The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1898-08-26

One farmer in northern Kansas has
1,400 acres Of wheat.
A Wamcga minister is the possessor
of Gettysburg lecture.
Brigadier Carol, who was wounded
at Santiago will shortly return to
Lawrence.
Leavenworth newspapers are roast
ing each other on their style of writ
ing up events.
Wier City coal mines are working
double shift. The 'scrip" decision
gives universal satisfaction.
Neosho county has Jail which is
companion piece to the Mitchell coun'
ty court house. Both have to be prop
ped up to keep them from tumbling
over.
The old settlers of Cowley county
will hold meeting in the near future
to make arrangements to hold an old
settlers reunion at some early date in
the fall
Stone quarries which will give en-
ployment to 25 or 80 men all the time
will be opened up near the town of
Eskridge. The product will be used
by the Santa Fe.
Seven divorce cases are filed for the
September court in Nemaha county.
In one action brought to set aside the
CALLING matrimonial yoke the couple
have been hooked up together since
1869.
In one shipment last week eight car
loads of Christmas goods were received
in Kansas City from Antwerp. In
short time these goods will be scatter
ed all over the state of Kansas which
is the Santa Claus of Kansas City.
Of course it is against the law, but
there are lots of prairie chickens and
quail being killed in Kansas just now.
A great many people in Kansas regard
the game law just as great many
other people regard the prohibitory
law.
Ed Hoch is in favor of maintaining
the war tax until every cent of the
war expenditure is paid. j. S. Car
penter goes him one better and moves
that it is kept in force and effect until
the United States has navy on foot
ing with the best afioat.
The Lincoln Beacon says that "1n
Lincoln county it appears that ~ a
day with the threshing machine has
proven a superior attraction to the
Normal with nearly all the male teach
ers who held longtime certificates
which do not expire this fall"
A story is going the rounds of the
papers about Texas farmer who kill
ed himself because his crops were so
great he had no place to store them.
The only remarkable thing about this
story is that it was not sprung years
ago on some man from Kansas.
The old settlers of Allen, Anderson,
Coffey and Woodson counties will have
gathering at Neosho Falls, Aug. 25
and 90, where they will tell the mem
bers of the younger generation some of
the difficulties they met with in the
Kansas land of the years gone by.
During the summer months the Mis-
souri, Pacific railroad makes a special
rate for parties who wish to put in
Sunday at LATE Smiths mineral spring
at Waconda. Not very many Kansans
are posted regarding this spring. Back
east people drink water shipped from
Waconda and think it is very warm
article
The lightning rod craze appears to
have died out in this country. You do
not see nearly as many lightning rods
upon houses now as you did few
years ago. 1t appears as though the
country folks have noticed that the
town people seldom ever use rods on
their houses and they are following
suit. Lightning rods are only an or
nament, anyway.
A year or so ago Horace Moulton,
druggist, and one of the well known
men of northwest Kansas lost his life
as the result of lamp explosion. Last
week a monument was received at
Smith Center for erection over his
grave. 1t was of Scotch marble, and
was shipped direct from Aberdeen,
Scotland. The freight and charges on
the stone amounted to over $40.
Residents of Vesper, a small place
near the center of Lincoln county,
claim that an earthquake visited that
locality last week. A rumbling noise