The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1899-05-19
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEKEsE

This is splendid weather for young
corn.
Merchants are enjoying splendid
trade, and mechanics are generally
busy.
The wheat fields throughout the
state are in prime condition and grow
ing nicely.
If there are no delays it is believed
that the waterworlss plant at Wamego
will be completed by July.
Kansas is to turn herself loose when
the Twentieth returns and many a
man will welcome the heroes of Bag
Bag with jag-jag.
1t is said thai the Great Western
Stove company at Leavenworth will
join stove trust which will be form
ed at Cincinnati this week.
A Jewell county man who labors
under the delusion that the devil stole
his heart and replaced it with one
made of iron was placed in the asylum
last week.
Something must be wrong up in
Oketo township, Marshall county-one
of the best counties in the state. 1t
has population of over zoe, but the
assessor reports but two marriages
during the past year.
A Dickinson county man who manu-
features merry-gorounds has enlarged
his factory and expects soon to have
the largest institution of that kind in
the United States He also makes the
organs which grind out the music
which accompanies the giddy whirl
Miss Pauline Lewelling, daughter OF
Ex-Governor Lewelling, has been
chosen as instructor in English litera-
ture by the trustees of the Sumner
county high school. For the past two
years she has been at the head of that
department in the schools of Arkansas
City.
An Atchison man is in trouble. His
children have passed the measles and
whooping cough age, and just as he
was looking forward to uninterrupted
rest at night, the boys have begun to
hang around. This courtship bust
ness takes a great deal of time, con-
sidiring how often it results in fail
ure. Not SO much time and attention
are put in any other venture.
The season of land work for horses
is we'll begun and will continue on the
majority of farms until the first of
next November Unless this season is
an exception to the rule, the majority
of the horses will begin the years
work in good flesh and spirits, but be-
fore the season is over, thousands of
them will be so poor as to be almost
literally nothing but skin and bones"
and will require winter of high feed
ing to make them able to begin anoth-
err years work. This method of treat
ing horses is ruinous to the horse as
well as expensive to the owner. Horses
so treated are weak at time when
the heaviest work is required of them.
Their bones protrude in such way as
to make it almost impossible to pre-
vent the harness from calling them
and we almost invariably find them
with shoulders covered with collar
boils, with sore backs, and with large
patches of skin rubbed off their hip
and stifle joints Such conditions are
not due SO much to excess of hard
work as they are to lack of the proper
kind and amount of food All animals
require different kinds of food in pro-
portions which vary according to the
conditions under which they are fed.
Company E, of the Twentieth Kan
sas, has had hard work. For one per-
Tod, covering five weeks, not man in
the regiment had his clothes off.
A suggestion has been made by the
Topeka Capital that subscription be
raised to buy handsome sword for
Brigadier General Funston to be pre-
scented to him at the reception which
will be held in Topeka when the
Twentieth Kansas returns. The plan
proposed will no doubt meet with a
hearty response from the citizens of
Kansas.
The Kansas university board of re
gents has completed its work, leaving
three places on the faculty untitled;
those of assistant professorships in
sociology and political economy,
French and forge and foundry work.
peaches are nearly all killed." says
the Sedgwick Paragraph. THE
strawberry crop is short and there is
little prospect for good apple crop.
If anything should happen to the wa
termelons we will probably begin to
hear something about the black mans
burden"