The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1898-11-11
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Norton will soon have telephone
exchange in operation.
Kingman county will vote on prop
osition to levy tax of one and one
half mills for the purpose of purcnas'
ing and fitting up county poor farm.
A cattleman is authority for the
statement that not drop of liquor is
sold in Long Island; and a cattleman
ought to be considered good authori-
ty.
An election will be held in Wamego
for the purpose of deciding whether
the town will issue bonds to the
amount of 1000 for the purpose OF
putting in a system of waterworks.
So many improvements have been
made by the Rock Island at Phillips
burg that the townfolk are half in
clined to consider them as signs that
1t is destined to be one of the main di-
vision points.
Ewing Herbert has had a particular
ly ron1h streak of luck. He was poi
sored in some manner while in the
woods, and for two weeks has been
confined to his home, almost blind and
deprived of the use of his hands.
A CRATER is working Kansas farmers
On a seed corn racket. He has some
immense ears of corn which he claims
were produced from seed recently dis
covered in Egypt. AS matter of fact
the ears were made up from slices OF
common corn in such a cunning man
ner that it is hard to detect the fraud
without close examination, which is
probably not allowed. He sells his
valuable seed at from 10 to 25 cents a
grain, and at this rate of pay can east
ly afford to devote considerable time
to the manufacture of his bogus grain.
Frank Graves, living in Cherry Creek
township, Cheyenne county, has been
experimenting with growing sugar
bcets this year, and small patch that
he raised made the astonishing yield of
81 tons, 1875 pounds to the acre. He
has sent IA sample of the beets to the
experimental station at Manhattan,
where they will be tested. He has
one beet that weighs fifteen pounds,
but the size preferred for making SUI
gar is from one to two pounds. The
price usually paid is said to be 81. so a
ton. This would soon open up won
derful field for the production of sugar,
where it is universally admitted that
we can raise the finest beets in the
world, and may lead to great results
In the near future.
Every time gold is discovered any
where on earth in any great quantities
there is hurrah and whoop which
Is heard around the globe. Yet not a
great many people in Kansas are IA
miliar with the wealth producing pow
ers of the mining country in the
southeast part of the state. The coun
try around Galena is marvelously rich
In mineral wealth. Of course it is not
shining gold Instead of that it is dull
colored lead and zinc, but they count,
Just the same. Everyone in Kansas
has heard of the wonderful tales from
cripple Creek, and not many months
ago great many Kansans returned
from that town bringing nothing but
tales with them. Few people in the
state, though, know that Bradstreet
classed Galena with Cripple Creek,
stating that they were two of the rich
est towns in the world in proportion
to their size.
There is roar on at Lawrence on
account of the depredations committed
on Halloween night under the name
of ''fun." Too many of the boys seem
unable to distinguish between harm
less pranks and acts of unmigated cuss-
edness.
A photographer who is doing bust
ness in Kansas town asserts that
there are more pretty girls in that
town than any place he ever visited.
There is man who understands the
art of jollying up trade and getting it
started his way.
Fred Saxey, a former resident OF
Doniphan and Osborne counties, now
living at Provo City, Utah, has Just
returned from England, where for the
past two years he has been working in
the interest of the Mormon church.
The boys of the Twentieth were
greatly interested in watching the
movements of whale in the bay near
their camp for several hours one day
recently. 1t was one of the very few
things they have seen in that country
which they were unable to swear
could not be beaten in Kansas.
A Kansas man is travelling around
over the state exhibiting his daughter
THE pirl is but nine wears old anC