The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1898-03-04

bus.
A Barton county stock dealer ship
ped a car load of hogs to market las
week.
G There are so many ex-residents o
p Beloit in Chicago that they have formed
club.
, Delphos is talking telephone. Thu
idea seems to be spreading radidly this
year in Kansas.
A Dorcas Society social away out ir
Kearney county cleaned up SIT in one
night last week
The farmers of southern Kansas
have considerable blowing done and
many of them are pushing their spring
work along.
According to the Sentinel there is
more drunkenness on the streets of
Lincoln now than at any time for the
past three years.
Roy Loman, the hot little printer
catcher who played with Atchison last
year, has signed with Fort Worth for
the coming season.
An Emporia dealer averages shipping
a car of eggs week to New York City,
and as in each car there are $780,
eggs, it will be understood that the
helpful hens of Lyons county are not
soldering any.
A Kansas merchant advertises a
plentiful supply of home cured meat
for sale. The ad. mas very refresh
ing sound. There should be more such
goods sold in the state. AS it is now
Kansans raise the meat, ship it to the
killers where it is put in marketable
shape and then re-shipped to the pro-
Queer, who pays freight on it both
ways by the time he purchases it for
consumption.
A Chautauqua county man has the
manuscript and illustrations prepared
for book of poems on various topics,
all relating in a manner to Kansas, and
Kansas Journalist after examining
the production, states with degree of
frankness that it is as unusual as it is
refreshing that the designs are far SUI
perior to the literary features of the
work, although the latter show con
siderable ability"
A Kansas fruit-grower says: Orch
ards will in time exhaust, at least par
tally, the fertility of the SOIL and this
exhaustion is especially noticeable on
soils which are not especially rich at
the time the trees are planted. To
make young trees grow more rapidly,
fertilizar should be used containing a
small per cent of nitrogen mixed with
potash and phosphates. For older
orchards the nitrogen is not so neces-
essary, while phosphates and potash
should be increased, especially the
quantity of potash. 1t is frequently a
good plan to stimulate top growth by
sowing the orchard to crimson clover
in late summer and turning it under
in spring.
A company of forty tramps were
sheltered in the police station at Fort |
Scott recently. When questioned as
to their willingness to volunteer and
fight against Spain, one acted as spo-
kesman for the company, and said
"Pardner, here are forty able bodied !
men who are compelled to ask aid.
Some of them know are worthy, and |
there is not fifty cents among them.
They are hungry and have nothing to
eat. If you think hungry man won't
fight for the protection of our country |
you have the wrong impression. If
our president sees fit to declare,war to-
day, I'll venture to say that every sim
gle one of these unfortunae men will |
be willing and glad to shoulder the |
musket."
D. G. Kay, ex-county clerk of Graham
county, is raising a subscription to
build sod-house at the Omaha expos
ition. If he will only put in a few
centipedes and tarantulars it will seem
mighty home-lil1e to the early settlers
in the short grass county.
Clay Center is to have a new Jail, 1t
will probably be built some 80 or 40
feet to the southeast of the center of |
the court house square, and will consist |
of reidence for the jailer and his fam
lily as we'll as cells for the prisoners
The whole will be under one roof.
Statistics collected by Mr.. Amis, of |
the Kansas department of education,
indicate that the number of male
teachers in the state is decreasing,
while the number of female teachers
is increasing.
John j. ingalls, says we will get war
soon enough without going around |
coaxing it to come up and kick the
stufing out of us, All orators ought