The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1898-01-21
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.


roasting the county commissioners for
repsaling the costly rabbit bounty
scheme.
Emma c. Kelly, the Kansas girl who
Is in Klondike, has an escort of TWEEN
ty-two men, and she writes that they
will not let her turn her hand to any
thing.
The city council of Leavenworth has
decided that gates shall be provided
at all railroad crossings in the city,
and the company must furnish day
and night Waterman.
A Topeka poetess says: "Bah! why
all this begging for Cuba. size wants
no the poor beggar's pence" With
these kind instructions the collectors
of aid should quietly pocket all pence,
if any are presented.
Salina grocers feel indignant at the
a ction of the cracker trust in making
another advance in the price of its pro-
ducts. This time the price has been
sent up half cent pound, making the
third increase during the past SIX
months. At present crackers are sell
ing for a cent and half pound more
than they did last summer and the in
crease all goes to the trust The gro
GERS claim that the advance will not
permit them to raise the retail price,
and as result the additional money
which goes into the Golfers of the trust,
comes out of their pockets.
A farm err named Rice, residing about
six miles from Blue Rapids, is having
serious trouble with his stock. He
has 60 head of heifers which he pur-
chased in Colorado, one of which he
noticed at the time was afflicted with
a peculiar disease resembling and eat
ing like q cancer. Since then 40 others
of his herd are affected the same way,
and some of them he thinks are about
to die. People who have seen them
in the feed lots say the stencil arising
from the affected cattle is sickening.
Several cattle men have been there to
see them, but they haven't been able
to locate what the disease Is, and Mr..
Rice has written to Governor Leedy
and the state veterinarian for infor-
nation. This is the only herd of cat
tie in Marshal county affected in this
manner, and efforts are being made to
keep the herd in the feed lots, until
the state veterinarian arrives and re-
ports on the disease.
Jennings d. Judah, farmer living
near Cummings, Atchison county, and
his two daughters, aged is and IA, re-
spectively, were Instantly killed by an
eastbound A. T. & S. 4. train near
Atchison on the evening of January s.
They had been in town trading and
left for home in spring wagon. AS
they approached the Omaha railroad
crossing, just west of the yard limits,
the A. L. & s. f. passenger train came
laundering along. The fagman gave
the warning, but it was too late, and
the engine struck the spring wagon.
There was a crash and the wagon was
knocked into splinters, aud the occu-
pants hurled before the swiftly moving
train. The train stopped, and judah
was found dead on the pilot with his
head crushed. The older girls head
was also crushed and here lifeless body
was found near the track. The train
passed over the younger girl and death
must have been instantaneous. Judah
was So years of age and an extensive
farmer. He had lived in Atchison
county since his boyhood. He leaves
a widow and two children.
1t is really astonishing how many
mortgages have been wiped off of the
records in the state of Kansas during
the past year. Many farmers are hap
py over the results.
Water in some sections of Kansas is
becoming very scarce and if there is
not rainfall soon, it is feared that
there will be suffering among the
stock. Already some of the stockmen
in the northeastern part of the state
have been compelled to pay fifteen
cents tank or three cents barrel for
water.
Big rainfalls are reported pretty gen.
orally over the state, which is greeted
by all classes.
Kansas is thoroughly out Of tune
when the nation is in tune and in tune
when the nation is out of tune. Kan
sas has twisted around politically SC
that properly it belongs to the nation
only in name. For years Kansas how
led hard times, when the rest of the
country was prosperous. Now Kansas
bowls good times but the rest of the
nation is mighty still and may soor
howl hard times.