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

Blind Boone, the pianist, is in Jail a
Pittsburg.
Larned is overrun by tramps, who
refuse to work.
The soldiers have left Hiawatha ant
the girls are broken hearted.
People in Newton are getting sicl
because there is water in their cellars
A Fort Scott private says he will fol
low his captain to hell to get to kill
Spaniard.
The state is now without militia
organization COR the first time since
the war.
Kansas will have on exhibition at
the Omaha show three car loads OF
cancelled farm mortgages.
Tramps have formed a league in
Sumner county and will not work in
the wheat fields for less than two dol
lars day.
The wheat is too far advanced in
southern Kansas for the black rust to
damage it. The season has not been
so wet in the southern part.
The Arkansas City fire department
is putting on metropolitan airs since
the waterworl1s plant has been started.
They have ordered bran new caps and
badges.
Nothing has been introduced in the
trial of Collins at Topeka which will
convict him. The Kansas City and To
peka papers are trying him and al
ready have him convicted.
According to the tax roll of 1857
twenty-six slaves were listed for taxa
ton in Leavenworth county, their to-
tai value being placed at $4,000. They
were valued at from $3.50 to 81, 900 "a
head"
A northern Kansas historian remem-
bers that twenty years ago-in 1875
Kansas had one of the biggest wheat
crops in her history, and it rained al
most continuously in May and June of
that year.
From the grave of Charles Winters
McCuna in Crawford county groans are
coming. The fact is telegraphed to
papers and of course is fake. If it
were true some one would take spade
and investigate.
There was circus in Dodge City the
other day: not very big circus either,
yet people came for forty miles across
the country to take in the show. A
circus is one thing that man nearly
always has the money to attend, even
if his shoes do need half-soling, but
this year everyone in Kansas has mon
ey. and the circuses which make this
state will fare well.
Within the past few days black
rust has settled upon many of the
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completely ruined them. The report
has been sent in from many different
neighborhoods, and some of the fields
that it was thought few days ago
would go thirty-fve bushels to the
acre, now seem so badly ruined that it
will not pay to cut them.
Here is the way correspondent of
the Alton Empire rubs it in on wan
derer: I'VE often think of W. II. Guion
~ho left Mt. Ayr township last fall
and went east to farm. He paid cash
for the privilege of stopping around in
the mud, when if he had but his place
here he would have made it all right.
And there are Others" Moral: 1t is
the slayer who wins out.
The Atchison Globe says: Some one
started story that Kansas was short
of school teachers, and superintendent
Strylker has been bothered since by
fully thousand teachers in other
states who desire to come to Kansas.
There is nothing in the shortage. If
the corr and wheat crops were always
as large as the crop of school teachers,
Kansas would be all right.
Cheap Excursions via Santa Fe Route.
North American Turner's Union Con-
vention at San Francisco July 5th 1898,
one fare for the round trip plus so cts.
Dates of sale June 2sth and Goth. Final
return limit August 31st, 1898.
international Mining Congress at
Salt Lake City, Utah, July 9th to 9th,
1898, one fare plus $500 for the round
trip. Dates of sale July 3rd, 1893.
Final return limit 20 days from date of
sale.
Tenth Triennial National Council of
Congregational Churches at Portland,
Oregon, July 9TH to 12th 1898, one fare
plus so cts for the round trip. Dates
of sale June Goth and July LIST, 1898.
Final return limit August 31st, 1895.
Attorney General Boyle is leading
the fight against the railroads for
equitable coal rates to Kansas towns
rho case is now IN in Topelxa and If