The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1899-04-21

Fort Scott voted down proposition
TO issue S., 900 worth of bonds to pros
pect for gas.
Chief Justice Doster's family have
tired of Topeka and will move back to
Marion county.
Coffeyville gained APO inhabitants
the past year. Most of the Kansas
towns are reporting increases
In Mcpherson county the net de-
crease of mortgage Indebtedness for
the month of March amounted to $685.
600.
An epidemic of home buying is
sweeping over the state, judging from
the testimony of the many local pa
pers.
The county superintendent of the
state will hold their annual meeting
at Hutchinson this year during Mus
zeal Jubilee week.
1t is hardly likely that it would be
possible to trade shares in the Trego
county gold mines for stock in the
lead mines of Linn county.
As a rule, the Kansas towns treated
the colored boys on their return home
better than they did the boys of the
Twenty-frst and Twenty-second regi-
ments
A. c. Jellison, a Wilson man, made a
trip into the country the other day for
the purpose of investigating the con-
dition of winter wheat, and says that
he believes in that vicinity not over
25 per cent of the crop is killed. Will
son is in Ellsworth county, which an
nually produces crop of winter
wheat closely approaching the two
million bushel mark.
The wife of an Everest man stood
trouble until her patience gave way
and then swore out warrants against
the iointists who had been selling Ii
quor to her husband. Two of them
were arrested, but third managed to
get out of town. The lady proposes
to make it particularly warm for the
iointists, and will have the good wish
es of a lot of sympathetic friends.
Massachusetts will this year spend
$17O,o fighting the Gypsy moth, and
yet there are plenty of people in Mass
achusetts who are sorry for anybody
who lives in Kansas because they have
so many grasshoppers out there And
there are young men and women in
Kansas who know nothing at all of a
raid or measures to sup
press the pests except what they have
learned from hearing the pioneers
talk.
There is at least one Kansan who is
lining his pockets nicely in the Klon-
dixie country, aud if he only knows
enough to let we'll enough alone he
will be enabled to come back home
well fixed. Mike Walters, formerly of
Norton, writes Postmaster Lockard as
follows concerning the young fellow
in questions: DO you remember Sam
Bonnifeld, the gambler who was in
Norton in 1sS5-a young fellow? He
has all kinds of money here He is
worth 100000 He won $40, 900 from
one man here"
Success never follows ignorance or
slip shod methods. There is cream
ery up OF Beloit with branches in sew
eral different counties that is making
money hand over fist. Half dozen
men went down in the effort to main
tain a creamery at that point; lost
money right and left. But one day
couple of young Danes, the Jensen
brothers, came along and took up the
work where others had made such dis
nal failures. They succeeded. There
was no "lucl<" in it at all. They sim
ply understood their business. They
knew how to ''to things"
Since his breakup, life insurance of
Grant Gilletts to the amount to $780,
900 has been cancelled.
Sumner county, which raised 4,2Os,-
1874 bushels of winter wheat in 1898
produced in the same season 40 bush
els of spring wheat. The heaviest
producing spring wheat counties are
in the northwest, and Sherman was
the banner county last year with
production of 2O3, O67 bushels to her
credit. In 1897 Decatur led with 1885,
$50 bushels, according to the report of
Coburn.
The Axtell Anchor says: "Who ever
heard of ripe tomatoes being grown
in Kansas at this time of year? We
may be accused of trying to swell the
contributions of the Consolidated Ex-
pansion and Fabrication club, but
Mayor Hughes brought to this Office
on Wednesday morning a nice, lucious
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