The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1899-05-12
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST

Wheat field are looking mighty fipe
throughout the state of Kansas just
now.
Fort Scott is having more trouble
with water and waterworks than most
towns have with their joints and joint
liquor.
Jim Legate of Leavenworth, who is
is 70 years old, is writing book OF
personal recollections and will call 1t
Thirty Years Out of Congress" A
lot of the old fellows will leave the
STATE when it appears until it blows
over.
The heaviest rain of the season fell
in Saline county last week and was ac-
companied by lightning, thunder and
hail. The water fell several inches
deep in the roads. The downpour,
which was general throughout the
county will be very beneficial to the
wheat crop.
Il. II. Wentworth, an Atchison Chris
tian Scientist, who was doomed by the
newspapers few years ago as rival
of Schlatter, the healer died. last week
of old age. He was s4 years old, and
had lived in that section nearly fifty
years. He was a freighter on the
western plains in the early days, and
his wagon train was looted and burn
ed by the Indians. He presented a
claim to the government but was new
err eimbursed.
On May 2 the state textbood commits
sion received bids from the various
textbook concerns to furnish the state
primary and high school books for
period of five years The contract will
be awarded in few days. All of the
concerns reported to have been in
combination to get the contracts have
disclaimed being in the deal. How
ever, certain school book agent
claims to have absolute knowledge
that such deal was make He be-
lieves the combine will be broken
soon.
The war department is unable TO
even approximate the date when the
twentieth Kansas volunteers may be
able to start home from the Philip
pines. All details relating to the
movements of volunteers are in the
hands of General Otis, and while it is
known that the Kansans will come
back in the order of their going, the
time when they start must be fixed by
the military government of the Philip
pines. 1t has been decided that it
will not be possible to bring the Kan
sans home by way of the Suez canal,
as all the transports now at Manila
are urgently needed for use in the Pa
cific between San Francisco and the
Philippines.
H. d. Russell, an expert grammar,
of Chicago, who has been making a
tour of the wheat belt of Kansas for
the purpose of placing an estimate on
the probable yield of that grain this
year for the benefit of Chicago grain
men, says that the wheat crop of Kan
Eas will be much larger than estimat-
ed. 1.-THE condition of the growing
crop since it was reported by Secretary
Coburn two weeks ago, has greatly i'm
proved, and believe there will be at
least SO, 900, 600 bushels of wheat rails
ed in the the state this year." said Mr..
Russell. 1.-THE alarming reports sent
out bp persons who merely guessed at
conditions as to the damage were great
ly exaggerated. Kansas should certain
ly feel happy over the outlook. She
will raise much wheat this year, if
present conditions continue, as she
ever did, barring two years"
A Brown county man cashed in eight
young wolves the other day at dollar
PER scalp, and has set trap for the
old ones. This looks like a case of
killing the goose that lays the golden
egg.
An unknown tramp was killed by
the Rock Island passenger train near
Formoso last week. 1t is thought he
was riding on the trucks at the time of
the accident. A man of the same de-
scription did some work on the court
house for Sheriff Cubbison on the same
day,
1t is getting about the time of year
for the band boys TO dig up their
Fourth of July music.
We don't have to rake up uncles and
aunts and cousins of war heroes in
Kansas any more We seem to have
The original stock.
The corn over the state is peeping
through the ground and the indica-
tions are that there is a good stand.
The late spring rains are just what was
needed to make everything grow. The
soil is in the very best condition and
everything is growing nicely.