The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1898-05-06
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

scattered over une State just now
The measles are said to be spreading
through Kansas with the pace of the
war fever.
Jockey Terrill, who is very hot ar
ticle in racing circles, came from Har
per county.
The old Roman spirit is being re
vived in Kansas. Six state senators
want to 60 to war.
Vleits is to have bank, and as all
the buildings in town are occupied
now, one will be erected for it.
A battery of artillery has been or
ganized in Jewell county with stove
pipes mounted ON corn cultivators.
An old cat that is doing the mother
ly act to little kitten and five young
squirrels is on exhibition in store at
Howard.
In Erie patriot is at work raising a
cavalry, but those who sit in high
places have decreed that the the sol
diers from Kansas must hoof it.
Kansas papers do almost as much
Dragging about the statements of their
local banks this year as they do of the
condition of the wheat fields.
A farmer drove into Jewell City the
other day with fourteen loads of hogs,
and drove home again with fourteen
loads of lumber for big new barn.
Mr.. II. c. Speir, of Chicago, has been
making trip over eastern Oklahoma
relative to investments in municipal
securities. Mr.. Speir was formerly
state superintendent of the state of
Kansas and is one of the heaviest deal
ers in Kansas securities in the market
to-day. He is quite well pleased with
the prosperous appearance of Olllaho-
ma and will increase his holdings of
Oklahoma paper.
A gentleman who has been making
regular trips through Kansas for the
past fifteen years remarked that while
passing through the state recently he
noted wonderful change in the meth
DDS of farming. In the neighborhood
of Emporia he says that in the early
days one could ride for miles through
wheat fields with scarcely a break.
Now almost all of that land is in al
falfa, and the country is full of hogs
and cattle and has much more pros
porous look than formerly.
Rev. Frank Atkin, of Leavenworth
county, has several pictures of various
parts of the battleship Oregon taken
by his son who is on that vessel. The |
Oregon is now somewhere off the coast !
of South America south of Rio Janeiro |
having sailed all the way from San
Francisco to join the Havana blockad-
ing squadron. His last letter stated !
that all on board were eager to avenge
their comrades on the Maine, and it |
may be that they will soon have the
opportunity.
The Meade Globe states for q sol |
emn gospel truth that there are SO
many town cows running loose there
that it is impossible for the honest |
farmer man to get into the city with
load of hay without having half of it
devoured by the critters; and the other
day one of the beasts, either unusually
hungry or unusually curious, started
TO climb into farmers wagon on
foraging expedition. The result was
that the team ran away, smashed
things up ard necessitated an outlay
of several dollars for repairs. The
Globe calls loudly for action in the
matter.
Major Boyd, assistant adjutant gen.
eral, has issued an order for all Kan
sas volunteers to bring with them to
the place of rendezvous quilt or COM
fort, or something of the kind. There
is scarcity of blankets.
Wichita is peculiar town. The coun-
ty has had to bid in a number of town
lots at tax sales. Last year it requir-
ed an effort to keep people from NOV {
ing houses off of them. This year new
trouble is being made. The people
are hauling off the lots for grading
purposes.
The pastor of the English Lutheran
church at Leavenworth travels over
the state six days in the week selling
matches, returning home on the sew
enth to occupy his pulpit. His church
is in debt, and he has taken that meth
cd to lift the burden.
Lieutenant A. S. Rowan, who landed
on Cuba few days ago to open com
munications between the American
army and the insurgents, is practically
q Kansas man. He married the daugh-
ter of A. B. Symns, the well known
wholesale grocer of Atchison.
The check rover is favorite i'm
plement in Wilson county. There