The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1899-02-03
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

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Establish a skimming station at st
Marys
Wichita is still having the grip; alsC
signs, knocks and passwords. Topeka
has pass keys.
An Atchinson colored man, a baptist
60 years old, has just discovered that
he is "healcr."
Kansas papers of the past week take
pride in referring to the published
bank statements.
The Mail estimates that the people
of Wellington have spent close to SO, 0Ot
for war revenue stamps.
A number of Marysville boys, desir'
Gus of learning telegraphy, have pur.
chased instruments and put up peck
ct edition telegraph line.
There is new lodge in Kansas; for
boys this time. 1t is military in its
nature, and the members take a pledge
w dpoJeilh HUH lODdCGO,
liquor and profane- language.
When the Kansas farmer reads of
the thousand of dollars that are paid
out for a particularly fancy breed of
carnations, he can't help but wish that
the people would go crazy over sun
flowers.
The Frisco has $40, 900 damage suit
on hand, as the result of injuries re-
ceived by Emma Ross, fourteen-year-
old girl, at Opolis last October. She
was riding horseback and was struck
by the engine of an extra.
BY the time that fourteen-mile-lak
in Barton county gets fled with water
Kansas will begin to grow sea serpent
stories, too They will be appreciated.
The horned jackrabbit story is becom-
ing sadly frayed
A great longing for the coming of
spring always makes itself manifest
about this season of the year. This is
the season when Kansas puts on her
best clothes; when it is the easiest to
feel good naturcd and when life is
most enjoyable.
The good people of Onaga have their
eyes focused on a certain building in
that town where it is alleged that
gambling games are carried on in de
fiance of the law and against the peace
and dignity of the state, and some
thing is liable to drop.
A colony of Virginians are thinking
of locating in Sumner county. Kansas
has had more than her share of back
Gaping during the past few years, but
after all she is bully old state and
this truth is beginning to soak in on
the country in proper shape.
Washington county wants to build a !
county Jail and the legislature is ask
ed to pave the way by passing a bill |
the county commissioners !
to begin work upon the structure. |
The measure also authorizes the com
missioners to appropriate from the
general revenue fund of the county !
IS, 900 to defray the expense connected |
with the building. The bill convey
ng such authority was introduced in
The senate by Mr.. Morrow of Washing
ION county.
The report of United States Marshal
Bennett of the northern district, for
he year ending January 1, shows that
he has handled l, 1O1 prisoners during
he year 1898. OF this number, 127
we're taken to the penitentiary at Fort
Leavenworth, Kans., rs to the peni-
5entiary at Columbus, Ohio, 3s to the
at jefferson City, Mo-, 9G
% the reform school at Bonneville,
No., 90 to the United States Jail at
Fort Smith, Ark, . were hanged, 1913
served their sentences in the Muskogee
Jail, and 4 died in Jail.
The fact that peach trees produce
iull crop only on occasional years has
caused such little planting of trees in
Kansas that good peaches are always
scarce, and some years not produced at
Ill in the state. The uncertainty of
his crop is due to the changeableness
Of the climate Peach buds can stand
intense cold if it comes when they are
nature and dormant. We say, the
cold weather in February kills the
buds, when, in reality, the warm spell
n January was as much the cause. A
vell-ripened bean will endure the
most extreme cold, but is quickly kill
I'd if frozen before it ripens or after it
mas terminated. The case is the same
with peach buds. The crop may be
ruined in the fall before the buds have
natured; warm weather may start
growth in mid-winter and subsequent
cold kills the buds, or they may en-
lure the winter, start properly in
spring and be killed by late cold
spells.
Kansas farmers are preparing for