The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1898-05-20


One regiment of the Kansas volun-
teers, it is thought, will get to go to
the Philippines.
The Kansas papers now announce
that editors eat flour and that wheat
is plenty high enough.
Hot weather is coming and the edict
has gone forth in Osborne that all hogs
shall be removed from the city. A
good scheme.
The rain-makers in Kansas became
disheartened and discouraged last year,
aud this year kind, but obstinate ma
ture is letting it rain.
The bright skies of western Kansas
are not wholly without their dark
spots. Five dry goods peddlers are
canvassing in Sheridan county.
The public school system at lola is
forty years old-older by one more
year than the town, for a log cabin
school preceded the location of the
city.
There is more etiquette on the bench
in Kansas than anywhere else. None
of the judges in Kansas smoke while
on the bench and very few of them
permit smoking in the court room dur
ing sessions.
Kansas oats, while yet very back
ward, have shown a fair growth dur
ing the week, but the cool, cloudy
weather has thus far prevented it from
making even normal growth. This
crop is reported fair to good only in
the southern section.
They are happy lot at Lindsborg.
The mortgage on Bethany college has
been lifted, the $4,000 being paid off
this week. Professor Swenson and
his assistants deserve a whole lot of
credit for the hustling they have done
to accomplish this, as do the public
spirited parties who contributed to the
amount.
The wheat over Kansas continues to
improve and if looking well. Many
fields are jointing, and from every sec
ton the stand is reported generally
good. The late rains have kept the
crops growing nicely, the cloudy days
and cool nights, too, have been favora-
BILE, and the prospect for large yield
is excellent.
Corn, generally, shows good stand,
it being cultivated the second time in
the southern part of the state,
and for the first time elsewhere. The
cool, cloudy, windy weather has not
been favorable to the corn, and it has
an unhealthy and stunted appearance.
More sunshine and warmth are requir-
ed for this crop.
Insurance companies, it is said, will
not place more than 81 900 worth of
hail insurance on one section, and in
some cases farmers are unable to get
insurance on their fields because that
amount of risk is already being carried
on the same section. This sounds fun
ny, when companies will insure
every one of block of building.
The little town of Cunningham, in
the western part of Kingman county,
is greatly excited over a case of horse
whipping that occurred there. The
principals in the affair are both wom-
en-, the victim being the postmistress
of the town, Miss Etfie A. Smith, while
the woman who administered the
horsewhipping is the wife of the towns
only doctor and druggist, G. d. LETTERS.
The i'll feeling existing between the
two ladies for some time has been
greatly intensified lately by stories of
busybodies, and while the postmistress
was passing the drug store, Mrs. JEFF
fers stepped out, caught her by the
hair and commenced using heavy
horsewhip vigorously. DR.. LETTERS
stood by and when parties attempted
to interfere warned them not to do so.
Warrants have been issued for the ar
rest of both the doctor and his wife.
A man at lola made speech the
other night in which he said that at
Manila every time the Spanish gun
ners shot at Dewey's ship great phan-
tom arose upon the water and stopped
the ball. OF course it was the Maine.
That brand of patriotism which
leads man to leave his wife and fam
lily in destitute circumstances that he
may enlist and go to the front is not
the pure quill. 1t has been done in a
few instances. Uncle Sam is not so hard
pushed for fighting material as all
that comes to.
Rain is not the only thing that falls
alike on the just and the unjust. The
United Presbyterian church at Topeka
was last week entirely destroyed by
Phillipsburg did the right thing by
her soldier boys when they left for
Topeka. A collection was taken up