The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1898-04-22

l construction three brick business build
ings, several more will be started 500
5 and over Il dozen residences are bein,
, put up,
. A Kansas farmer says that the pre-
sent is good time to burn all the OLE
grass, stubble, etc, around the fields
as it will prove an Knockout blow t.
the chinch bugs.
In Labette county many oat field'
will be planted to corn. Some pieces
of wheat have been badly damaged by
hail; outlook is bad for oats, garden
truck and peaches
In Lyon county severe frosts nipped
the early peach and apricot buds, but
abundant rains have soaked and pack
ed the ground for the warm winds to
hurry vegetation.
Part of the early sowed oats have
been killed by freezing in Marshall
county, but that sown later seems to
be all right. Wheat is doing fine and
peaches promise fair crop.
Wheat in the eastern division of the
state is in fine condition and coming
well forward, but the cold, wet ground
has materially injured oats sown be-
fore March 20, necessitating much re-
sowing. Pastures are coming out slow
! ly. Some peaches and many apricots
| destroyed; other fruits not injured.
c. Il. Daughters. the well known
Lincoln attorney, is something of a
| farmer himself. At the Lincoln coun-
ty intitute he read "a paper on Thor
oughbred and Scrubs and showed
how there was no excuse for the pro-
gressive farmer to keep his yards lum-
bered up with scrubby cattle. Daugh-
tiers trots in the thoroughbred class.
With the exception of a few good
producers that were shut down for re-
pairs, all the diggings at Galena are
running full time, each one determined
upon raising as much ore as possible.
During the last week the result has
been that nearly 100000 pounds of
zinc ore was put into the various bins,
3,075. 500 of which was sold and ship
ped. The average price paid was So so
per ton for zinc and S21.5 per thou
sand for lead.
In the middle division of Kansas,
wheat injured by March freezing is
recovering rapidly, much of it having
fully recovered Some farmers are
blowing for corn, while others are list
ing it in. Peaches and apricots suffer-
ed severely. in the southern counties
in this division, by the March cold,
other fruits to less extent, while in
the central and northern part but lit
tie damage occurred. Pastures very
backward
7. b. Jennings has issued the first
weather service crop report of the sea-
son. Reports are presented from forty |
counties, and the indications are on
the whole favorable. The freeze in
jured peaches and apricots. but other
fruits are uninjured. Wheat is in per-
feet condition and PROJECTS could not
be better for large crop. Oats have |
not Jared so well, and in many places |
are being plowed up. Corn land is be-
ing plowed in many places
II. NJ. Walt, clothing merchant of |
Newton, who has been in business
there for the past eight or ten years,
offers prize for a copy of "A Newton
paper issued during that time which
does not contain one of his advertise
walked over Harvey county looking
for a job, but now he is reputed to be
one of the wealthiest men of central
Kansas. There are men trying to do
business who will jump up at every
turn of the road and will say that
spent for advertising is wasted.
4 Last week the Ccdarvale creamery
commenced operations, and Lock Lem
ert, who must be a public spirited sort
of fellow, paid $40 for the first pound
of butter that was turned out.
For week farm work has been re-
tarded in Montgomery county by the
wet weather, but blowing is again in
though much of the soil is
too wet yet. The ground froze slight
Iy on April 9th. Peaches are blooming
and promise fair crop; wheat is in
fine condition and oats not seriously
damaged.
Every time some Missouri town gets
to Dragging about its mineral output
Galena sticks up her nose at the angle
of an Easter hat. When it comes to
Galena is the Real Thing.
An old soldier at Logan wants each
in the state to contribute one
pension to buy battleship to
be named the "Kansas Veteran" The
old soldiers patriotiSm is TO he COM