The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1898-03-04
KANSAS
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KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The seed stores in Kansas are doini
more business at the present time thai
ever before noted in the history of tn
state at this season of the year.
Last week the Bank OF Beloit ant
the First National bank, two of thu
oldest and firmest institutions of north
west Kansas were consolidated.
Thank beautcous heaven that the
day is gone in Kansas when man car
put a theory at the end of pole, shake
it and scare this state into Mysteries.
The city dads of Irving have put ur
tank and will pipe water to a public
watering trough. Nothing is too good
for the Kansas farmer when he comes
to town this year.
There is a man living in Woodston,
Rocks county, who makes a handsome
thing every year raising ST. Bernard
puppies for sale He has some magni-
ficent dogs of this breed.
The Manhattan lodge of Knights of
Pythias has secured fine new ster-
eopticon, and will hereafter be enabled
70 turn on a few extra side lights for
the benefit of the new candidates.
Since the death of Henry Booth,
General Tim Mccarthy is the only sur
vivor of the old guard left in Pawnee
county. He and Booth ranged there
when Cne grass was shorter than it is
now.
The general watch inspector for the
Santa Fe railroad, has issued his first
annual report. He says that Santa Fe
trainmen have better watches than
the men on any other road in the conn
try.
Workmen in a southern Kansas town
in repairing water pipe dug up a sec
tion of the first water main laid in the
city, eighteen years ago. 1t consisted
of round cedar post bored out and
bound with strap iron.
A Hiawatha man goes out to the
graveyard on the 4th of July and shoots
fire-crackers over his wife's grave in
order to prove his loyalty He is look
ing for another wife to encourage him
in his declining years.
A fellow down at Clement, who
claims to be able to mesmerize animals
is laying foundation for fortune
He is teaching chorus of cats to sing.
He claims that they can already carry
a number of tunes. OF course, they
cannot articulate the words, but they
give the tune. If they attain the
proficiency the mesmerizer anticipates,
he will travel and give cat concerts.
Who would not give dollar to hear
dozen musical tom cats sing: IA Hot
Time in the Old TOWN."
Extensive trials of kaffir corn in the
West and especially in Kensas, have
proved it to be valuable substitute
for corn, and it is worthy of more at
tention than it is receiving. 1t is nom
saccharine, the plant grows low and
erect, and the whole stock cures into
good fodder. In some cases, when fed
green, it has made cattle sick, but this
is doubtful mainly due to the overfeed-
ing of it. In using the seed for food
it should be ground, and especially if
fed to poultry. 1t seems to be relished
by horses, cows, hogs and poultry, and
the ground seed has, in some localities,
takes the place of other grains. In
other localities the cured fodder takes
the place of hay and is fed with good
results.
The officers stationed at Fort Leav.
enworth are said to be almost unanim-
Ously in favor of war, reports to the
contrary notwithstanding.
The Graphic warns the wife heaters
of Osawatomie that unless they let up
they will be given an opportunity of
finding out how wet the water Is in the
river there. There is one man there to
whom the warning does not apply. He
went home with good sized jag few
nights ago and tried to clean up the
mouse, when his wife laid him out with
a stove poker.
Emma Kelly, the Kansas girl who
married rich in Klondike, sent her
father in Kansas $500 for a Christmas
present.
A deputy sheriff of Cowley county
went to Dexter few days ago to ar
rest a horse thief and got so drunk
that he was arrested and locked up in
Jail. Moo
All the Rocks county teachers in at
tendance at the, State Normal school
are Christians, and every Saturday
night they hold a rousing PRAYER meet
ing.
Fred Gaunt, an Alton grain dealer,
shipped over ten thousand bushels of
wheat last week During the same
period he also sold thirty thousand