The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1899-05-05

The wheat fields in Kansas are look
ing mighty fine, with fattering pros
pects
At the last count eight Rocks county
men had their eyes on the nomination
for sheriff.
Kansas, especially the eastern part,
is becoming known as an extensive
mining district.
Secretary Coburn thinks there vii
be three-fourths of wheat crop,
which isn't so bad.
Mound Valley, down in Labette
county, has voted bonds to the amount
of SO, 900 and will prospect for oil, gas
or coal.
Fort Scott has received large ship
ment of sugar beet seeds and prize
will be given to the farmer who raises
the best beets.
Mr. Kyzzanouski farms out in Phil
lips county. A farmer with name
like that is perfectly independent OF
these new-fangled, patent corn cut
tiers.
The colonel, the lieutenant colonel
a ma or, three captains and four lieu
tenants of the only Kansas regiment
that saw any fighting are State Uni
versity men.
A Minnesota insurance company
which wanted to do business in Kan
sas, claiming to insure against chinch-
bugs, drouth and hot winds, has been
barred from the state.
The executive council, it is said, has
decided to abolish the office of state
architect and divide his salary among
newly created places for architects,
one at each state institution.
The Mormon missionary who was
working Gaylord recently evidently
didn't jar matters much. The Meth
odists intend to go right ahead with
the work of constructing their new
church
On April 27 the quartermaster at
Fort Riley was notified that 1000
mules would be shipped to that place
to be grazed this summer on the big
reservation there. The reservation
contains nearly 20, 900 acres.
Originally we crossed the prairies as
of old, the pilgrims crossed the sea, to
make the west, as they the east the
homestead of the free Now Kansas is
crossing another sea to make the east
as they have the west the homestead
of the free. We are nearly around the
world.
For some time two ranchmen on the
Medicine river, in Pratt county, have
been losing cattle and in order to find
the reason, bored small holes in the
hoofs of some of their cattle. Last
week two of these were found bearing
the brand of another cattleman who
has ranch in that neighborhood.
Prof L. !. Blake, head of the cleo
trical engineering department of Kan
sas university, has returned from
trip to Champaign, ILL.,, where the
University of Illinois is located. While
away Prof Blake was formally offered
the place of head of the electrical en-
cheering department. He has not
accepted the place, but was given only
a short time in which to give his an
swer.
At Beloit recently the school board
offered prize of $40 to the person
who would present by the fast of May
the best landscape plat for identifying
the grounds. There will probably be
numerous responses, but the people
who really know how to do such work
will show up after the completion of
the plan and begin to criticise and
show how it should have been proper
Iy done. 1t is so much easier to criti-
else the work of others than to exc
quite plan yourself.
Cherryvale is striking gait with
which larger places should keep pace
The streets are to be paved. Vitrifed
brick, homemade, and as good as those
that can be found anywhere, will be
used.
Imaginative stories concerning Fred
Funston are the order of the day now.
The actual experiences of this noted
Kansan have been so varied and eXcit-
ing that there is no excuse for using
the embellishments of the liar in at
to trim up the story OF his
life.
Many of the Kansas towns are on
boom. Substantial buildings
are going up and everything indicates
A photographer is taking a number
of copies of pictures in the possession
OF the State Historical society to be
used in the forthcoming school library