The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1899-01-13

A smallpox expert who is working
in Atchison gets Sl5 day for his SER
vices. He is from Chicago.
The womsa of Wichita have organ
lied a twentieth Century club, " and
none of them are more than half thai
old.
A vast amount of ice has been put
up in Kansas during the past winter
Very few ice houses will be empty
next spring.
There has been less suffering among
stock this winter than ever before in
the history of the state and yet it has
been a cold winter.
The wheat fields throughout Kansas
are looking fine and are growing every
day. The numerous rains this winter
has filled the ground with ample mois'
ture.
Governor Stanley will not be able tc
announce his appointments as soon as
he expected, but there is no reason &c
think that he is holding back on ac'
count of inability to get men to take
the places.
A special from Waverly, Kans., says
The general store of c. f, Parmerly
and the postoffice at Sharpe were rob-
bed Tuesday night of twenty-sever
dollars in stamps and some money arc
merchandise. Entrance was gained by
fercing the front door. 1t is supposed
the work was done by home talent.
On January 5th, Greenleaf & Baker
Atchison grain dealers, shipped to Bal
timore a car containing 1,750 bushels
of corn. 1t is the largest car ever ship
ped from the west, the average cal
containing five hundred bushels A
big car of corn which Denton Bros, OF
Leavenworth shipped recently to st.
Louis contained sixteen hundred bush
els.
The receiver of the defunct First
National bank at Humboldt sold the
remaining assets of the bank at auc-
ton. Seventy-fve thousand dollars
worth of notes, judgments and over
drafts sold for little less than thou
sand dollars; but Notwithstanding this
tremendous shrinkage, the receiver OF
the bank will pay its depositors ninety
cents on the dollar.
The Goodland Banner secured state
ments from the merchants of that town
and found that the total amount OF
sales during holiday week aggregated
81 1855. Of this amount $S,670 went
for Christmas presents. This is an in
dication of the wonderful amount OF
business done by Santa Claus and his
assistants in Kansas this year. Good
land, it should be remembered, is away
out in northwestern Kansas. People
who wanted to be mean used to say
that there was no God out Goodland
way: and it was there that RainmakeI
Montgomery, with his scheme of over
turning natures laws, rose, flourished
and fell; but the town and country
about it appear to be all right in this
particular year of grace.
No person who has an orchard ought
to be so greedy as to think that he can
successfully raise a crop of apples and
a crop of hogs in the same field. Hogs
may be good thing to keep down the
weeds in an orchard but they will
also keep down the crop of apples as
well. No stock of any kind should be
kept in an orchard. The weeds should
be kept down by the use of mower
and the disc harrow and after the trees
come into bearing the ground should
be kept well seeded to clean red clover.
Stock of any kind, hogs, sheep, cattle
or horses will tread the ground hard
and cause it to dry out, and this will
rob the feeding rootlets of the trees Oh
the necessary moisture and nourish-
ment and keep the trees from bearing
crops of fruit.
Norton's telephone exchange is now
in operation.
The fame of the Santa Fe eating
houses and dining car service has beer
heralded all over the country and
those who travel say that no such
meals can be had as are served by the
Santa Fe Mr.. Fred Harvey is mana.
ger of the eating houses and the dining
cars and to him and his liberal ideas
belongs the credit of the meals that
cause even a New York diner out or a
Boston epicure to pronounce them par
excellence
An organizer got forty-eight charter
members for new fraternal order at
Lyndon. When it comes to rounding
up humanity to finish the procession
al lodge organizer doesn't take back
seat for anyone.
The Criterion says that a Lebanon
man is deferred from putting up ice