The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1898-01-07

boree.
Many hogs are now being put on tn,
Kansas markets, notwithstanding tn,
low price.
The poultry shows throu ghout til,
state are just nov attracting the aver
age Kausans eye. They are begin
ming to take great interest in this
matter.
Now that the holidays are past the
Kansas farmer can give his stock much
needed attention and prepare to meet
the cold blast that is predicted for in
January.
Many Kansans have formed very de-
termined resolutions for the New Year
and it is sincerely hoped that these
resolutions will remain unkroken UNI
til another New Year comes happily to
them.
The people Of oklahoma and South
ern Kansas have been threatened with
n coal famine ever since the cold wealth
er set in. In fact, some of the towns
have been out for several days. If n
severe storm should occur closing us
our communication with mines there
I'D ba c., ffari,n.
The Kansas wheat fields would have
looked great deal better if the season
would have had more billiards and
snowstorms, or in other words more
wet, freezing spells. In the year 1896
Kansas people saw more and deeper
SHOWS than for many, many years.
And what was the result? More and
superior qualities of different wheat
than has ever before been grown in
the state.
Frank Weinshenk, chairman of the
Live Stock Sanitary commission, and
Taylor Riddle, of Marion, secretary,
are preparing their annual report
They state that the board will claim
credit for the fact that there were only
two serious outbreaks of fever during
the year. This they say is due to their
stringest enforcement of the quaran-
tine regulations
The fourth annual meeting Of the
Arkansas Valley Farmer and Fruit
Growers association will be held in |
Hutchinson on January 18th and 14th.
Many interesting topics are on the
for discussion. The evening |
sessions are to be treated to fine mu-
steal program. 1t is expected that the
sessions will be even more largely at
than heretofore
Prof Knerr, scientist of Midland
college, visited Doniphan lake, six
niles north of Atchison on the 2Sth of
December. and says there is no doubt
| bout the existence of natural gas
here. 1t is found in pockets under
he ice. By tapping these pockets the
sas which shoots up, can be lighted,
md will burn for minute or two, or
Until the deposit in the pocket is con-
umed. At other places the gas bub-
,les up so rapidly that it prevents ice
rom forming. 1t has always been con-
idered marsh, but Prof Knerr says it
S true natural gas
AS Mrs Samuel Devore was visiting
neighboring family her dress was ig-
Iited from an old fashioned fireplace,
nd before help arrived she was so
,adly burned from head to foot that
he doctors pronounce her case fatal
me. The front of her body and limbs
we're burned almost to crisp. The
)evore family have been unfortunate.
year ago their little boy died sud
emily, supposed to have been bitten
" dog, but the doctor who attended ,
i'm saw no symptoms of hydrophobia
+ anything about the boy to indicate
hat he died from the effects of bite ,
rom dog. The case was mysteri-
us one. The family lives at Beloit.
Wichita is the only town in Kansas
nth burst bank that will pay out I
epositors over one hundred cents on ,
he dollar. !
David Dodson a painter at Fort Scott
as a shining stiletto which he claims t
'as taken from Napoleon after the {
attic of Waterloo 2
f. P, Metzger, department clerk in
will soon be made chief 3
ERIK of the general land office. Metz ,
err is from Greensburg, Kansas, and I
as been is Washington for number of ]
ears. i
c. H. Glazier of Grant county last
eek killed the largest wolf ever seen {
! western Kansas. 1t was grey wolf ,
nd measured seyen feet. |
The First National bank of Linds-
orp is the heaviest iaynaver In Mo- ,