The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1898-03-04

! fever.
Burlington's court house has beer
! condemned as unsafe.
A Douglass county man has gone Il
Cuba for the Central Union Cuban com
= mittee, of New York, with Miss Clar,
Barton.
The lists of cattle brands in the pa
Z pers of southwest Kansas are growing
in length, which means that they are
keeping step with the weasel skin OF
the feeders.
The superintendent Of grounds at the
Capitol has built trocha around the
State house. He says it is to keep peo-
pie off tho grass, but it looks as if he
intended it as line of defense against
the Spaniards.
The disciplinary committee of the
Kansas University faculty has sent out
notices to $50 students who have been
negligent in complying with the rules
of the institution. The committee will
act on the cases if the students do not
report promptly.
Did you ever read or hear of cham
pion corn-husSer? Well, as in every
thing else, Kansas leads in this pecu-
liar vocation or sport, as you choose to
put it. Jake Joerg of Randall, Jewell
county, is the champion corn-huslSer of
| the United States. His record is TWEEN
| ty-seven bushels in one hour, and he
uses only his bare hands in husking
| When you consider that wagon bed
with sideboards on will only hold about
| twenty-five bushels, this is some huslI-
ing.
Since the destruction of the Carbon
dale school building by fire on the 4th
inst, the city has been without school.
A public meeting was held last week
to discuss the ACCESSIBILITY of continu-
ing the schools to the end of the uneX-
pred term. After much discussion, a
vote was taken on motion authoriz-
ing the board of education to proceed
in the matter of renting and fitting up
rooms for school purposes, but the
proposition was negativated by a very
small majority. This action leaves the
city without schools until the compile
tion of the contemplated new structure
next fall.
During the past year over two thou
sand cars of wheat were shipped out OF
Rush county. A little figuring will
show the magnitude of the statement.
Call it an even 1000 cars, each averag-
ing 700 bushels and the total amounts
to l, 100000 bushels. Eighty cents a
bushel is not too high an estimate for
for the average price paid for it, and
and this runs up to 81, 800, 900, Accord.
ing to Secretary Columns report fol
1866 the population of Rush county is
almost an even 5000; SO that the
proceeds from the sale of this amount
of wheat may be said to present $20t
'per capiter" or $1,000 for every family.
averaging five each.
A Hodgeman county hunter give,
the following reasonable tale and is
ready to back it up: Say, mister, you
may talk about the smart things done
by animals; how quick monkeys, dogs,
etc. will catch on to the tricks of hui
man beins and soon learn how to be as
smart as they be or smarter, but of all
the cute things l ever see or hearn tell |
on, is the way the rabbits are fixin'
themselves since the bounty was put
on ag'in. Tother day l was out hunt.
in an seen big jack a settin' by a
soapweed an rs he didn't seem inclin-
ed to move l thought l would see jest
how clost l could get to him. AS l kept |
a gettin' closter, he kept settin' there
quiet like; jest stuck up one ear kinder
prominent like an when l got clost |
enough 10 see I-swan-to-man! Just as |
true as 1 am tellin' it, if that there
rabbit didn't have his ears branded |
with these words: Don't shoot! lam
a nonresident. No good for bounty in
this county, then you may take me for
a untruthful sinner"
A Sumner county man died last week
leaving his estate valued at Sc, 900 to
his third wife. Now the children OF
his two former wives have pooled their
issued and are after the widow.
Two large skeletons, supposed to be
the remains of Indians, were found in
a crevice ia the rocks in stone quarry
one mile. west of Larned last week.
The bones were in perfect state of
preservation, but were devoid of every
particle of flesh and muscle. The |
bones of dog were found with the
human skeletons. |
The greatest transfer of real estate
i'll the history of Rush county was last
week, when Twenty-Five quarter sec
tions were sold for SIG, Gss.
A majority Of the people have never
heard that the making of maple sugar