The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1898-02-18

legislature at the special session; three
in the senate and two in the house.
Z. n. Smith, of Butler county. is in
Washington to present novel claim
against the government Smith was
one Of the 'sooners" who entered Ok
lahoma at its opening. He had secured
fast horse and started to race for his
claim little before the signal for OPP
ening was given officially by the
guards. deputy marshal shot AID
killed his horse and Smith makes claim
for the value of the animal, fixed at
$500.
The Presbyterians are erecting u
church building at Clements, village
of 200 population, between Florence
and Strong City. There is something
more than usual interest in this. Gle
ments is an old town and surrounded
by stone quarries. In the boom days
it had population of more than 300
and for years more than 200. But this
building just being put up is the only
church edifice ever built in the town.
This ia doubtless without parallel in
the state.
1.-The establishment of q club house in
Argentine by the Santa Fe railway
company for its employees is now as
sured Plans for the building have
been decided on and site will be Sc
lected this week. The buildings di-
mentions will be 50XSS feet and two
stories high. The plan is to spend
$40, 900, 81, 900 to be contributed by the
Santa Fe company, and $4,000 by sub
scriptions by the employees. The
basement floor will contain the GYM
nasium apparatus and the baths. The
ground floor will be the reading rooms
and the second floor will have rest
ing room and lecture hall.
In responte to numerous inquiries
upon the subject Professor $. j. Hun
ter of the Department of Entomology
| in the University of Kansas, Lawrence,
has just published a full treatise upon
"Scale Insects Injurious to Orchards
He has given special attention therein
| to the San Jose scale, the most PERM
cious enemy to fruit trees The prog
eny of single female in one season
! amounts to over three billion iDdivid-
uals and, when these scales are once
well spread over an orchard, the only
remedy is to burn the trees To dis
cussions and illustrations are added
the laws enacted in the several states,
thirteen in al, relating to the exter-
mination of the pest This publica-
ton can be procured by sending ad-
dress to the author.
| We noted several weeks ago that the
Kansas Sunflower appeared to have a
great future before it. IT has been
discovered that the seed yielded an oil
that would beat cottonseed oil any day
in the week and that the meal of the
sunfiower seed after the oil had been
taken out made the boss cattle feed.
1t has also been found that the stalk
can be worked up into the finest grade
of paper and that the lining of the
stalk can be worked into drapery that
beats linen or silk. But this isn't all.
1t is now found by careful experiment
that the pith of the suntlower is so
light that by comparison, cork seems
like pig iron. In other words, cork
has a specific gravity more than ten
times as great as the pith of the sun
flower Formerly the life boats were
made with compartments filled with
cork; then it was found that the pith
of the elder stalk was lighter sub
stance than the cork, and now it tran
spires that the pith of the suntiower
beats the elder. The pith of the sun
flower will lift UP at least seven times
as hard as the cork and is exactly the
stuff the life boat people have been
looking for. If some internal sunfow-
err bug doesn't turn up to ruin the
crop, all Kansas man will have to 60
after a while will be to sit around and
let his fields grow up to sunhowcra.
Oberlin sports succeeded In pulling
off finish fight few days ago, much
to the horror of the good folks of that
moral city. .....
There are three Kansans in the Klon-
dixie and they are SO busy writing back
home descriptions of the scenery that
they have no time to dig for the filthy
lucre.
Plenty of rain has fallen in all the
dry districts IN Kansas and everything
is in the best of condition. Wheat is
looking we'll all over :he state and the
Kansans are happy.
From the beautiful weather that has
prevailed since February 2, it is plain
that the grounding is suffering from
the need of a pair of spectacles
The business of the postoffice at
Wellington for the year ending March
81 will restore the Office to second