The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1899-08-04

A.A oAS hoW ocB INNING w W ho"h
from.
From here and there in Kansas com,
ured 80 bushels to the acre; not many
though.
The wounded Kansas soldiers are in
San Francisco, on their way home
They will be given grand reception
when they arrive.
The difference between the corr
crop of this year and of 1889 is that
the farmers this year have granaries
in which to store it.
1t is estimated by some toiling stat
istician that it will take railroad
train 1, 900 miles long to haul out Kan
sas' corn crop this fall.
The Dickinson county child who
swallowed glass of kerosene by mis-
take is not likely to be troubled with
mosquitoes for the remainder of the
season.
State Senator R. T. Andrews of Par
dee has adopted four children from
the Soldiers Orphan home-two boys
and two girls, and he says lie wants a
few more.
The state house grounds at Topeka
have been made to blossom like the
rose, and the inside of the capitol
looks good deal less like junk shop
than it used to.
The Leavenworth woman who ask
ed the court to grant her separation
from her husband and to restore to
her the name of Costing must have
been very unhappy.
Bob Ingersoll may be having an ex-
perience with extreme temperature,
but it is nothing compared to the man
who one of these days is compelled to
ride ten miles between two hedge rows
on country road in Kansas.
A Kansas soldier by way of illus
trating the civilizing influences that
are at work in Manila, says that when
the city surrendered to the Americans
there was not a saloon on the main
street of the city, but that five months
later he counted 1872.
The Independence brick plant is now
giving employment, directly and in
directly, to about one hundred men in
working at the plant and getting out
the shale at Table Mound. Work will
commence in few days on another
permanent up-draft kiln with capac-
ity of $50, 900 brick. This will be the
third kiln of this kind.
Miami county reports some enormous
Yields of fax. One farmer in Stanton
reports fourteen bushels per acre
threshed. Another threshed 160 bush
els from ten acres; others are getting
ten and twelve bushels. The crop is
the heaviest known and the acreage
the largest. Local dealers are offer
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prepared to hold for higher prices
Near Admire and Allen many hogs
are dying and it is thought they
are suffering with fever, but to the
southwark six or seven miles the dis
ease is pronounced hog cholera, and is
increasing rapidly. Several farmers,
not understanding the disease, in
stead of burying the animals, have
carted them to ravines or woods and
left them. Other hogs carried the
disease from place to place, scattering
it in hog yards over large territory.
Cheap Rates to Pacific Coast via Santa Fe.
The Santa Fe are selling tickets to
San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego
and other California points at the very
cheap rate OF S32.5
To Portland and points in Idaho and
Oregon $2s.s5 For particulars call
on or address, L. r. DELANEY, Agt,
Wichita, Kans,
The rainy season seems to have in
terfered with the congressional hostil-
tiles in the First Kansas district.
State Treasurer Grimes has issued
call for the state warrants outstanding
and marked mot paid for want of
funds" There are about 5000, 600 of
them held by outstanding parties and
the treasurer now proposes to take
them up. He has enough money to do
it. He will not have to go to stamp
ing warrants again until about Octo-
Der. There is certain to be defcien-
cy by that time, however.
The corn crop IN Kansas this year
will compel the farmers to exchange
their cabinet organs for Steinway
pianos.
The county treasurer of Rice county
was caught by surprise party of 100
friends the other night, with his shoes
off and with his bare feet in the re-
frigerator.
II has haen discovered that IL of the