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

by Kansas railroad men.
Autograph fiends have taken to cut
ting chips from the walls of the Jail at
Atchison.
Pawnee county farmers are engag-
ing harvest hands already and paying
them dollar a day to wait till harvest
begins.
So far every town in Kansas that has
employed teachers for the coming year
has increased the salaries and added to
the number employed.
Just nineteen years ago John Royce
struck northwest Kansas, and he says
that country never had finer prospects
for good crops than right now.
During the month of May, real estate
mortgages to the amount of $3l, l22
were Cancelled in Washington county;
S14,142 in excess of new mortgages
filed.
Fifteen Leavenworth prisoners have
been put on bread and water until
they disclose the information as TO
where they got the tools to dig out
with recently.
The Esliridge Star remarks that just
at present the best known bottle on
Garth is the one at Santiago de Cuba
and that no other one has nastier
mixture corked up in it.
1t cost lady living in Hope just
10 to find out that the ordinance
prohibiting CHICKENS from running at
large in that town was no joke. She
is now living in despair
Speaking of thrift, it is said that
there is young man in Kensington
who will ask young lady to accom-
pany him for ride and then allow
her to paw the rent of the wheel she
uses.
Lebanon. one of the rustling towns
of Smith county, recently raised $500
for the purpose of purchasing a base
ball ground and placing it in shape for
use. There must be lots of money in
Smith county when small town like
Lebanon can raise sum like that for
such purpose.
An Atchison county farmer gives the
Muscotah Record the following report
concerning the chinch bugs; They're
all right. The rain has not drowned
them out, nor the cold snap frozen
them to death. They will be found at
tending strictly to business when the
proper time comes"
1t has been figured out that last year
Sumner county raised more wheat than
all six of the New England States,
Delaware. North and South Carolina
and Florida combined and that the
crop of the state was larger by mil
lion bushels than that of New England,
New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania,
Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North
and South Carolina, Georgia and Flor
ida. As a wheat producer Kansas is
entitled to considerable respect
Warden Lands of the penitentiary
has filed notice with Governor Barnes,
of Oklahoma, that prisoners from the
territory will not be kept at his lnsti-
tuition in the future unless higher
rate is paid far caring for them. The
present rate is % cents per day and
there are 40 Oklahoma prisoners.
For this compensation the convicts are
to be fed, clothed and cared for. Mr..
Lands says that the state is losing
money on the deal. The increase de-
manded will probably be given.
The Kansas City Times says: "The
present war will be a source of great
contention among the future historians
of Kansas. There will be men among
them who will insist that the major OF
the Twenty-frst was son of old John
Brown of Osawatomie and will dig up
the sword presented to him by the
asylum employees of that town to prove
it. 1t will be contended that Harvey
county was named after the first lieu
tenant-governor in the state, who pre-
ferred being a patriot to being an
officeholder; that Little river was
named after the Northumberland ol
the Twentieth, and Graham county
was named after the lieutenant-colonel
of the Twenty-second.
The Irving Leader says: People
who usually patronize the peddler'
should remember that goods peddlet
by the average peddler are made to sci
and not for service and durability, but
cheap in quality and therefore expen
sive at any figure" A great truth. Thu
peddler is after the profit he can ge
out of the first and only sale he eve
expects to make to one customer. HI
does not expect, as rule, to cover tn
same ground twice. He can make NOR