The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1898-06-17
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

ment in Manila.
There ought to be law empowering
farmers to impress tramps into their
services during harvest time.
Allen county made gain in popula-
ton of 1,4s4 during the past year, OF
which lola claims to have contributed
1886.
The Wellington people have decided
to celebrate the Fourth by taking a
drive through the country to watch
the harvest hands.
Not a single prominent Kansan went
to this war as private. If there is
any aristocracy in Kansas it is an ar
istocracy of politicians.
1t is better for a man to be able to
occasionally ship car load of steers
which top the market than to carry
in his pocket the vote of his ward.
State Mine Inspector McGrath's late
annual report commend the mining
law passed by the last Legislature but
insinuates that it is mighty good
thing to repeal.
The Fairview Courier says that cit
izen of that town fishes around the
corn cribs for rats with hook and
line, and sells the hind quarters of the
rodents for frog legs.
A school teacher in Dickinson county
has been criticised for holding Decora-
ton day exercises in the school house.
It would be interesting to know who
did the criticising, and why.
The Bank of Commerce at Wichita
has capital of $685. and deposits
amounting to S347,OOo Under the law
the bank is allowed to loan only $125,-
600. The other 1925, ZOO is idle money.
During the past week most of the
Kansas farmers have been busy plow-
ing their corn. The continued wet
weather has given the weeds a good
start and much labor will be required
to kill them.
For the first time in sixteen years
the editor of the Hays Republican says
that he has not heard of a chinch bug,
grasshopper, cut worm or any other
insect Fostering the growing wheat In
his section of the state.
Perie Decker, the elocutionist, has
raised a company at Concordia which
is waiting for chance to get muster
ed in. The girls of the town did not
take kindly to his scheme and some OF
them were in favor of running him of
the town site for inducing SO many
young fellows to sign the company
roll.
A Woodson county school teacher
who plays the fiddle has been opening
the school house once week through
the winter and giving the ncighbor'
hood free dance. The church people
went to the county attorney who said
he couldn't do anything. An appeal
was taken to the state superintendent
who Endorsed the county attorneys
opinion and the dance goes on.
The Lebanon Criterian says: '1n the
civil war the healthiest and toughest
soldiers were those who lived on army
rations, while the great majority OF
those who died of intestinal disease
were livers on suffers canned stuff.
AS the army rations are well fitted for
toughening the men who live on them,
without injury to the digestive organs
the sooner one becomes habituated to
them the better.
Gen. ]. X. Hudson has received in
formation from the war department
to the effect that his staff officers will
all be appointed for him from the reg
ular army, and that he will be per
mitted to name none of them except
two lieutenants, who will be detailed
as aides. Aside from these aides he
has four staff officers. They are an as
sistant acknowledgement, a quarter
master, commissary of subsistence
and brigade surgeon. They are al
named by the president and have the
rank of captains.
To say that in general, and its coun
ty scat, Washington in particular
is at the present time on the boom
would be telling the truth in a mil'
way. With ten buildings for bushes
purposes being built around the squar
end many residences going up all owe
the city, the old timers think of tn
boom days when every laboring maj
had work at good wages, and every
body was building or contemplating
building Ten business rooms ar
now being built, all of which are @
brick or stone and when finished Wi
greatly improve the appearance of tn
square.
As a summer resort Kansas is not
narticularlv hot number. but the raj