The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1899-03-10
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREsE

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corn.
None OF the superintendent ap'
pointed to the state institutions ever
touch liquor
A Kansas evangelist is making a
great sinner-saving record down in the
Indian territory
Farmers in the southwest complain
that the loco weed is causing an un-
usual lot of trouble.
A number of residents of hutchinson
will take a trip through Europe next
summer. The project is being steered
by men who have covered the ground
before.
Last summer at a lawn social at
Wichita IA young man named Tanker
sley slashed Earl Evans with knife.
Last week he got four years il the
pen for it.
The recent magnificent donation to
the Kansas Wesleyan university at
Salina will place that institution on
its feet it is said. 1t is almost enough
to put it on wings.
The society people of COTS and Wet
more who enjoy dancing are determin-
ed to never again attend a mask ball
in COTS. The young men thoroughly
advertised one, and it was attended
with crowded house of people from
the towns and country all around
One Of the costliest and most unique
masks was worn by a young colored
girl, but the young men and ladies
didn't know it until the masks were !
removed, and the dance ended.
A man drifted into Wichita the other
day with terrible tale of woe. He |
said that he would not give half dol |
lar an acre for all the wheat he had |
seen; that it was in terrible condition.
"A farmer came into Atchison the other
day with similar tale He said that
the wheat was gone up the fiume and
that he would gladly sell all his grow
ing crop for $40 an acre; but the Globe
says that when a man showed up with
the price the discouraged farmer back
ed out of the deal.
Nearly every mail brings letters
from farmers in various parts of the
state asking where soy bean can be
had, and saying they are going to try
this valuable new crop. The recent
bulletin from the farm department on
this subject has been the source of the
first information about soy beans to
many farmers. This was brief bull
1etin, and cost but little; yet the value
of the difference in Kansas agriculture
resulting from this bulletin alone,
saying nothing of others issued from
this station, my become greater every
year than the station has yet cost.
During the past week the farm de-
part at Manhattan has been buying
hogs to repeat the kafir feeding ex-
pertinent Ten head arrived late one
evening and were turned into the
paved barnyard. About bushel of
whole kaffir was thrown on the pave
ment for them and close by an armful
of alfalfa hay. The hogs began eat
ing the kafIir very greedily, and in
about one of them came in
contact with the hay. They did not
spit out the l1afir to eat the hay, but :
their actions showed that the hay
suited them better; and the next morn. $
ing there was less alfalfa than liaffir
left where the hogs were fed.
The Methodist church people of
Atchison give LAP suppers." Those {
are not supposed to act S
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An exchange says: ''Dr. Algood, who q
is wintering 400 head of Alabama cat &
tie at Luray, reports loss of 80 per c
cent The winter has been too severe
NdLIACs OH I
this item the Beloit Gazette says: For 4
the life of us we can't have much pity c
for the man who will buy Alabama or |
any other Southern cattle. They are V
not fit to waste feed on" Y
A new asylum for the insane may be
built, but it looks as if deciding its 7
location would make more people i
crazy than it can possibly accoInmo- v
date
Oberlin is great NJ. w. A. town. a
There are 271 members in good stand l
ing in the Woodman lodge there, they c
have thousand dollars in the treas t
ury, and are talking of building hall. c
Osborne has lodge with a member ]
ship of 27O, and these two lodges it is S
claimed are the largest ones in the t
state west of Salina. c
Kansas creamery men have mighty
kindly feeling for Emil Grosser, Dick q
inson county's representative. I
Topeka is naturally pleased over the Q
as5, 900 which congress has given it for
It's public building. The citizens de- /