The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1898-07-01

the new Santa Fe railroad bridge neal
Emporia.
1t is said that the hay crop will be
immense this season, owing to the con-
tinued wet weather.
One of the soldier boys sent forth
from lola is graduate of the state I'M
iversity and also of Harvard. And he
is only private.
The Atchison Globe says that there
is farmer in that county who does
his own homework and makes SIX
pounds of butter day.
There was almost riot in Huron
the other day when the town marshal
rounded up and took charge of a lot OF
tramp cows, but the marshal proved
that he had right to and the trouble
was averted.
The Robinson Index has figured it
out that Doniphan county has spent
81 per day for this last ten years in eff
forts to enforce the prohibition law,
and during that time has received ~
cents day in fines.
The Humboldt band will dazzle the
natives on the Fourth of July by APP
pearing in new and beautiful uniforms
and with new instruments. The uni
forms will catch the crowd. Half the
people enjoy looking at pretty band
better than hearing a good one play.
There is a queer state of things at
Humboldt The city has light tower
and the gas that should be used in it is
going to waste every day, and it is not
kept burning; natural gas, too, that
don't cost peseta. There is consider
able kicking about it. A town that
has the facilities for lighting that
Humboldt has ought not to be in the
dark.
Something is wrong with Kansas
this year. Here it is this late in the
season. and as yet no farmer has come
to town with an alfalfa root forty feet
long. People have been giving so much
attention to wheat that alfalfa roots
have been neglected This is not right
and some one should get to the front.
The fortyfoot alfalfa root gets lots of
free advertising for d country every
year.
Conway Springs will soon be con-
nected by telephone line with all the
principal towns in southern Kansas
A letter has been received from the
manager of the Missouri 6 Kansas
company, that all the mon
ey asked for has been subscribed and
is now on deposit, the building of the
line to be commenced at once. A line
will be built from Wellington to Ar
gonia, and line from Conway Springs
will connect with that, between Milan
and Mayfeld. This will connect Con-
way Springs with all the Missouri and
Kansas towns throughout the state
and also with the long distance line to
Kansas City and st. Joe
Following is a list of special days at
the Omaha exposition, commencing
July list: July 1, Texas Melon and
Grape Day; ., Christian Endeavor Day;
4, Independence Day; 7, and o, Louis
lana Days; II, Massachusetts Day; IA,
Ida Co. and Ida Grove iowa Day: 10,
Des Moines Day; 20, Minnesota Day.
August 4, Stenographers' Day; 10, Red
Mems Day; II, Tennessee Red Mems
Day; Is, Business and Fraternal Ass'ns.
Day; IS, Texas Day; %, Bohemian Day;
80, Missouri Day. September l, Kansas
Day; 3, Editors Day; 5, Labor Day; S,
Druggists Day; Q, Woodmen of the
World Day: 10, Chicago Day; IA, Ma
tional Shriners' Day; Is, New England
Day; 16, Oklahoma Day; IS and 10,
Modern Woodmen Days; 20 and p,
Iowa Days; "a, Commercial Travellers
Day. October 7, Knox College Day; II,
|. o. O. F. Day; IS, Tennessee Day.
A Hodgeman county man calls atten-
ton to the fact that not within the.
memory of the oldest inhabitant has
there been such a heavy growth of
grass and weeds on the prairies at this
time of the year; and, the more grass
and weeds, the hotter will be the prai
RE fires which will be sure to come
next fall and next spring. He urges
more and better fire guards, and calls
to Chapter 100 of the revised
statutes of 1897, which provides that
any township may vote for fire tax
not exceeding two mills for this pur-
pose. A petition to the township trus-
tee, signed by one-third of the voters
of the township is necessary to call an
election to take such action. Many
have complied with this
law, but it is something to which it
would be well for all the residents of
the western portion of the state to
give attention. 1t is terrible hard
ship for the farmer to see his crops lost
to him after it has been harvested. If