The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1899-07-14

hurVeSU ndnuS are sulu 10 De eAceeV
ingly scarce in western Kansas thi
year.
A monument has been erected owe
the grave of Frank Everest in tn
cemetery at Atchison.
Harvey county shows an increase il
personal property slightly in excess
of 500, 900 over last year.
The attention of the Home Mission
airy society should be called to the con
dition of things at Leavenworth.
Doniphan county is great on or
chards. 1t was Buffalo Jones who
brought the first orchard trees into
that locality.
The alfalfa crop is good this year.
Most of the first crop has been cut
and the second crop is coming on with
fiattering prospects,
A Leavenworth paper relates that
"two ladies" were arrested for drunk
enness and disturbing the peace in
the Klondike district.
Negroes are being shipped into the
eastern Kansas mining districts in
carload lots The miners threaten
trouble if they are allowed TO work.
An assay of the feelings of the aver
age man on the 5th day of July will
show more heartfelt regret to the
thought than on any other day of the
year.
Secretary Coburn of the state agri.
cultural society, knew what he was
doing when he refused to become the
president of the state agricultural
school.
Doniphan and Leavenworth are not
the only apple growing counties on
the map. One man in Sumner county
expects to get 1000 bushels from his
orchard this fall.
At meeting of the Fit Scott school
board the other day it was voted to
give a dozen of the teachers a per
cent increase in salary. Seven JAM
tors also received an increase
Billy Edwards is genuine Kansas
boomer, and he will never get over it.
He is now predicting that an unprece-
dented number of immigrants will
come to Kansas this fall to settle.
This speaks well for the farmers in
the vicinity of Bern: Three lightning
rod agents lowered around there for
couple of days, and then shook the
place, unable to get in their graft.
The miners who were imported from
the eastern part of the state to Ward
ner, Idaho, to take the place of the
strikers at that point, have written
their friends urging them not to come
there, as they say they are herded like
sheep by the mine owners and despiscd
by all the citizens
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 $50. so.
To Portland and points in Idaho and
Oregon $2S.S5 For particulars call
on or address, l.. r. DELANEY, Agt.,
Wichita, Kans
Judge Hook, sitting in federal court
at Leavenworth, has ordered GOO acres
Of land, lying in the northern part of
Lyon county, in which the Cross es-
tate has half interest, to be sold and
The proceeds turned over to the estate.
The land is good only for grazing and |
IN offer of S. an acre has been made |
FOR it. An offer of $4,000 has been
made for another so acres, and that |
also was ordered sold. In addition to
,hese orders, Judge Hook also order
I'd the sale of 141 shares of stock in
he Kansas and Missouri Coal and |
Land company, which was a part of |
he estate. The orders were made on
petition of Morton Albaugh, as re-
.eiver of the Cross bank.
There is not great deal of noise
,eing made about the lead and zinc
mines at Pleasanton, but work on sew
raj more shafts is being steadily
pushed, and indications are such that
t is believed that some rich strikes
will be made.
1t is easy to see how it was that
Iouston, Texas, was named as the
lext place of meeting of the Trans
Congress. One of the push
rs from Houston, a representative OF
he board of trade, was formerly a
eal estate hustler in Kansas.
The 12-foot cornstalk has appeared.
The 12-foot cornstalk don't stand any
more chance of making an enduring
core than the man who tells the first
ish story. 1t will soon be outclass-
d.
Oppressed heads of families in Erie