The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1898-11-25

, ing.
A map fiend worked the good citi
Gems of Reading out of two hundred
dollars.
November 18th was celebrated a.
; Manhattan college rs flower day, ano
II big time they had.
All the trouble is not over yet. There
hire a number of postoffice appoint
nents that have been hung up pend
( ing the result of the election.
The Delaware Indians are holding
a twelve day caucus, seven miles south
of Caney, Kansas. The purpose OF the
Indians is to discuss the immigration
scheme
The Northeastern Kansas Teachers
association will hold its annual meet
ing at Holton on November "a, 25 and
20. Prof. e. Z. Stanley is president OF
the association.
William II. Crawford of Kansas, has
been appointed stenographer at the
Usage Indian agency, Oklahoma. Mr.,
Crawford was member of the twenty.
first Kansas volunteers.
A young man at Manhattan broke
his collar bone while playing football
but did not tumble to the real extent
of his injury for nine days. He only
thought he had lame shoulder.
And now, candidates. hasten to the
front with your sworn statement o.
election expenses. The voters on foo'
are anxious to know what it costs te
go up in victory or down in defeat.
Evidently Kansans are having gooc
time this year. 1t is almost impossible
to pick up local paper printed any
where in this state that does not con
tain notices of entertainments of some
kind.
Streets in Shreveport, Louisiana
are being paved with brick made in
Coffeyville, the product of that town
being selected after rigid tests were
made on samples submitted from many
other states.
The Plainville Journal carries a stick
or so of nonpareil at the head of the
editorial columns telling where the
town is, and giving an idea of the ad.
vantages and possibilities of the coun'
try surrounding it.
In Kearney county Miss Althea
Stoneman and Isaac Bruner were the
opposing candidates for county super
intendent. Each received 141 votes
In casting lots Miss Stonemau got the
Office She was the populist nominee,
Nathan Sheffield, rich cattleman,
was recently found dead beside the
Iron Mountain railroad track about
ten miles south of Coffeyville. The
section hands were going out to work
and discovered the body which had
been cut entirely in two, and loading
it on their hand-car, took it back to
Lenapah.
Ground has been laid off and meas
urements taken for the new Missouri
Pacific roundhouse at Atchison. 1t
| has been decided to build the round
house on the site of the present struc-
ture instead of at Omaha junction. 1t
will be much larger than the present
roundhouse and will have twenty
stalls. several more than the present
structure.
Miss Sarah Bonnell, of Dickinson
county, has had the biggest streak of
luck that has come Kansas way for a
long time. A friend left her fortune
of half a million dollars for the per-
fecting of her musical education. Miss
Bonnell is one of the most talented of
Kansas singers, and her many friends
over the state will note her good for
tune with great pleasure.
NJ. F. Heating of Colbert, has TWEEN
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ty-three acres of wheat infested to a
greater or less extent with wire
worm. They are in sufficient numbers
to make the entire field look pretty
sick. Some of the neighbors' wheat
also has wire worm; how badly it is
not known, but they are there. Gen
orally, if not always, the worm is in
ground which was plowed late. The
theory is generally held that the worm
was in this years stubble and was a
product of the latter part of the sea-
son. Some believe that the worm is
destroyed by quite deep blowing of
stubble land.
Many farmers in the state succeed
but poorly in keeping sweet potatoes
during the winter months. The hor-
ticultural department has in progress
an experiment to determine the most
suitable temperature for keeping this
product during the winter. Trial lots
are stored in locations ranging in tenn
perature from 45 TO rs degrees. The