The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1899-01-20

SON Is us satisfactory rs tne grain mar
vest of the past year.
Take the state over and the register
of deeds is the county officer who is
making the money these days.
The Independence Tribune claims
that there is good road overseer in
Montgomery county; so good that he
is now serving his eleventh year in
that capacity.
The three best Convention Hall
prizes were drawn by Kansans. Can
il be possible that more Of these lot
terry tickets were unloaded in Kansas
than in Kansas City?
The same rain that will swell up n
tub will shrink a steer. A paper print
ed out in the cattle district is authori-
ty for the statement that big rain
will sometimes cause a steer to lose
100 pounds.
In Republic county there were %
more marriage licenses issued in 1897
than in 1898. The Scandal Journal
accounts for this by saying that people
were too busy during the past year
thinking of the war to get married,
In compliance with request from
the members of the Anti Horse Thief
association the commissioners of Sum-
ner county have raised the reward Of
fered for the apprehension and convlc-
ton CT horse thieves from S25 to $50.
The town OF Thayer, half wGy be-
tween Cherryvale and Chanute, will
vote on February 14th upon the propo-
sition to issue city bonds to the amount
of three thousand dollars for the pur
pose of installing natural gas plant,
which is to be owned and operated by
the city.
The grip has appeared in another
form. This time it is attacking the
horses, and while it is epidemic in
it threatens to become so
in Saline county. One o. the employees
Of the Clark ranch, near Kipp, says
that the horses on the ranch had be-
come affected. !
The vitrifcd interests of Montgom-
Try county have been consolidated and
will be known of the Coffeyville Wit
Jriticd Brick and Tile company. The
capital stock is eighty thousand dol
ars fully paid up. The plant at indie
oendence, the one at Coffeyville and
he one at Cherryvale will be owned
md operated by the same company
One of the Kansas Creamery patrons
lad two heifer calves in succession
rom an old red COW, one by Hol-
TEN and the other by Short-horn.
n seven days test the Holstein
leifer with her third calf produced .. 3
POUNDS of butter per day. and for the
anne time the Short-horn with her
alf produced 1.2 pounds of butter per
ay; the Holstein giving milk eleven
months of the year and the Short-horn
My five months. This speaks very
as to the value of a good
Ire in raising dairy COWS.
Good things are still coming Iolas
7ay. Work commenced there this
,eek on the biggest enterprise that
as yet been inaugurated in the town
a Portlend cement factory which
ill give steady employment to $50
len, and which will turn out train
Dad of cement daily. 1t will be
ranch of the Michigan Portland &C.
lent company, big concern which
as all kinds of capital back of it. 1t
expected that from two to three
undred men will be employed all
INNER in erecting the buildings for
lie reception of the plant. Natural
as, that great lodestone which has
orked such wonders for Allen county
thin the past two years, was the at
action that drew this new industry
, lola.
The helpful hen is beginning to lay
4 schedule time again, and the mar
ct reports have eggs on the toboggan
ide.
The Ottawa Indians living in the
part of the Cherokee ma
on, have held council and employed
,torneys to look after their interests
Washington this winter About
10, 900 is due the tribe from the Unit
States. An effort also will be made
have the BaldwinS declared intru-
ers and removed from their holdings
the reservation. 4
Clay Center's school board has en-
Dyed a teacher of vocal music for the
ilance of the term. He will give two
ssons a week to the schools and one
the teachers
j. w. Kibley, one of the leading cat
men of Butler county, was at the
college January 5th, to