The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1899-10-27

The Republican river is so low thai
fish can be speared in 1t with pitchforks
f. c. Crump has been appointed op
orator in the dispatcher's office al
| Goodland.
The cold storage plant at Nortonvillt
has rs, 900 dozen eggs on hand ready
for the annual winter rise.
To keep up with other debt-payers
the Effingham Methodists have lifted q
mortgage of 1865 on their church.
Professor l.. L. Dyche has 80 requests
for lectures from points in Nebraska,
Colorado, Kansas, Missouri and Okla
homa.
The business of the Abilene post
| Office is increasing so fast the town is
looking forward TO free delivery with
in a year.
For the first time in ten years or
more the Franklin county fair associa-
ton is out of debt; and better yet, the
treasury holds $500.
Thomas NJ. Potter, of Peabody, was
chosen at it's recent meeting as vice
president for Kansas of the Farmers
National congress.
The Pitney ranch near Vermillion is
one of the largest wheat farms in the
state. Twenty thousand bushels of
wheat were harvested this fall.
There is reported the discovery of
ten foot vein of coal in Montgomery
county. That is thicker than any mine
now being worked in the state.
1t is said that a Kansas man who
used to make money operating a rock
quarry in this state went out to Colo
RADIO and went broke on gold mines.
Since the legislature established the
Irvine plant at the penitentiary the
price of hemp has gone up 100 per cent.
This is due to the war in the Philippines.
Jewell county will raise 500 bushels
of corn this year for each man, woman
and child within her borders The en-
tire state will raise 243 bushels for each
inhabitant.
Elmdale has race problem. A
teacher refuses to stay with her school
if q colored girl is allowed to attend
and patrons are threatening to boycott
the institution. The board is trying
to make peace.
Topeka now has garbage crematory
in which is consumed all dead animals
and all garbage gathered and carried
to it from the city, Its capacity is 12O
tons every ten hours. There is no
smoke or odor from it.
The telescope re Gently donated to
college, Atchison, by friends
of the institution in the East, has been
set up and tested, and the instrument
proves to be unequaled west of Chicago
and st. Louis with the exception of the
Lick observatory in California.
The Wathena Star notes a strike OF
rock haulers w orking in a Doniphan
county quarry. They wanted more
pay, and got it. "Some of the men
who refused to work." says the Star,
"were making $40 week, and some
weeks they were doing little better"
There is more green grass in the
Rock Island lawn in front of the Good
land depot than any other place on
their Kansas system. 1t is kept clean,
given plenty of water and has become
a pleasing sight to sight-seers on the
Rock Island. The grass is as green
now as it was any time during the
spring and summer.
Dell Valentine, the newly appointed
clerk of the supreme court, has appoint.
ed subordinates as follows: Deputy
clerk, Herbert L. Armstrong, Topeka;
Stenographer and copyist, VIM. Ogg,
Olathe. The other copyist will prob.
ably be Miss Grace Foulks of Topeka,
daughter of the late Chas. Foulks OF |
the Santa Fe claims department
Col. Dick Blue will soon settle down
in Columbus.
A Topeka mill has just secured con-
tracts for three carloads of product to |
be delivered at Chinese ports. The
west is going to take a hand itself in
this increase of foreign trade.
Lieutenant Fred Bugbee, who was a
of the regiment of Rough
Riders, was married in Wyandotte |
Kans., the other day. with Miss
Grace Cornell. He went Immediately |
to join his regiment, the Fortieth U.
S. Infantry, to proceed to Manila.
New York Press: Reports are that
will be lending money to New
York and New England before long.
A tramp, half crazed with liquor and |
drugs, set fire to the mattress in his cell |
at the Wichita city prison, and fourteen