The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1899-04-07
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

board.
At Arkansas City there are 2,4sO
people registered in all; ,474 men and
I,006 women.
Some nice new steel cages have been
put up for the accommodation of those
who go jailward at Cawker.
The real truth about the wheat in
southern Kansas is that about fifty
per cent of it is complete failure, it
is said.
Wells-Fargo Express company will
establish an office at Salina and go af-
ter share of the business which goes
to the Pacific.
Topeka is in great trouble again.
Charlotte Cranes beauty did not cap
ture the War department sufficiently
TO save her lover.
Major Hood sends cattle to Kansas
City which top the market. There's
heap of the genuine brand of satisfac-
ton in that for a man.
A Dickinson county woman last
summer preserved in cans corn on the
cob. She served the corn the other
day and it was excellent.
There is $50 pattern hat on eXhib-
ition in the window of a Fort Scott
milliner which will be some white
mans burden before many days.
The Twentieth Kansas was in the
thick of the fight again, as brave a
regiment as is on the ground. Then
Twentieth is the pride of Kansas.
By the time the assessors who are
working in the country finish their Ia
bors every one of them will be ready
to become an active member of a Good
Roads club
/ Most merchants do their heaviest |
advertising about holiday time, when
people are bound to purchase extern
sively anyhow; and milliners do their
bulk of advertising just prior to Eas-
ter, "a time of year when it would not
be possible to keep women out of their
stores with club,
The county attorney of Wichita
county prints the following notice in ,
the Leoti Standard: The farmers are
warned not to let out any more fires
while burning trash off of their plow-
ed ground. The stocSmen have been
complaining to me regarding their
loss of feed and range, and will use the
law if any more occurs"
TTl1,is is to be good corn year, ac-
N- -...ng to the theory of Gus Rose ana /
other distinguished prophets They
base their prediction on the fact that
the wind was in a northern quarter on
March 81. Had the wind blown from
the south on that day, destruction of
the corn crop of 1899 by hot winds and
drouth would surely follow.
The Lake View school house in
Douglas county, was burned the other
night by tramp who had built fire
to keep warm, and let it get away
from him Farmers living in the
neigh borhood were aroused by the
fire, and at once started in pursuit of
the tramp. He was caught at Fall
Leaf and taken to Lawrence and
placed in Jail. He plead guilty to the
charge of arson, and was bound over
for trial at the May term of the dis
trict court He gave his name of Jas
Morton.
The grass is getting green in south
ern Kansas.
Wheat offerings in the markets have
been small the past week. The farm
ers are holding on to what they have
in stock until something more definite
is known concerning that which is in
the ground.
The Embree incident has started
war against the slot machines at To-
peka.
Erie gas hunters were luckier than
most of the drillers They struck gas
in the first hole sunk.
Kansas farmers have begun blowing
in the southern part of the state. 9th
ers will follow in few days. A big
corn crop will be planted this spring;
larger than usual.
William Freeman, the express mes.
senger, who was killed in the Rock
Island wreck at Volland, had worked
baggage and express for eighteen
years, and during that period he had
lost less than months time. He was
the second messenger to go over the
Rock Island lines west of the Missis-
sippi river
A person can read over Prophet
Hicks predictions for April and pick
out any kind of weather ever known.
Hicks aims to please them all.
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