with trouble.
This is the season when the corn
smell makes the country fragrant. If
man is true Kansan to his heels,
he regards this corn swell sweeter
than any dollar-an-ounce perfume.
A spring is said to have been found
in Kansas that spouts intoxicating
water The poets will cease to twang
their tuneful Tyres to old mother ma
ture if they find out that she has gone
into the "moonshine" business.
The members of the cowboy band
who recently passed through Kansas
certainly are thoroughbreds. At OF
tawa they attached their cards to full
bottles Of beer, and pitched the bottles
out of car windows to the crowd about
the depot
There is nothing in Kansas too good
for the rough riders. When Private
Grant Travis came back sick and
wounded the good people of Anthony
too up subscription of one hundred
dollars and sent him to health resort
to recuperate.
A steam pillow pulled by an eighteen
horse power threshing engine is in
operation in Sumner county. The en-
CINE pulls four fourteen-inch plows,
cutting six inches deep, but can han
die six plows if necessary. 1t is being
used in field of sunfowers in which
1t would be impossible for team to
work. The gentleman who is using it
Is doing SO for the purpose of deter
mining whether land can be plowed
as cheaply by team as by horse power.
so
Talking about sugar beets Kansas
enthusiast on this subject says: when
the corn is dropping for the want of
rain and whitening under the hot
winds, sugar beet is perfecting its
Juices, and calmly absorbing the ele-
ments of sweetness from the orb of
day and the Texas zephyr, while it
modestly sits in the fertile soil of the
Arkansas Valley" Judging from this
then, it might be good plan for the
corn raiser of the aforesaid valley to
shedge" with field of sugar beets.
in this manner he would be prepared
70 derive benefit from any brand OF
Of climate on tap.
The Kansas boys have no genuine
kick coming. Not one of the boys al