The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1898-11-04

/ Kansas is having genuine autumn
weather again since the recent cold
wave.
The Kansas coal dealers report bust
ness on the standstill during the past
few days
The wheat fields throughout Kansas
are looking fine. Good rains are re-
ported all over the state.
Kansas stock were never in better
condition for the approaching winter.
There will be little suffering in Kan
sas this winter.
An enormous amount of prairie hay
has been put up in Kansas during the
past hay season. Kansas has thous
ands of head of cattle to consume il
that it never had before.
All classes of business men, excepf
doctors and undertakers, report bust
ness good in Kansas just at the presen'
time. Everybody has money and the.
are apparently putting in to might,
good use
The few heavy frosts that Kansas
has had during the month of October
has been severe blow to the littl'
vegetation it found in mother earth
In fact coal dealers are about the only
benefactors of cold wave.
The Missouri and Kansas Telephone
company has decided to build a telc'
phone line from Emporia to Council!
Grove This company will also con
struct q telephone line from Emporia
to Newton The poles for these two
lines have already been ordered.
These lines will take in all the inter-
mediate points,
Secretary Coburn is sending out
some very attractive reports regarding
the Kansas hog. 1t is shown in these
reports that the average Kansas pork
err is far ahead of the porller raised in
many of the other states. This will nc
doubt be encouraging news to many
of the extensive hog-raisers in the
Sunflower State. This industry is in
creasing with the Kansas farmers
every year.
Edward Bissell, of Sedgwicl1, was
terribly injured last week by the acct
dental explosion of his shotgun. Mr..
Bissell was hunting in Mcpherson
county and wSs just going into shed
belonging to a friend to put away his
gun, when he dropped it and it ex-
ploded. The shot ranged upward.
Some lodged in the pit of his stomach,
some in the lower jaw, portion of his
nose was torn off, as was part of his
eyebrows and left hand.
A Kansas man recently went to Ok
lahoma where he bought big bunch
of cattle, intending to feed them. AS
soon as he had completed the deal the
farmers of the neighborhood got to-
gether and raised the price of corn
several cents on the bushel. The Kan
san remarked that he had learned sew
eral useful schemes in his youth, and
quietly took a scoot to a point $50
miles distant Here he contracted for
all the corn he needed to feed his cat
tie, at decent price, and then pro-
ceeded to drive the steers to the corn.
The real Kansas hustler is mighty
hard to catch.
Outing Magazine for November.
Outing for November is an all alive
number, wide in its scope and timely
in its subjects. The horse in the show
ring, the football player on the grid
iron, the Golfer in championships, the
tennis player at the nets, the Yacht
on the storm-tossed bosom of old
ocean, the trapper in the woods, the
athlete in his Chicago home, the Sal
mon, the Deer and the Goose are only
some of it's varied contents by such
well-known authorities as Walter
Camp on Football, j. Parmley Paret on
Tenniss, A. II. Godfrey on the Horse,
Ed w. Sandys on Rod and Gun, A. j.
Kenealy and E. L. II. McGinnis on
Yachting and II. L. Fitz Patrick on
Golf.
A man who was injured at Independ-
ence last year by Missouri Pacific
train has sued the company for S37,-
600.
The people of Marysville were not
only short on coal when the storm of
last week showed up, but the dealers
were shy also
An organized band of horse and cat
tie thieves is working on wholesale
scale in counties in the southeastern
part of the state. Twenty-seven head
of cattle were stolen from one pasture
in Montgomery county.
A cowboy preacher is holding forth
in southern Kansas.
The Osborne county whisky cases