The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1899-07-21

Nearly every town in central Kan
sas is going to have street fair this
fall.
The papers over the state are begin
ming to have stories about enormous
wheat yields.
One Crawford county man has put
up more than four hundred tons OF
hay this season.
Sumner county has surplus in its
treasury and is investing the money
in township bonds.
1t is estimated that the recent wreck
on the Salina & Oakley branch will
cost the Union Pacific $4,000.
A druggist in western Kansas adj
vertises that his soda water makes
those who drink it feel patriotic.
In the history of Kansas the state
has had no year when the oats crop
equaled that of the present season.
A northern Kansas insurance con-
Germ wants to insure farmers against
drought, floods, army worms and
chinch bugs.
| Talk about there not being jobs
enough for the laboring men. south
ern Kansas train was delayed two
hours on account of the high weeds on
the track.
A man is touring Kansas with ken
etiscope pictures of the Jeffries-Fitz-
simmons prize fight He is drawing
large crowds A Kansas man likes
either to see or be in good fight most
any old time.
The first week Of the Republic coun-
ty institute closed with an enrolment
of $50. While the majority of those in
attendance are inexperienced teachers,
a larger number than ever before are
those not preparing for examination
at all.
Continued rains have made the pros
poets for corn in Republic county and
throughout the Republican valley the
best it has been for the last twenty
years. Work is progressing on the j.
w. Pinney elevator in Scandal, which
was burned downed early in the
spring. This elevator will have a ca
pacity to handle about 10000 bushels
daily.
In order to determine how much
water the herd of thirteen calves at
the Kansas agricultural college would
drink, the water given them for a
week was weighed, and put in a barrel
with an attachment for letting it out
as fast as needed. In the seven days
the thirteen calves drank S6S pounds
of water, or an average of eight lbs
day. The weather during this time
was warm for the first three days and
cooler the last four days. In addition
to the water, the calves got an aver.
age of IA pounds of slSimmilk besides
grain and hay. This experiment shows
that calves need water in addition to
their milk ration; it also shows that
they like it often and not so much at
a time. Always see that it is fresh
and clean.
A suit has been filed in the district
court of Shawnee county by Kate
Ehrlich against the Santa Fe, which
involves only a small amount of mon
ey, but is of great interest to grain
men as 1t involves the liability of rail-
roads for shortages on grain ship
ments- The plaintiff claims to have
shipped 666 bushels of wheat over the
Santa Fe from Lehigh, in Marion
county, to Topeka, but when the
grain arrived there was only 575 bush
els. The railroad is sued for the
value of the difference. The question
of shortages in grain and responsible !
ity for them is one that has been
much discussed by grain men and is
considered at every grain mems meet
ing. For that reason suits involving
the question will be watched with in
terest by them.
A woman in southern Kansas has |
five boys, each bearing the name of a
different man, each of whom has been |
her husband.
The distance between Upton and |
Hunter, in Mitchell county, is only |
seven miles, but a letter mailed at |
Upton has to travel 200 miles to get |
to Hunter
The Doniphan county orchards are
among the most extensive and fruitful |
in the state. Buffalo" Jones brought |
and planted the first orchard trees
into that locality.
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.
Those young ladies who have form
ed a society whose members are pledg-