The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1899-08-18
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.


the jokes it has suggested.
In the early days there we're cattle
men in the west who contended that
cows could not be taught to drink out
of trough.
Twenty-Five Indians from the Chip
pewa reservation in North Dakota
have arrived at the Haskell institute
at Lawrence where the will attend
school.
The man who has hundred-acre
corn field in Trego county will make
mere out of it this year than the man
will make who has a hundred-acre
gold field in the same county.
One thing that makes it SO terrible
for woman to grow old in Kansas is
the habit which many of the newspa-
pers of the state have of speaking of
every woman past co as grandma"
A farmer near the Agricultural col
lege has filed charges against the new
regents Governor Stanley says he
will pay no attention to them as they
were filed to get the author of them
newspaper notriety.
AS a result of Governor Stanley S
plan of shutting off the granting of
pardons, there are fewer applications
for pardons on file than there have
been for fifteen years. The convicts
have quit fling them.
There has been considerable news
paper comment concerning the Kansas
girl who sacrificed $50, 900 in order to
marry one of Funston's men. Will
some one please give the name and
postoffice address of said girl?
Old soldiers at the Leavenworth
Home complain that night providers
steal fish from the lines that are set
over night There is a certain gang
In and around Leavenworth, the men,
bers of which feel that they have a
right to anything they are smooth
enough to steal.
A prominent Kansas exchange truth
fully remarks $50 teacher in the
district school is cheaper than the s25
teacher. The $50 teacher works to
earn the salary paid and the pupil
reaps the reward. The SIS teacher
has no salary to earn and as conse-
quence does but little real work and
the pupil does not advance.
In the western division of Kansas
the ground generally is in fine condi-
ton. Early corn is hardening and
the late corn is coming into roasting
ears The corn is fine, though in the
northern counties grasshoppers are in
juring it and forage crops. Hay, for
age crops and range grass are making
fine growth. Haying has begun.
Dampness delays threshing; what lit
tie has been done discloses very poor
yield The Russian thistle is ripening
in Trego county.
A reaction from the excessive heat
of the last few days came August 9th
when rain came to the relief of swell
tering people and scorched vegetation.
The rains were largely local and they
ranged from light showers to three
hour downpours. All southern Kan
sas came in for share of the rain. AS
result of the rain, conservative grain
men say that corn yield far above
the average is reasonably certain in
nearly all that district embracing be-
tween Rice county on the north, the
state line on the south, Cowley county
on the east and Pratt county in the
west.
There were only 5000 head of cattle
in Barbour county when it was called
az. .ss ccssttlemen's paradise. Now there
are $4,000.
Canadian immigration agents are
trying to induce Kansas farmers to
move to John Bulls territory. The
devil might just as well try to entice
t.. u,,. - the heavenly choir into
his dominions.
The announcement for a cattlemen's
picnic in Kingman county bears the
hearty invitation to Come and see
our smoked"
Hutchinson is feeling good. 1t il
confidently believed that at least foul
big wholesale houses will soon estab
lish branches there.
Secretary of Agriculture coburI
may visit Wichita without fear OF be
ing lynched, since he has correcte'
the figures in his report which showe'
that that town had lost in population
last year.
Will somebody explain what ONE
Is involved in the circumstances tina
most of the sunhowers in KANSAS ar
double this year.
II ,.o,,1d he a waste IF time for til