The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1898-06-10

Farmers living near Arkansas City
say it is next to impossible to get har-
vest hands to take care of the wheat
crop. They are willing to pay good
prices, but it is hard to get men at any
price.
From reports made by the township
assessors of Pawnee county fled with
the county clerk an increase of 300 in
the population is shown. The increase
in population is credited to the great
wheat crop of last year.
The Kansas farmers are arranging
just as fast as they can for the coming
harvest. Every man who wants work
from now until the threshing season
is over, can get it and good wages with
it. The threshing will continue until
winter.
Miss Elsie Reasoner, an Osborne
girl, is getting favorable comment
from the press on account of the work
she is furnishing daily papers and
magazines concerning the Omaha ex-
position.
Damage suits for an aggregate OF
$65, 500 have been removed to the fed
eral courts from the court of common
pleas of Wyandotte county on request
of the defense. j. A. Ketchum, who
brings one of the suits asks for $50, 900
damages He was caught between two
cars on the company's Kansas river
bridge. Susan j. Bates sues for $780,,
900 damages for the death of her hus-
band, who died from injuries received
in collision between buggy in
which he was riding and street car
on the bridge A third suit is for $685.
500. 1t is brought by Benjamin Me
man who was knocked from the track
of the elevated road in Kansas City,
Kansas, by cart pushed by fellow
workman.
General Superintendent Nudge, of
the Santa Fe has just returned from
an inspection of the lines in Kansas.
He says that the state will raise the
largest wheat crop this year in its his
! tory He estimates the crop at from
81, 900, 900 to 100, 900, 900 bushels. Upon
his return he gave the car service de-
partment orders to rush its work and
get as many freight cars in shape to
haul the grain as fast as possible.
Last year large amount of grain
went to the Gulf ports" said he, "but
l look for almost all of it to go to the
eastern seaboard this year. Export
dealers will not want to risk large
cargoes of grain on the Gulf of Mexico
while the Spanish fleet is in the neigh
borhood. Should our fleet destroy the
Spanish feet and run all the Spanish
vessels out of the Gulf, then, of course,
it would be safe to ship stuff that way
and it probably would be done, but
until the exporters are positive that all
danger is past they will do their ship
ping lIOu UliC CdSICIA ScdDOdlb.
Some people refer to the big sums
that many of the Kansas farmers are
receiving for last years wheat just as
though they were finding the money
or ''getting it from home" But tt
takes work to get all this coin; hard
work. The man who plows the land,
trudging his weary way from one end
fields knows this. He finds it out
again when he follows the harrow;
and there are lots funnier things than
acting as chief engineer of a grain
drill. Then sometimes, in the western
portions of the state the ungentle
rephyrs come zephing along, ripping
up the top two inches of the farmers
domain and scattering the seed he has
so carefully planted along the high
county. This means rcplanting, and
it makes farmer as grouchy to have
to replant field as it does a woman to
re-lnit a stocking that the baby has
raveled out, or printer to reset
galley of type pied by careless cub.
Then comes an anxious interval when
the farmer hopes and prays that his
growing grain will be successful in
lodging hail, hot winds and rust. And
then harvest. The only really pleas
ant thing about harvest time is sleep
ing at night after the days work is
done. Threshing caps the climax. 1t
is hard, hot, swift and dirty work, and
every one on the farm is glad when it
is over, especially the women who have
to get up the grub for the hands. A
threshing crew can out-eat any aggre-
CATION of workers ever assembled, not
| barring the roustabouts of a wagon
show. 1t is work, worry and work,
from the time the ground is prepared
until the grain is in the bin but when
the farmer loads up string of wagons
and hauls lot to town, selling it for