The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1899-06-30
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

the Oskaloosa creamery.
In several Kansas localities wheat
harvest has commenced.
Harper county has increased 1850 in
population during the past year.
The new cement mills at Mulvane
trrned out nearly 1 900 tons of cement
last month.
Wheat straw is short and the header
barge will be the ship of state in Kan
sas this season.
During the past few days the corn
has made a great improvement and is
growing rapidly.
Rural mail distribution has bean es"
tablished in Shawnee county and Will
be given thorough trial.
1t is said there is only one railroad,
and that small one, in the hands OF
a receiver in Kansas today.
The newspaper men at Topeka
wiped up the state house gang the
other day in game of baseball.
Andrew Carnegie has contributed
$500 to the support of the Ladies Ii
brary association at Blue Rapids
Richard Price, It Reno county boy,
won a scholarship at Harvard by his
excellent work at the Kansas state
university
The windows at the state house
were washed the other day. and the
officials have not yet recovered from
the shock.
Billy Jacobia, who is now in the
banking business at Corning, was an
engineer on the Central Branch not so
very long ago.
In Marion county there are 500 dogs
and just four sheep The newspapers
of that county do not mention the
fact with pride.
Ottawa is sinking its money in
hole to find gas Wichita can tell OF
tawa all about these gas holes. She
has one to sell cheap.
1t may be joke, but the Ravens
vile Torchlight says that seventeen
men are after the position of sheriff of
Pottawatomie county.
Kansas postmasters are feeling jubi-
liant. Nearly one-half of the second
class postmasters in the state have
had their salaries raised.
George Munger, the millionaire
laundryman of Greenwood county,
wants to run for governor. Munger
han the money, and can indulge in
the luxury.
Some OF the papers over the state
want the government to rc-enlist the
twentieth Kansas. They do not stop
to think that the boys of the regiment
will have something TO say about this
re-enlisting business.
John Collins, the Lawrence boy in
the state penitentiary charged with
numbering his father, is said to be a
model prisoner. John has long time
to stay there. He might as well be
good from the first.
The first crop of alfalfa on the big
stock ranch of Paris, Paris IL Haskell.
adjoining Gaylord, is safely in the
stack. The firm cut 100 acres, which
yielded over $50 tons. This ranch is
one of the largest in Kansas, contain
ing 5000 acres, embracing hill, valley
and ample water supply. The second
crop will be cut few weeks later.
There are 81 miles of fence on the
ranch, and at this time 1,2OO head of
hogs, 500 head of cattle on feed and
about 500 head in the pasture.
Six Kansas sheriffs have lost their
lives while performing their duty in
one year. 1t is said that this is a
greater per centage of loss among the
total number Of sheriffs than the Kan
sas regiment in the Philippines has
sustained.
Within fifteen days Toronto raised
5000 which will be expended in
searching for gas. Toronto is town
of but 700 people, and such an act
speaks well for the enterprise of her
people Work will be commenced i'm
mediately.
A little orphan boy working for a
farmer near Hutchinson found bridge
of the Hutchinson and Southern afre
and ran to the station and gave the
alarm. The railroad officials sent
him system pass and a nice fat
check.
A government irrigation inspector
was at Hutchinson this week taking
measurement of the water in the
Arkansas river. He had to get down
there during the freshet season, or
there would have been nothing to
measure.
Nearly 5000 Dunl1ards live in Dick
inson county Last week they held