The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1899-07-21
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

There is but one red headed man in
the state penitentiary.
The eastern part of the state is flood
ed by high water, caused by heavy
rains.
There are no less than l, 300, 900 cat
tie being fattened in Kansas at this
time.
Atchison is preparing to drill to find
the coal which it is believed underlies
the town.
The Crawford opera house at Leav-
enworth has been ordered sold for the
mortgage
1t is said that the prettiest home in
the town of Sedgwicl1 is occupied by
an old bachelor
The mine operators in eastern Kan
sas have issued an ultimatum in which
they state that no union man can get
employment in their mines.
Robert Fleming, an Atchison color
ed man, has such large feet that he
has to have shoes made for himself. A
number twelve is several inches too
small for him.
The state of Kansas will produce
tons of lucious grapes. The vines are
trembling beneath their great weight,
and no one has yet ventured an esti-
nation of the yield.
II. S. Lands, who recently gave up
the Office of warden of the penitentiary,
has taken his family and removed
from Lansing to Galena where he will
engage in mining and prospecting.
Mr. Lands formerly lived in Barber
county but the probabilities are that
he will made his future home in south
eastern Kansas. Lands and eX-gov-
ernor Leedy have some mining inter-
ests together in the mining district of
Kansas
The business men of Lebanon will
soon commence active preparations for
their annual celebration and picnic,
October l, which they have kept up
ever since the completion of the Rock
Island road to the town. Improve
ments aggregating about S25, 600 have
been made during the first six months
of the year. Many other improvements
will follow the last half of the year,
as the prospects fora corn crop are the
best in the history of Smith county.
Anderson Smith, prominent and
we'll to do stocl1man living five miles
northwest of Erie, accidentally shot
killed himself on the morning of July
10. He had been shooting some yell
low hammers that had been bothering
around his barns, and had started to
the house to put away his shot gun3
When going through the gate his gun
was discharged in some manner, the
load tax .ng effect in his side, killing
him instantly and setting his clothes
on fire.
If anybody thinks that Shawnee
county is too highly civilized to be
infested with coyotes, he is mistaken,
but if very many men do as well as
James Gordon, of Rossville township,
toward DISCRIMINATING the pests they
will cony, haoOr,a cooroar +boD +ba ,,rn-
verbal hens teeth. Mr. Gordon, who
is farmer in Rossville township, Sur
prised the county officials a day or two
ago by appearing at the court house
with 23 coyote scalps, which he says
came from animals which he killed on
Cross creek, in the northern part of
Rossville township. Some of the scalps
were exceedingly large and must have
belonged to good-sized specimens of
the coyote family
B. P. Scott, assistant secretary of
the state labor bureau, has returned
from Lawrence, where he notified con-
tractors engaged on the Kansas uni
versity chemistry building to permit
no further violations of the eight hour
law.
Home grown pears are going to be
very cheap this season. The trees are
loaded with all they can bear, and the
quality of the fruit will be frst-class.
This is the first season in many years
than Kansas has produced good crop
of pears,
The assessors in the different coun-
ties of the state do not agree as to the
value of personal property by a whole
lot. In Stafford county new buggy
is worth 81. 90, according to the asses
sor, while in Leavenworth county it
is held at S1s.75.
The kissing bug has reached Kansas
and every man should be on his guard.
An eastern Kansas man is carrying
around large juicy lump over his lip
which marks the spot where the kiss
ing bug got in its work one night last
week.
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