The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1898-02-18

Graphobia, took run through Craw
ford county last week and bit and lac
Grated several children.
Nj over the state the papers are an
) nouucing the rapid sale of Kansas
farms at enormous prices. The east
ern people are apparently gratitied t'
pick them up at almost any old price
so eager are they to invest in Kansa;
soil.
Fred Funston is generally given
credit for a great deal of patriotism
and love of liberty in pursuing the
course he did in aiding the Cubans'
Funston himself says that it was Curl
osity which led him into piece of boy
ish folly.
Some patriot comes to the front with
a desire that Kansas will furnish some
more aid for irrigation experiments
The state tried this scheme once, and
can express its feelings in the matter
in the words of that good old song,
"Onee was enough for me.
The Arkansas City Traveller says
that preacher hates to reprimand the
bad children of good supporter of his
church for misconduct during services
as bad as an editor hates to roast
business man who 10 carrying an ad-
vertisement in his paper.
An Atchison girl last week married
an ut-of-town man and there is every
reason for believing that he amounts
to something. At least no one has
told that ne is a capitalist, big cattle
dealer, or banker Such stories are
usually told where the man is poor and
worthless.
Every paper you pick up you viii!
read that Kansas farm has been sold
at from S3, 900 to S., 900, This is a good
showing for the suntlower state, and
speaks well for the fertility of her
/ soil. Real estate in Kansas is steadily
advancing, and it would seem that now
it the proper time to buy before the
advance reaches the top notch. The
present wheat prospects will have
tendency to continue the gradual rise
! in Kansas real estate.
The program carried out by the
school children of Kansas on Artor day
of this year will be prepared by Mr. E.
D Wheeler of Ogallah, Kan, commits
soner of forestry and irrigation. Mr..
Wheeler suggested to the superintend-
ent of instruction that he be allowed
to prepare uniform program and Mr..
! STRIKER told him that he would see
| that it was carried out in all the school
| districts in the state. In the program,
Mr.. Wheeler will endeavor to interest
the children to some extent in forestry
pursuit means. 1t will include practi-
cal demonstrations in the way of
planting trees and shrubs. Mr.. Wheel
er will endeavor to have the rudiments
of forestry included in course of in
struction at the teachers institute
! throughout the state.
Twenty of the wealthiest farmers
and business men of SedgwiclS, Sum
ner and Reno counties met at Wichita
Feb. 10th and formed an organization
| Protective association of Southern
/ Kansas, to raise funds and for carry
| ing on the fight against the Colorado
Irrigation Ditch companies. Repre-
sentative Silas Rutledge was elected
president and call was seut to the
city councils OF the cities along the
Arkansas river from Great Bend to
Arkansas City, and the county officers
of Reno, Sedgwick and Cowley coun-
ties to meet in Wichita Feb. 10, to per-
feet plans for raising SEQ, 600 to push
| the suit for an injunction against the
Rocky Ford, COL, ditch companies, and
to put a test case through the United
! States supreme court The member
ship Of the association will be about
100
In Wichita county the wheat is up
and looks well, but much sown that is
not yet above the ground
Judge Guthrie, Topelta's new post
master, proposes to shake up the mail
| ing department of the local office. He
says that the clerks are not routing
the mail right He will ask the post
master general to order an eXamina-
ton held at Topeka TO establish the
qualifications of mailing clerks. The
examination is to be conducted on the
same plan as that governing railway
postal clerks.
Last summer the Kansas man who
started for the Kondilse was regarded
as a hero; now he is. looked upon as a
fool The country papers are full OF
indignant denials from men who have
been accused of Klondike ambitions.
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