The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1899-04-28

ties, held at HUTCHINSON, hanSdS, Aprl
24-3O; one fare for the round trip.
Tickets on sale April 24-97, good to re-
turn on and including May 1st
l.. r. DELANEY, Agent
Only s1.41. Only Sid! Only s1.41.
Kansas Musical Jubilee, Kansas
State Sunday School Association,
Hutchinson, Kans. For these events
the Santa Fe will sell tickets to Hutch
inson and return for one fare-$1. Al
for the round trip Tickets on sale
May 8, 10 and May 10 and 10. Good to
return until May IL and May 20, 1899.
l.. r. DELANEY, Agent.
Excursion to San Francisco, Cal, via the
Great Santa Fe Route.
On May Is, 16, II and IS the Santa
Fe will sell tickets to San Francisco
and return on account of the National
Baptist Societies meetings at the rate
of one fare for the round trip-S60. 90
limited for return to July 18th, 1899
The Santa Fe's California service is
unsurpassed, having two trains daily
from Wichita, leaving $3.50 a. m. and
ITO D. m. /. R. DELANEY, Agt
Homeseekers Excursion via Santa Fe
Route.
For this occasion on May I'd and 16,
and June 9th and Goth, the Santa Fe
will sell round trip tickets at the very
cheap rate of one fare for the round
trip plus So. 90 to all points in Arkan-
sas, Arizona Indian territory and New
Mexico. These tickets will bear going
limit with stopover privileges of fifteen
days; final return limit twenty-one
days from date of sale. Before pur-
chasing tickets you will do we'll to cal
on some representative of the road
reaches all points Of importance-The
Great Santa Fe.
L. R. DELANEY, Agt.
The wheat report shows that for the
state, the proportion sown, which from
the severe winter, long protracted de-
lay of spring and other causes, now
seems failure and likely to be plow'
ed up or devoted to other crops, is &c
per cent. The conditions of the re-
mainder, or about 3,515,2 16 acres, is 6s
per cent, 100 per cent being considered
perfect. The area sown for 1899 was
about per cent greater than that for
1898. The report says: While on the
whole conditions might be more IA
vorable, they could be now, and have
been in other years, decided worse and
there is no occasion at this date for
fearing that Kansas will not in the
aggregate have large output of win
ter wheat.
Every once in a while in reading the
papers of Kansas one sees an account
of the work done by some threshiDg
outfit that is still grinding along. 1t
is almost time to begin to get the ma
chinery in readiness for the coming
harvest.
1t is the deep wisdom of experience
which leads Kansas to keep her mouth
smut about crop prospects For good
many years Kansas cut monkey shines
for the amusement of the nation and
entirely forgot that she was injuring
herself.
If the Kansas Wesleyan at Salina
succeeds in raising $50, 900 it will bring
them a gift of clean hundred thou.
sand dollars; and the members of the
feculty believe that it can be done.
Present conditions are favorable for
tasks of this nature.
Even if Erie does not get gas in the
quantity desired it is ahead of where
it stood before the drilling commenced.
In sinking the second well the drill
went through As feet of potter's clay
which the driller says is as fine as any
he ever worked in.
Spearville, Il little town out in Ford
county, now has newspaper; the
News, by Geo. NJ. Kerr.
Phillips county farmers say that
wheat and other small grain is in ex-
cellent condition. f. NJ. Baker, the
Atchison grain man, says that the
damage to wheat in northern Kansas
will amount to about 25 per cent, but
there is little or no damage west OF
Beloit Mr.. Coborn will be along soon
with data on this subject that will be
more valuable than any testimony
which has yet been given.