The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1898-11-18

state.
The heavy frosts are coming earlier
in Kansas this year than usual.
A good paper, the Girard Press, has
just started in on its thirtieth year.
A number of eastern people are look
ing over Kansas with view of loeat-
ing.
The wheat fields throughout the
state are said to be in excellent condi-
ton.
Thousands of tons of baled hay is
being shipped out of Kansas every
week
Advertisers in Sumner county are
getting a great move on themselves
lately.
Some grand improvements are being
made on many of the Kansas farms.
Prosperity is apparent on all sides.
Twenty-eight convicts were taken
from Muskogee this week and will be
landed in the Kansas penitentiary at
Lansing.
GThe Kiowas, Comanches and Apaches
are holding a council to decide wheth-
err they wish their reservation opened
to settlement or not.
The newspapers in this state con-
tain fifty per cent more advertising
than news. This is great sign of
prosperity for the newspaper publish
ers.
A Topeka man who is Juggling some
sort of a lecture or entertainment
around over the state is getting it
stuck into him savagely by the local
papers.
CThe farmers are taking much more
care than usual this year to build
shelter to properly protect their stock
from the approaching winter blasts.
Kansas stock will not want for food
this year.
There are several points throughout
the state where the soldier vote will
decide local contests. What fearful
worry the state would be in now, if
the vote on the state ticket had been
so close that it could have been swung
by the soldier vote.
With most cows the highest yield
for the year can be obtained by having
them go dry six or eight weeks before
calving. This is especially true of
those cows whose milk is rich in butter
fat, and continuous milking of such
cows without rest before calving usu-
ally results in serious lowering of
the yield for the entire year following
calving, and also frequently in a weak,
puny calf.
Few farmers comprehend the feed
ing value of alfalfa, though they may
have grown the plant for years upon
their farms. The digestible nutrients
of any food for either man or beast
consist of fats, carbohydrates and pro-
tein. The fats and carbohydrates are
generally found in excess in the com
mon feed-stuffs produced on the farIn.
Protein, a substance indispensable to
the vital processes of all living beings,
is the scarcest and most expensive con-
stituent of the different feeds. Pro
tein contains nitrogen.
Hutchinson is to have long desired
opera house. The plan is to convert
the upper stories of the Woodman
block into a modern theater. The
building is plenty large enough and is
well located. The building could be
strengthened enough for the purpose,
it is claimed, and room could be ar
ranged that would equal nearly any
opera house in the state. This build
ing has for long time been in litiga-
ton, and it's owners have just succeed
ed in getting clear title to it. They
desire to put it in some shape that will
bring better rent and are now consid-
ering the opera house project.
A stone quarry at Irving ships its
output all over Kansas and to adjoin-
ing states, and has on hand now orders
for between 400 and 500 car loads to be
delivered before the first of next Jan
uary.
r. M. Cook, one of the progressive
boys of Nortonville, has been in the
government printing office at Wash
ington for the past five years. He re-
Gently graduated in the law depart
ment of the Georgetown university,
and will locate in the west for the
practice of law.
The Weslransan, printed out in Wal
lace county, where the country gives
the best kind of a chance for a prairie
fire to cover lot of territory, says
that the fires are destroying big lot
of good winter feed.