The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1899-06-16
CANsAS ITEMS OF lNTFEEsr

the farmers say.
A Leavenworth man 65 years Old
died of measles last week.
Merchants of all the towns in Brown
county advertise literally.
Topeka has begun its fight for dollar
gas and will also buy the water works.
Ex-Governor Morril shipped 100 fat
steers to Kansas City one day last
week.
The rains during this month is just
what were needed to rush the crops
along.
Six Kansas sheriffs have lost their
lives while making arrests during the
past year.
Preparations are in progress at
Downs for the annual hot time on the
9th of July.
Kansas has lost quite number OF
head of stock as we'll as other proper
ty during the past two weeks Light
ming did it.
1t required 500 worth of glass to
replace that which was destroyed in
one Fort Scott skylight by the recent
hail storm.
An Ellsworth county farmer cashed
in fifteen coyote scalps at the county
clerks office one day last week at a
dollar each.
A good many Kansas papers are
Dragging about the number of new
names they have added to their lists
since the last issue. 1t is good sign.
In southern Kansas no more rain is
needed to mature the wheat. The rains
have been so heavy the wheat would
have rusted had it rot been for the
drying winds.
Governor Stanley has addressed a
letter to Secretary Alger, of the war
department, asking him for cannon
captured in the Spanish war for Wich-
tia. He has also Endorsed the applica-
ton of the Kansas G. A. r. for a can
non captured in the recent war to
make medals for the volunteers in the
Twentieth Kansas.
There is a woman living out in
northwest Kansas who will probably
have rugged time when it comes to
squaring accounts at the final judg-
ment bar. With her husband she is
living on a farm which was decided her
by her father. She afterwards chased
the old man from the place and some
years ago he died at the county poor
farm.
A drum corps with three piccolos,
three snare drums and two bass drums
has been organized at Humboldt A
great many people think that it is
proper to poke fun at organizations of
this kind, but there is nothing that
will cause an old soldier to loosen his
step more quickly or carry himself
more erect than the scream, rattle and
boom of drum corps. A military
band won't touch it when it comes to
this.
]. B. Lynch, live stock agent of the
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe railway
in Colorado and New Mexico, reports
great suffering among cattle in his
territory on account of the drouth.
There has been no rain out there for
twelve months and in consequence
cattlemen are without water on the
ranges. In northern New Mexico cat
tie are dying and stockmen are ship
ping their herds out of the country.
Colorado stockmen also have begun to
ship their stock, the most of them to
Kansas
Postmaster Karr has made applica-
ton to have rural delivery route of
about 25 miles established in Jefferson
county, to run out of Valley Falls.
One of the big men of Missouri is
David Rankin. He is generally spo-
ken of as the "nillionaire farmer.
He raises great crops and feeds many
head of stock. Rankin says that for
him there has always been an eleventh
commandment, which it might be
good policy for the Kansans to add to
the list. Here it is: Thou shalt not
sell corn"
Attorney General Goddard has writ
ten an opinion which will, if followed
by the agricultural college regents,
throw number of professors at the
institution out of their jobs.
The Kansas insurance underwriters
will meet in state convention at Kan
sas City, Kan, June Is. The local
men are making elaborate plans to
entertain their brethren. 1t is said
this meeting will secretly ratify the
schedule of rates now being prepared
to bring about reductions in insurance
rates.
If the committee appointed to To-
cate an asylum and which located it
is declared null and void, a rebellion