The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1898-09-23

There are IA, 800 bachelors and 44,469
old maids in Kansas.
The farmers in Harvey county are
sowing more wheat this year than last
season.
Attorney General Boyle has return
ed from Colorado much improved in
health.
Since the depot at Garnett was burn
ed, box cars are being utilized for that
purpose.
The Hawaiian girl, who will reigr
at Topeka, will aslo be entertained al
Hutchinson.
Corn is raised in Reno county, the
ears ranging from twelve to fifteen
inches long.
The school directors at Abilene urge
the children to be careful about con-
tagious diseases.
One thousand dollars worth of decor
alive goods were stolen from the Kar-
nival knights at Topeka.
Miss Rose, the Topeka queen from
Hilo, was never out of her native coun-
try until she comes to Kansas. Miss
Rose is making good start.
The people of Canton, Kan, who re-
GENTLY combined and drove colored
people from the city, have, through
the same Inauguration, inaugurated q
crusade against the saloonkeepers of
the city with the result that every one
of them has been compelled to make
hasty escape from the town to avoid
violence.
The broom corn raisers in McPher-
son county have just finished cutting
their corn and are selling it as rapidly
as possible. The price received is from
$50 to $55 per ton. The corn il not
very good this year and there is not
over half a crop of it, owing to the bad
effects of the hot weather, which
ripened it too quick and which could
not be taken care of rapidly enough.
Wheat drills are said to be running
on every quarter section in Dickinson
and adjoining counties The farmers
are putting in the largest wheat crop
in their history. The late rains have
put the ground in excellent condition
and the farmers are hurrying to make
the fields complete. The change of
seed wheat that was made as an eXper-
iment last year proved a grand sue
cess and many more are getting seed
that has not before been used in these
counties. 1t has been many years since
there has been so favorable seeding
time.
Inquiries are pouring in upon State
Superintendent Stryker asking if pu-
pills above five years of age can be eX-
cluded from school by school boards.
The school age in Kansas is five years.
In 1876 the Legislature passed law to
the effect that, ''for the time being"
in the event of lack of school room,
school boards might exclude pupils up
to seven years of age. Mr.. Stryker
holds that the ''time being" has pass
ed, and that all pupils above five years
must be admitted to school upon de-
mand of parents.
The inscription on the John A. Mar
| tin monument, to be erected from the
contributions of Kansas people in Mt
Vernon cemetery at Atchison, will be
as follows: In memory of soldier and
statesman John A. Martin. Born in
Brownsville, Pa, March 10, 1889. Died
at Atchison, Kan, October 2, 1889.
Colonel of the Eight Kansas Volun-
teers. Editor of the Atchison Cham
pion from 1853 to 1885, Governor of
! Kansas from 1885 to 1889. To COM
memorate his public and private vir-
tues his friends have erected this mon
ument,
The signs point to the retention OF
the Twentieth Kansas in the service
for long time. Recently number
of the privates in the Sixth and Sew
enth California regiments, which are
to be mustered out, applied for per.
mission to transfer to the Kansas reg
iment. The adjutant general at Wash.
lngton replied that the transfers would
not be allowed, as needed recruits in
the regiments which were to be retain.
ed in the service would be taken from
the states from which the regiment
came"
Unless many Kansas school teachers
mend their way, they may find them
selves in Jail instead of in the school.
room. They persist in the violation OF
the new textbook law, for which
severe penalty is attached. The state
supreme court has rendered an opinion,
holding that the law of 1897 providing
for state uniformity of textbook is