The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1899-08-25
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

events to I'LL more than a column OF
solid type in the Topeka Capital.
The state superintendent of public
instruction in Kansas actually had to
be taught how to carry his new baby
without dropping it.
A sensitive woman in Jackson coun-
~ horsewhipped a man who com
planned of the way she was running a
farm which she rented to him.
After a charge near San Fernando
the Kansas boys returned to camp to
find that all their surplus clothing
and blankets had been stolen from
them.
The Kansas grapes are now coming
on the market in wagon-load lots, and
they are getting cheap, too. They
are of an extra fine quality this sea-
son.
Engineers all over Kansas are pick
ing from corn fields extraordinarily
large ears of corn and tying them at
the side of the locomotive headlight.
Ears of corn are so high up on the
stalks this year that, in spite Of the
bountiful yield, it may not be possible
for the boys to lower the corn-picking
record to amount TO anything,
In addition to all of the other COM
plants that have been lodged against
the state house at Topeka, it is now
charged that young men and young
women meet there to carry on firta-
tions in violation of social ethics.
At Coffeyville the construction of
the new flour warehouse of the Nc
Grew Milling company connects the
mill building proper with the cooper
shop building and makes one solid
brick building 304 feet long and so
feet wide.
Knights of Pythias who belong to
the Thirty-second, now stationed at
Leavenworth, have formed an organi-
cation, the object of which is to carry
out the principles of the order wher-
ever they may be thrown. There are
a large number of Pythians in the reg
iment.
A number of Cheyenne Indians are
dancing their way through Kansas on
the road to Omaha where they will
hop about for the amusements of the
crowds at the exposition. 1t must
make an old buck Indian who has par
ticipated in the real thing terribly
sick at heart to witness, or take part,
in these walk.arounds at so much per-
There is a long-haired doctor work.
ing in western Kansas, who, if able to
perform one-half the wonderful cures
he says he can, would be living in
luxurious quarters in New York City,
with squad of police on duty before
his door for the purpose of keeping
back the hordes who would flock to
him from all over the country to be
made sound again.
A Jewell county farmer says: II
have lived in Jewell county for thirty
wears, and ! never saw such corn
crop in all those years as we have at
present. Heretofore when we walked
off with the corn banner, we have had
from 10 to 20 per cent of the county
badly damaged This year there is
not quarter section in the county but
what is in fine shape. Jewell county
will raise from $500, 900 to Is, 5000
bushels this year, which is 500 bushels
for each inhabitant, or S120 for each
man, woman and child in the county
at Is cents per bushel. The county
that takes the banner from us this
year will be Joe Dandy"
The application which has been
made for the pardon of man who is
in ja at Mankato for stealing two
bottles of beer from a jointist ought
to be granted. If he drank the beer
he has been punished enough.
While serving as a juror during the
January term of court a Hamilton
county man was placed in a room
without fire. He caught cold, an
abscess formed back of the right ear,
and compete loss of hearing resulted.
As a result the sheriff has damage
suit on his hands.
A Topeka attorney has inherited the
entire estate of one of his clients,
amounting to $780, OO The legatee is
In double luck, for he will not have to
hire lawyer to defend the will
against the relatives of the testator.
The county commissioners at Fort
Scott have ruled that there is no pro-
vision of law that the county shall
turn fees growing out of the prosecu-
ton of the violations of the liquor
law, into the county. The county at
torney at Fort Scott has collected
81 900 in fees which he will keep
The school teachers in this state are
feeling good. Their salaries have been