The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1899-08-11
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

season.
More than half of the enlistments
in the regular army at Fort Leaver'
worth are from Missouri
IT assessors returns are reliable
only three persons in Haskell county
are owners of gold watches.
The gold fields at Trego in this state
are declared to be fake. Chemists
say there is no gold in the shale. II
this if true lots OF Topeka people have
been worked for good-sized chunks Of
coin.
Corn stalks are being used for tele-
graph poles in some parts of Oklahoma.
1t is said that they are superior to the
old poles, as the projecting leaves do
away with the necessity of using
climbers.
The most valuable single service the
Kansas newspapers do is their constant
attempt to educate the people of their
communities to beware of peddlers and
fakirs and buy only of reputable mer-
chants
Ed Learned, of Cowley county, sold
his farm for $4,000 and has taken the
hard, bright, tickle cash to Arizona
with him to prospect for gold. Some
body should chain him up and appoint
guardian.
There never was yearin Oklahoma
committees. This is shown by the
rapidity with which funds for street
fairs, carnivals and fall festivals are
up in various towns throughout the
Oklahoma
A herd of $50 cattle from Clarendon,
Tex, have been quarautined on the
Holmes ranch at Clements, Kan, on
the advice of the state sanitary board
on the claim that "Texas fever" has
been found among them. These are
the first Texas fever cases found in
Kansas this year.
Merchants at Council Grove have
raised the price, and hereafter the
band will give weekly concerts. Many
Kansas towns have taken similar &C
tions this summer; more than ever be-
fore in the history Of the state. 1t is
a good scheme and one that is bound
to grow. 1t is getting rather late to
foil INT TO-. l., hut VI
spring every town in the state should
take steps to secure public concerts.
The annual old soldiers reunion at
Washington, Kansas, will be held
August 80, 81 and September !, 1899.
Elaborate preparations are being made
to have big time. Many prominent
speakers, camp fires every night, plen-
ty of tents, free wood, straw and wa
ter, ample accommodations for all.
Old soldiers and sailors of every war,
and everybody else are cordially in
vited.
Three-fourths of the entire acreage
Of corn planted in Lincoln county this
year will yield very heavy crop In
some favored locations the corn will
be immense, and nowhere will there
be less than good paying crop. Pro-
fuse rains during the past few days
insure the maturity of every stock
and ear, and has started fall blowing.
In the Pleasant Vale church, nine
miles southeast of Lincoln, there is
cornstalk cut green which measures
III feet in length, nine feet to the
first ear, eleven feet to the second and
two ears above that yet. 1t was
grown by John Pitcher, in the open
field, without any special attention
whatever.
A soldiers monument will be erect
ed in the park at Hiawatha. A gun Il
feet long, weighing $500 pounds, will
be mounted upon it.
In Dickinson county last week the
county commissioners passed a resolu-
tion instructing the county treasurer
W Ouy III ali boANo AOi VIC
county under the law. Several years
ego the county followed this plan I'M
der the old law but gave it up as too
expensive 1t is believed that it will
save the county money under the new
regime.
Flush is the name of new postof-
fee which has been established in Pot
tawatomie county.
Somebody in the clouds is playing
with Kansas Last week things look
ed dangerous The screws of hot
weather began to creep down on Kan
sas. Kansas never squeaked. 1t look
ed like the corn was gone sure if it
didn't rain. Not a soul croaked.
Something in the sky saw that Kansas
was going to stand the thing without
protest, pulled the lid and let it rain
like thunder
Farmers in western Kansas have a