The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1898-09-30
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST,".

present.
Bethany college at Lindsborg owns
twenty pianos, has six rented, and is
still short.
A Linn county man who paid 800
for seven spring calves says that he
got bargain.
Safe crackers are getting in their
work at great rate over the state.
The crooks have read the papers and
learned that there is money in Kansas
this year.
The 18th day of September in Kan
sas this year was filed with fatalities.
Three were killed in railroad wreck
at Wichita, one at Newton and three
at Quenemo.
A Marshall county man has twenty
acres planted to potatoes, the average
yield of which he expects to exceed 200
bushels per acre; and potatoes are go
ing to bring good price this year,
too.
A number of Indians from the reser
walton went to Topeka to see Buffalo
Bills wild west show. Most of them
got gloriously drunk, were landed at
the police station and failed to see the
show.
L. w. Yaggy, five miles west OF
Hutchinson, has 100000 growing
catalpa trees. They cover 500 acres.
As they become large enough they are
being maids into and sold for fence
posts.
A man was drowned up in White
Rock the other day 1t seems that he
went to take bath after the long dry
spell, but the dry weather had so eff
fected him that the water rushed
through the pores of his skin and
drowned him before his friends could
60 to his relief.
Not long ago two Ellsworth county
men saved a passenger train from be-
ing wrecked by discovering a broken
rail Last week they were notified
that hereafter any time they desire to
make trip to any point on the Union
Pacific system transportation will be
issued them on demand.
Secretary Coburn says that western
Kansas can raise just as good melons
as Rocky Ford, Colorado, and should
DO it. We do. Train loads of melons
were shipped this year from Reno and
other counties in the west, and were
sold in the eastern markets under the
name of "Roclzy Fords."
A Kansas woman wears carbon,
two Irish potatoes and four buckeyes
in her stockings and still has rheuma-
tism. This is not the least of her mis-
fortunes; she had occasion recently to
lift her skirt up in going over muddy
crossing, and those who saw the
bumps have started story that she is
deformed.
J.. B. Slower, a well known young
fssmer, residing near Fort Scott, has
disappeared from his home and it is
feared that he has been foully dealt
with or committed suicide. He has
been acting queerly for several months
and his family think he has become
insane and wandered away. He was
% years of age.
Labor Commissioner Johnson is pre-
pairing to secure statistics showing the
cost of criminal trials both in cases of
conviction and acquittal; the cost OF
keeping prisoners in Jail, and will as
certain whether the cost of courts can
not be diminished. Mr.. Johnson hopes
that the result of his work will be ben
eficial to the state.
Army fare is not very much varied.
There is enough of it but it gets pretty
tiresom. The first meal at Leaven-
worth compared favorably with the
average. 1t consisted of stcwed toma-
toes, bacon, bareback and coffee. The
boys thought in the hurry attending
the opening of new camp an impor-
tant matter had been overlooked. The
meat had suspicion of lean in it, and
they confidently asserted that if it had
been noticed it would have been con
demned.
Wyandotte county furnished by far
the most convicts for the penitentiary
of any county in the state during the
two years ending June 80, according tc
the biennial penitentiary report which
has Just been issued. Out of a total OF
753 prisoners on June 80, 1897, Wyan-
dotte furnished seventy-nine, and of a
total of 7s2 on June 80, 1898, seventy
four were from the same county.
Shawnee came second with ffty7one
and ffty-nine, while Sedgwicll was
third with thirty-two and forty-seven.
Harry Lands, warden, doubts il
oovtb;nor WAS oyer done in the Depi