The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1898-06-24
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.


cd the season at Paola.
Blind Boone is getting rich off OF
Kansas. He has been working the
state for three months.
1t would be interesting to know at
what ancient day the feud between the
weather and Kansas began.
A Kansas farmer wants to know
what has become of the theory that
lister bitches caused drouth?
An Emporia produce firm has pur-
chased nearly fifty thousand dollars
worth of poultry since March.
E. R. Ridgely has been re-nominated
by the populists for congressman from
the third congressional district.
The Salina city council has donated
$500 to assist in properly celebrating
The Fourth of July at that place.
An Ellis county Russian hired farm
hand for harvesting season the other
day agreeing to pay him 81 day.
E. N. Morrill, appeared before the
Brown county board of equalization
the other day with kick. He want
cd his assessment raised.
Joseph Letter may not be Napo-
leon, but he is philantropist He
lost money that the Kansas farmer
might get higher price for his wheat.
There is most worthy movement
being made by the ladies of Emporia
to form an organization to make and
collect supplies for the hospitals OF the
Kansas regiments in the field.
The contracts for the erection of a
new Santa Fe round house at Winfield
have all been let to the Cherryvale
construction company. EXcavating
began June 18th and construction will
follow at once.
Burglars blew open safe of firm
of implement dealers at Norton the
past week and secured handsome ad-
dition to their share of wealth. Two
years ago they would have found a
bundle of notes.
The efforts of a man to do business
without advertising have been com
pared to almost every vain attempt on
Garth, but the Muscotah Record man
strikes it about right when he says it
reminds him of an armless man trying
10 make love.
Distilled trouble lit on George Vail,
farmer living five miles south of Gay
lord a few days ago. He had 35 head
of cattle killed by lightning. They
were lying in bunch, and from APP
pearances it was evident that they had
all been killed at the same time.
C. E. Hudson, of Willis little town
in Brown county, has invented corn
shucker which is said to promise good
results. He is trying to interest CAPT
tai in his scheme. If he has ma
chine that will do this work properly
be will never have to work any more.
Kansas farmers will make so much
money this year that they will all be
enabled to build sheds to shelter their
farm machinery. Thousands of dollars
are wasted annually in this state on
account of the farmers having no suit
able place to store their new machin-
cry.
Drillers for the ottawa natural gas
development company recently struck
a stratum of sand 42S feet below the
surface and gas came pouring out, A
lighted match was applied to the es-
Gaping gas and flame shot upinto the
air several feet The well is located
Just north of Forest Park.
Some of the wheat fields in the state
are infected with wheat is called the
wheat head worm" According to
Chancellor Snow of the University, it
is an insect which lives in the ground
in the day time and at night gets in
its destroying work, that of eating the
tender grain before maturity. There
are two kinds, one of which eats the
leaves of the wheat stock. and the 9TH
err the grain. 1t is reported that a lew
fields in Douglas county are affected.
At Anthony the mayor and council
had an unofficial meeting and have de-
cided to abate if possible the tramp
nuisance. Every tramp in town was
given the option of going to work on
the streets at 1871 cents per hour or
moving on. Some of the local laborers
who have not had plenty of work this
spring are commenting unfavorably on
the emergency order of the council and
claim that the tramps arr being ac-
corded privileges that were not offered
TO them recently when they were out
of work
Secretary Coburn says that Kansas
farmers should not get wheat crazy.
They should utilize all of the possible