The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1899-07-14
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

near future.
The banks of Kansas show an in
crease in deposits of over 81, 500, 600 i
the last year.
Grant Gillett has shipped all his cat
Gle and horses from Woodbine to Cen
trail America.
The Capital gives history of tn
first brick made in Topeka and calls
valuable relic
Leavenworth wants to have some o
the new volunteer regiments mustered
in at that point
The inmates of the Hutchinson re-
formatory gave minstrel show OF
the Fourth of July.
Out OF 1877 teachers in attendance a.
the Jackson county institute, but
about dozen are men.
Threshing is progressing very nicely
IN western Kansas, and the yield is
better than was expected.
Kansas papers are laughing at New
Yorv, which has been visited with the
worst drouth known in years.
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.
1t having been duly announced that
the price of coal has gone up the strike
in southeastern Kansas should be call
ed off.
The eastern papers are making fun
of the suggestion that Fred Funston
would make a good candidate for vice
president
There is on exhibition at the State
Historical Society's rooms in the state
house the mummifed bodies of
mother and infant babe. The babe is
clasped in the arms of its mother The
mother is six feet and eight inches in
length, and her physique indicates
that she belonged to race of giants.
The bodies were found in cave in
the Yosemite valley. They were ship
ped to Topeka last week by friend
of Secretary Adams, of the Historical
Society.
: Smallpox has broken out in North
Topeka and the people are greatly ex-
cited James Scott, Sexton of GENE
terry, is the only person who has the
disease SO far. A few days ago
stranger died suddenly in North To-
pel1a, and Scott buried him. The
theory is that the stranger had small
pox and that Scott got the disease
from him Scott and all the neigh
bors who have associated with him
during the past week have been quar-
tined.
Among the many farmers who have
done their share of planting and re-
planting is Charley Sibley, residing in
Clear Creek township, Ellsworth coun-
ty. He planted last fall something
over hundred acres of wheat. This
spring he plowed up sixty acres of it
and planted it to corn and Kafir corn,
and on the 22d day of May the hail
and heavy rain destroyed the plant
Charley replanted it, and on June ed,
just month, forty acres were washed
out and he has it about replanted to
Kaffir corn, and the other twenty
acres, which is badly damaged, he will !
be compelled to let go for lack of time
to plant. This makes the third time
that Mr. Sibley has planted this piece
of land.
Concordia is without electric lights.
The dam which supplied the water
power for the electric light plant was
washed away.
1t isn't much of a day when the boys
w ~ WOl N vi thO PupSio III tiS III hihS !
district cant corral the story of a
shooting scrape.
There is something in the amplitude
of light and the horizon recesses of
prairie scenery which makes Kansas
photographers among the best on
earth. They are so rated in the ma
ton.
In Lyon county last week child !
was riding horse when it reared up
and fell backwards, crushing the child |
80 it died almost instantly.
A lot of homeless lads from New
York will be brought to Howard in
the latter part of July and an effort
will be made to find homes for them |
in Elk county.
Sixteen young men at Horton have
formed club. 1t differs from the or
binary club" which hourishes in Kan
sas in that its rules prohibit drinking
and gambling in their rooms
1t is a good thing for the merchants
of Hiawatha to have Indian prisoners
in the Jail. They draw Indian trade,
There have been more Indians in Hia-
watha since the Indians have been in !