The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1899-04-07

wheat crop is ruined.
Mound City is discussing the plan OF
voting bonds for the purpose of pros
pecting for natural gas
All the innocent people in the pcni-
Tertiary have not been discovered yet.
Justice is not just, always.
There is an instruction on at Pleas
onton caused by the proposed change
in the location of the postotiice.
Before long it will be possible to
take up tin pan and an old butcher
knife and go out after that mess of
greens.
The Blue Rapids Creamery associa-
ton was organized this week with a
capital of $1,000 Good farmers have
stock in this.
Mr.. Vincent of the state board of
charities has secured places in the var
ious institutions for five citizens of
Washington county.
The Kansas regiment in the Philip
pines wants to be sent home by the
way of the Suez canal, so that they
can say the went round the world.
A Pittsburg firm reports that it has
sold more real estate in the three
months of 1899 than in any eight
months of any previous year; and it is
a firm which has long been established
too.
There is only one time that the Kan
sas editor really drops down and pro-
ceeds to weep pools into the low places
Of the floor, and that is when people
ask him to publish a menu of the re-
at party.
The vigor of Kansas came from its
veterans. There is something about
war which chisels forth the strong
ines of manhood. Nothing, conse-
luently, has gratified Kansas so much
n late years as the Kansas boys gal
ant conduct in the Philippines.
The country editors of northeastern
Kansas are standing back to gaze in
awe on Pool Grinstead. Any Kansas
editor who can get $500 for
lis support" or who even has the
nerve to claim that he did is certainly !
entitled to a great deal of respect in
lis profession,
The Union denies the report to the
Effect that the gas pressure at Hum
ooldt is playing out 1t states that
he greatest trouble with Humboldt |
gas is that it is not used enough. The
upply is sufficient for extensive man
featuring plants, but there is little
Used beyond what is consumed in the
.ity for light and fuel,
The discovery OF natural gas on !
arm three miles west of Manhattan |
,aises the hopes that the natural gas
district" may include the territory of
Saline county. The old theory of the |
state geologiss as to the metes and
pounds of the coal and gas districts
seems to have been exploded recently,
saws Kansas exchange.
The State Board of Education has
decided that under the Grattan bill,
passed by the late legislature, only
the State University is benefited. The
Jaw authorizes the issuing of three
years certificates to the graduates of
certain institutions of learning. Ac-
,ording to the Interpretation put upon
It, only the State University is meant,
but other colleges may come in pro-
vided they submit detailed statement |
IF their courses to the board.
There is a young man in a southern
Kansas town who is being joshed un-
of late. On recent Sun
lay he went to an adjoining city to
visit his girl and reached her home
just as the storks were paying it Wis
It.
A Kansas exchange says that IAN
man, after looking up
he records of the two candidates for
mayor will vote for the opposition
But who ever heard of an
nnpre JUDGED man in Kansas at a time
when an election was pending?
The farmers in north Dickinson
county are having extens1ye losses of
horses, cattle and hogs from an cpl
lemic of hydrophobia, resulting from
several mad dogs Efforts to stop it
have been unavailing.
There is quite an extensive brick
plant just a short distance out of
Atchison which is shut down on &C
count of lack of fuel There is a coal
mine within two rifle shots of the
place, but the condition of the roads
is such that it is impossible to haul
coal to the yard.
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