The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1898-08-12
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

lola SolulerS at san Francisco are 10
organize mandolin club.
Pawnee county is arranging to have
big exhibition at Omaha.
1t is now charged that the Kansas
boys used those night shirts to clean
heir guns.
A southern Kansas farmer says that
bone meal fed to cattle will ward off
Texas fever.
Jessie Osborne, of Lyons county, has
asked for divorce from her husband.
She is Is and he is c..
The recent rains made such a corn
crop around Emporia the newspapers
do not attempt to estimate it.
An Atchison man, so years of age,
ran away from home last week to get
married. His children objected to the
match.
A. G. Thackery, railroad man was
killed by train at Osawatomie last
Saturday. He was trying to steal
ride.
The money obtained from the sale of
irrigation plants in Grant and Gray
counties will be turned into the gener-
al revenue fund.
Hired girls at Clay Center demand
certificates of good character of the
man of the house before accepting pos
ition with them.
Topeka has chance to distinguish
herself without paying any money.
She should change the name of Shaw
nee county to Schley.
P. E. Temple, travelling man from
Chicago, was arrested and fined $50 at
Lawrence Saturday for assaulting an
eleven year old girl
The editor of the Powhattan Post
says that horse thief is more re-
spectacle member of society than
pettifogging lawyer
Conway township in Sumner county,
last week paid off $4,000 worth of six
per cent railroad bonds, issued in 1886
to run thirty years, for the purpose of
saving interest.
In a fight up in Norton county one
of the scrappers pulled gun and gave
exhibition of such wild shooting that
the Logan Republican says it was
disgrace to American craftsmanship.
There are at least two times when
nice things are said of Kansan:
When his announcement as a candi-
date for office appears in his party pa
per. and when his obituary is prined.
A resident of Osawkie who probably
doesn't take his pen in hand very often
dropped letter in the posioffice the
other day addressed to some point in
Iowa on which, in place of the requis-
lite two-cent stamp he had placed the
letters &c. O. D."
Isaac Lane, first cousin of the fam
GUS Jim Lane of Kansas, and one of
the early settlers of the state, in an in
mate of the poor house near Holton,
Kan. After years of toll, the old man,
now over 90 years of age, was COMPEL
ed to give up the unequal struggle and
few weeks ago he took the sad jour
ney cover the hill to the poor house"
The Agricultural college delivers the
milk from its 80 cows to the Manhat-
tan creamery and is making a trial of
methods of keeping milk sweet with
the facilities found on all farms. The
weather during the past week has
been excessively hot, yet without ice
and with well water at 60 degrees, the
college milk has been delivered in
good condition when SO hours old, and |
often when 4S hours of age.
Leavenworth citizens, according to
the reports of the banks, have certain
" done their share in assisting
the government by buying the bonds
recently issued on the war loan. The
reports show that about $500, 900 worth
of bonds were subscribed for, but part
of this amount will probably be re-
turned, as many have subscribed for
s., 900 worth, while $4,000 is the larg-
est amount that one individual can
take.
An exchange says that Kansas
hog raiser in giving his experience in
feeding hogs, stated that five acres of
sweet potatoes would fatten more hogs
than twenty-five acres of corn. He
had sixty hogs that would yield him
$4,000 pounds of pork, and he estimates
the cost of their feed at not more than
S26 actual cash, for labor and other
expenses in his sweet potato patch.
He also claims that this food imparts
a flavor to the meat that far surpasses
that of corn for the animal.
Lawrence has committee of seven
teen which is soliciting money with
which to put the electric road PROPOSE