The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1899-07-28
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

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Osborne county wheat is threshinl
out from twelve to fifteen bushels t.
the acre.
Pastures are generally in good con
dition throughout the state and stool
looking fine.
Oklahoma is now shipping apple
and peaches to Kansas, Colorado an'
other nearby states.
The main shaft of the penitentiary
coal mine has been closed. 1t ha
been unsafe for months.
Distributing $500 census jobs il
Kansas is good deal like serving the
first mess of new Strawberries in big
boarding house.
A Barton county farmer put big
mortgage on wheat he had already sold
and then lit out. His wife and sons,
believed to be implicated In the mat
ter, are under arrest
Much fruit is being put up in Kan
sas this season. The early peaches
are very fine for canning purposes and
many are putting up good supply
for winter use. Many berries have
also been putup
Some of the banks of Kansas are so
proud of the statements they can pro-
duce that they run them in the local
papers as displayed advertisements.
These bank statements put up good
talk for Kansas.
There is a good deal of roar in the
southwest on account of the depreda-
tions of cattle thieves. The cattlemen
are beginning to feel woolly about it,
and the offender who is caught at this
work is going to find himself in mess
of trouble of the worst kind.
There is no truth in the old saying
that somnambulists never suffer in
jury while prowling about at night
A Dickinson county woman, walking
about the house in her sleep fell down
fight of stairs and was all bruised
up, although no bones were broken.
The offices of the officials of Mitchell
county are scattered about town in
seven different buildings. The court
house is such an old trap that long
ago the presiding judge refused to
hold court in it, and it ought to be
given over entirely to the bats and
owls
c. II. Strong of Crawford county has
taught % years in that county, besides
holding the office of county superin-
tendent two terms Before coming to
Kansas in '65, Mr. Strong taught eight
schools in Pennsylvania, three in Ohio,
five in Illinois and two in Missouri.
He claims to have taught more schools
in Crawford county than any other
teacher, but he has couple of close
seconds. Mr. Gladson and F. Gun
ningham are credited with 81 and 2O19
years, respectively.
A Jefferson county man who chewed
20 cents worth of tobacco week con-
cluded to try tobacco cure. In two
weeks he ate up ST. worth of cure,
nd fO,. f1,a oyf fxuO xuaalyc ha mead IN
cents worth of candy, cents worth of
peanuts and 5 cents worth of cough
drops per day. During these two
weeks he also consumed two large rub
Der erasers, ate the tips from fourteen
lead pencils, chewed up a dozen pen
holders and browsed off his mustache
as high as he could reach. He now
chews tobacco in the interest of econ
omy.
1t is said that forty-fve counties in
Kansas, nearly half, have no poor
houses, and that in thirty-seven couu-
ties there are no criminal cases on the
docket,
During April, May and June of 1896
the revenue Of the Independence post
Office amounted to 81, 400. Sc; for the
same period of 1897, 81, 62s. 25; for 1898,
$1,739, and for the same quarter of the
present year the figures reached So, $685.
Al. No better testimony could be
brought forth to show the forward
movement of business in that town.
No one has ever seen such corn in
Kansas A whole lot of people think
they have seen bigger corn. They have
simply forgotten.
Implement dealers all over the state
of Kansas are Dragging about their
sales this season. Next fall it will be
possible to see a valuable piece of
farm machinery taking the weather"
in almost every field in the state I'm
plement dealers make great deal of
money out of this careless treatment
of farm machinery which is so noticia-
BILE in Kansas
A prominent citizen of Greenwood
county recently took bull whip and