The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1899-05-26

of attention from burglars over the
state.
Evidently the position of superin-
tendent of schools of Galena is con-
sidered prize. There are eight APP
plicants for the place.
Prof. Fellows, of Chicago university
was in Fort Scott few days ago and
inspected the course of study of the
High school, Graduates of the Fort
Scott school are admitted to the uni
versity without any further examina-
tion.
The last number OF the Topeka
Plaindealer, published in the interest
of the negro race was almost entirely
devoted to Paul Lawrence Dunbar; a
man who deserves the praise which
has been so generously given him by
competent critics of two continents.
In a recently published list of the
properties in which the late eXGov-
ernor Flower of New York was inter-
ested, was the Lanyon zinc smelter, in
which his interest was listed at S10,-
600. This is the smelter company
which has large interests at several
Kansas towns.
No wonder Kansns is rapidly COM
ing to the front as a stock country.
Read this item from the Howard Cour-
ant: X. II. Baracl1nan of Union Cen
ter township, Elk county, owns four
year old COW that has had five calves,
four of them being dropped inside the
last eleven months. They are all liv-
ing, and are all fine calves.
The Helpful Hen, the Beef Steer and
His Sister and the Kansas Hog will
please shove along on the bench and
make room for Secretary Coburn's
latest, THE Modern Sheep" a report
of the same nature of those dealing
with the first mentioned subjects, and
which will no doubt receive the same
hearty greeting from those interested,
and prove of value to all who give it
consideration.
Wheat has improved in some of the
counties, while in many it is stunted,
has not stooled, is thin on the ground
and is getting weedy. In the south
ern counties it is in better condition,
and in Cowley is beginning to head
Corn planting is nearing completion.
Corn is coming up in Jewell county
and is being cultivated as far up as
Ottawa. Potatoes are coming up
Grass, oats and barley arc growing
well Fruit prospects are favorable
More rain is needed in the central and
northwestern counties with warmer
nights.
The reports on the strike situation
indicate that there have been no new
accessions to the ranks of the strikers.
w llCICNCl OllC HIlIlCS iltLfC pCSI WI hCNi
by men who belong to the union tie
strike effective, but it seems that
there are not enough union men in the
district, or at least working for the
companies against whom the U. NJ. w.
A. is at war, in the union. Many I'M
ion miners consider the strike i'll
timed and of doubtful issue, and al
though not working, are not trying
very hard to get the non-union men
out.
Occasionally report comes in to
the effect that chinch bug is bobbing
up here and there, in spite OF the rig
orous weather which it was hoped
would lay them low; but the condi-
tions are against them, and it is not
likely that they will be able to do
great damage this season. 1t seems
that about the only thing that will
make a chinch bug give up his tenaci-
Gus hold on life is a dose of Prof,
Shows celebrated knock em-stiff; and
that will do it, if the directions which
accompany the infected bugs are fol-
lowed.
In a Pratt county town the other
day a man, recently from Missouri.
entered a restaurant and sat down.
Presently colored man entered and
sat down. The Missourian arose,
threw the colored man out and was
arrested.
John Bechtel, boy of Is years,
while wolf hunting on the praires of
western Kansas, alighted from his
horse, tying the halter strap to his
wrist. The horse ran away, dragging
him over the rocks, and when found
he was dead.
A Republic county lady found a
chicken with four legs and four wings
in brood Matched out last week.
Public opinion, though not always
an infalible test of the truth, is usu-
ally right, and there can be no reason
n HE doubt that IL indOrSeS advertising