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

OF kansas Tor any purpose.
Shawnee county this week sends a
delegation of eight to swell the num-
Der of inmates in the state peniten-
tiary.
A Marshall county farm wife deliv-
ers weekly in Marytville to contract
customers ninety pounds of butter OF
her own make.
A Catholic fair in bingham cleared
$40. When it comes to a question Of
raising funds the Catholics can beat
the Methodists every jump in the road.
A prairie fire got loose in Hamilton
county the other day and destroyed an
immense amount of range, wheat, and
one thing and another before it burnt
itself out.
Holiday ads. are beginning to bios
som out in the Kansas papers. Old
Santa will do big business in Kansas
this fall if the signs are not all work
ing backwards
DR.. John P. Wood of Coffeyville, who
will be 81 years old on the 4th Of next
January, has been practicing medicine
for "A years, and it is claimed in his
home that he is the oldest practicing
physician in Kansas, and perhaps In
the United States.
Kansas annually contributes a great
deal of money to the various lecture
bureaus throughout the country. Pro-
badly few people have ever stopped to
think how much entertainment OF this
kind there is to be found within the
borders of the state.
The agricultural college has been
awarded the silver medal for the col
lection of grapes exhibited by the hor-
ticultural department at the Omaha
exposition The department placed
handsome collection of fifty varieties
on exhibition in the early part of Sep
TENDER.
Wheelborrow election bets are being
paid now, but they do not attract as
much attention as they once did.
There are so many forms of making
election bets now that unless the terms
provide that the loser shall eat boil
ed crow or raw hop toad, they do not
create much of ruffie.
An election to office sometimes has
queer effect on man. In Gray coun-
ty the other day, the first thing Coun-
ty Attorney Brice did after finding
that he was one of the successful ones
was to hunt up Ellis Garten, editor OF
the Jacksonian, and give him a five
dollar bill on subscription.
A Kansas exchange says that a one
horse farmer is one who comes to town
on Saturday, stays all day, buys rs
cents worth of coffee, a paper of pins,
dollars worth of chewing tobacco
and tank full of whisky. 1t is rea-
sonably safe to say, though, that II
careful watch were kept in Kansas
towns, not many farmers would be
found carrying out this program.
Bale Waggener and several other
Atchison gentlemen have hole in the
ground out at Victor, Colo, and an
other one at Cripple Creek, and the in
dications are that they will get some
good money out of them. 1t would be
no more than justice lor Bale Wag-
gener to get returns from such an en-
terprise, as he has put in his full share
of money in the ground without get
ting returns on it.
The boss of a railroad work train on
the Missouri Pacific has thirty eX-vol-
unteers in his gang, and he says they
are the best workers in the lot. The
explanation is simple. When there is
a Job of digging to be done the boss
charges up and down the line with a
blazing light in his eyes and a pick in
his hand, shouting to the boys that the
Spaniards are coming, and for them to
bestir themselves in throwing up in
trenchments. The result of army drill
is then apparent, for the volunteers
fall to heartily from force of habit,
and fairly fill the air with dirt.
During the summer of 1898 the agri-
cultural college dairy made an inves-
tigation of the patrons of the Meriden
creamery to ascertain the income they
were realizing per COW for milk sold to
the creamery. The poorest herd aver
aged per cow, 1854 annually, and the
best one $40. 90, making a difference Of
$34.55 per cow. Taking the poorest
five herds the average per cow is S9.44,
and for the best five s33.74, a differ
ence of $24. 80 or 257 per cent. Where
records have been kept it has been
found that it takes from $50 to $50 to
pay for keeping cow. 1t will thus
be seen that as far as milk is concern