The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1899-06-02
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST

nlng prices.
Geneseo is crying loudly for cream
cry and Touring mill.
Many of the Kansas farmers are put
ting in big crop of broom corn this
year.
Ellis county is beginning building a
system of iron bridges. Two contracts
will be awarded June 6. Creeks and
rivers will be bridged to facilitate
hauling the wheat crop
Over $500 worth of stock has been
subscribed by the merchants and
farmers for creamery at Plainville,
and work will be commenced at once
on the erection of the plant.
From present indication this will be
q prosperous year for Kansas. Good
prospects for a big crop of everything
that is planted, and demand for all
classes of mechanics and laboring men
at good wages.
Since Governor Stanley has learned
that the unanimous desire of all Kan
sans is to have the Twentieth Kansas
volunteers mustered out at home he
has changed his plan, which was to
wait until he heard from the Kansas
boys on the subject before acting, and
he is now heartily against any move
to muster the Twentieth Kansas out
at San Francisco.
On May 20 another splendid rain fell
throughout Sheridan county, doing
great good to wheat, which is gener-
ally good, but backward on account of
the cold weather. The prospects now
are that Sheridan county will raise a
good wheat crop. Corn planting is
progressing favorably, and large
acreage is being put in. The general
crop prospects are better than for sew
eral years, while the acreage is fully
as large as the biggest years in the
history of the county.
Occasionally e report comes in to
the effect that a chinch bug is bobbing
up here and there, in spite of the rig
orous weather which it was hoped
would lay them low; but the condi-
tions are against them, and it is not
likely that they will be able to do
great damage this season. 1t seems
that about the only thing that will
make chinch bug give up his tenaci-
GUS hold on life is a dose of Prof.
Shows celebrated knock 'em-stiff; and
that will do it, if the directions which
accompany the infected bugs are fol-
lowed.
In the Colby land district, compris-
ing all that section of northwest Kan
sas in the confines of the country eX-
tending east from the Colorado line,
206 miles and 60 miles north and south,
there are yet $4,000 acres of vacant
lands subject to homestead entry and
reservoir fling. The greater portion
of these vacant lands lie in the west
half of the district. This land is good
for agriculture and grazing. There
are about 1900 in quarter sections
and the remainder is in 40 and so acre
tracts. Under the homestead entry
law a residence of five years is re-
quired, unless after a residence of IA
months the person can have it by pay
ing SIPS an acre. In the past year
about 5000 acres were taken up, and
If it keeps up at this ratio the bulk of
it will be taken up in the next two
years.
The May crop of cherries will soon
be on the market now. They generally
ripen the latter part of May, but as
the season is late this year, they will
be week or ten days behind their
usual time.
Passenger officials are already con-
sidering the question of special rates
for July 4. 1t is anticipated that this
year the celebrations will be unusual
ly numerous and upon q much grander
scale than for many seasons, for the
spirit of patriotism has been aroused
by the late war with Spain.
A Beattie man owns the right kind
of hen. She ''stole her nest" away
in the hay NOW, laid % eggs and
Matched % chicks.
Barton county has been visited by
good soaking rain which was badly
needed While considerable wheat is
past redemption, with favorable wealth
er from now on, there will be half
crop. Considerable corn has been
planted, which is thus far in good con-
dition. 1t is reported that the north
west part of the county was struck by
a hail storm, doing some damage.
The alfalfa crop is reported to be
very heavy in Kansas this year. Some
of the farmers over the state have al
ready harvested their first crop and