The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1899-07-07

The new history of Kansas, writer
by Noble Prentis, sells for siXty-si'
cents.
Ottawa has a soap factory which IL
turning out one thousand pounds o.
soap day.
Some trouble hunter in Lyon coun
ty has been dynamiting fish in the
Cottonwood.
The broom corn over the state is be-
ginning to look fine, with prospects OF
a good yield.
A number of cattle and horses have
been killed in Greenwood county by
being bitten by snakes.
Kansas papers are laughing at New
Yorv, which has been visited with the
worst drouth known in years.
Bale Waggener, who lost money on
Klondike expedition, will more than
make it back out of lead and zinc
mines.
In Harvey county there are 9S7 peo-
pie who are over seventy years OF
age. OF these 1j2 are men and l35
women.
OF course it isn't right, but it is a
fact that the men who collect dog tax
and poll tax are regarded as public
enemies.
There are several hail insurance
companies which have organized in
Kansas of late. They are all doing
good business.
1t isn't much of day when the boys
who work on the papers in the mining
district cant corral the story of a
shooting scrape.
The Kansas boys, after several
months hard fighting on the firing
line of the Philippines, have been sent
to the rear When they retired they
had an effective force of but $50 men
out of an original strength of 1900
good men. Kansans are conceded to
be all right.
No war hero gets to go through Kan
sas without being called out on the
platform at every station. The rail
road that brings Funston home should
add a fiat car to the train and build
pedestal on it for the General. Peo-
Pile along the line will expect a con-
tinuous exhibition and will make
trouble if they don't get it.
H. Van Leeuwen has been appointed
instructor in the cheese department at
the Manhattan dairy school, and just
about the time he received this APP
pointment he received notice that he
had been appointed instructor at the
dairy school at Madison, Wisconsin,
and at the dairy school at Columbia,
Mo. Here is a man with more APP
pointment on his hands than he knows
what to do with. Mr. Van Leeuwen
is seriously considering which APP
pointment to accept, but has not yet
decided.
John Kelly, who lives on the old
Blue farm near Ottumwa, is generally
one Of the most successful wheat
growers of Coffey county, but this year
he gives it up and admits that wheat
is failure so far as he is concerned.
He had about ninety-fve acres sown
and plowed up all but thirty, and now
says that if he gets all his seed back
his expectations will be fulfilled. An
other farmer has reported to the State
Board of Agriculture that IS per cent
Of the wheat sown in Coffey county
will not be harvested, and that which
is harvested will yield only about GO
per cent of a full crop The unadorn-
ed fact is that The wheat crop is gen.
orally failure in Coffey county this
year. The early fall, unusually hard
winter and numerous chinch bugs in
the spring were the cause.
The house flies in Kansas are less
bothersome this summer than they
have been for years. The extreme
cold last winter killed off some of the
old dodgers who have been filing the
place of granddad for good many
years.
After years of experience it has been
decided at Wheeling, w. Va, that
brick pavements are the most satisfac-
tory that can be laid; and no state in
the Union, be it remembered, can pro-
duce better paving brick than can be
made right here in Kansas
Billy Edwards is a genuine Kansas
boomer, and he will never get over it.
He is now predicting that an unprece-
dented number of immigrants will
come to Kansas this fall to settle.
1t costs something 10 get cannon
for ornamental purposes even if the
old guns are donated by the govern