The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1898-09-30

total membership of 1920.
The Kansas colored regiment is hav-
ing a good time at Porto Rico.
Horses around Caldwell are said to
be dying of strange disease.
The famous cowboy band will play
at the Mcpherson fair this fall.
Shifts of men are working night and
day on gas well at Spring Hill.
In western Kansas the other day a
man declined nomination to a county
Office.
Minneapolis has curfew ordinance,
but it don't keep the children home at
night.
convicted by jury Of stealing 90 cents
from boy.
Violators of the prohibltory law are
receiving the extreme penalty in Doug
las county.
Bonner Springs will make an effort
to be incorporated as a city of the
third class.
Many of the Kansas farmers are Wis
iting the Omaha exposition and taking
in the sights.
Major Henry Inman has accepted an
invitation to go to the Paris exposition
with Buffalo Bill.
A farmer in Marion county has just
sold $4,000 worth of cattle-a good
dividend on his stock.
Washington county real estate deal
ers report that the demand for farms
for rent is far greater than the supply.
A new method of evading the pro-
hibitory liquor law is being intro
duced in the western part of the state.
Dan Newbry, Smith county farmer,
lost eighteen rcls of wheat by fire last
week. This comprised his entire crop
this year.
A Dickinson county man has invent
ed and patented whipple tree for a
wagon. 1t is said he will make a for
tune out of it.
Young folks sometimes think they
have good times together, but the gen
timely happy times are found at old
settlers meetings.
A party from Pennsylvania proposes
to put down sixteen wells in Allen
county and pipe the product to Yates
Center and Fort Scott.
The state grain inspection depart
ment is not only self-sustaining but it
has been able to reduce the fees
charged for inspec tion.
The unsightly scaffold which has
married the appearance of the rotunda
of the state house at Topeka for sever
al years is being removed.
1t was jackson county man who
appeared in the office of the paobate
Judge the other day with request for
"pair of marriage licenses"
Thousands of head of hogs are being
fattened just now on Kansas corn to
be put on the market later i'll the sea-
son. Much money is made out of hogs
in this state.
The Jackson county farmer who won
the premium offered by the Holton
Recorder for the longest ear of corn
produced one measuring fourteen and
one half inches.
Last year sixteen experiments were
made at the Kansas agricultural col
lege to test the value of Kafiir corn as
compared with corn for fattening pigs
and to find the best methods of feed
ing Kaffir corn.
It is said that the liquor trouble in
Galena has simply resulted in trans
ferring its sale from the joints to the
drug stores; and the steadies can prob
ably testify that the change has not
resulted in any improvement, so far as
the quality is concerned.
Australian rabbit pelts are being
turned into sealskin garments for
American trade. This looks like work.
ing skin game to limit, but if it
can be done, there is no reason why
Kansas should not jump into the bust
ness with both feet. We have the rob-
bits.
A fraud claiming to be government
agent looking up pension matters is
fleeing the old soldiers of the state.
After getting the victims answers to a
list of questions he has him sign his
name to the statements secured. 1t
afterwards turns up on the business
end of promisory note.
Kansas City is maligning the Kansas
farmers again. A story at Kansas
City is to the effect that the commits