The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1899-04-21
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

MOUND City claims particularly
twift horse and mule market.
Recruiting officers secured fifty-siX
men at Wichita recently, all for the
tavnlry.
In Jetmore in the western part of
the state, every man in town owns the
house he lives in.
In his next report Secretary Coburn
will take up the Kansas sheep and
show how the Kansas climate acts as
hair luxuriant.
Pittsburg will make an effort to
have the Twentieth Kansas mustered
out at that place whenever their term
of service is over.
The Kansas Cotton Mill company OF
Independence has been chartered.
Sooner or later part of Kansas will be
cotton producing.
The body of Harry Odds, Fort
Scott boy has been sent from Manila,
and will be buried in the National
cemetery at Fort Scott.
The jefferson county banks have IN
individual deposits So, 145, 605.@7, or
compared to the population of the
county, $G5 per CAPITA including in
fants
There is no provision for contest
in city election under the Australian
ballot law, but at Salina one man is
contesting another for seat in the
conncil
A Reno county man was convicted
of assault with intent to kill. After
being sentenced he slid out of the
court room and has disappeared. His
bondsmen are looking for him.
The greatest sensation in the vicin-
ity of Pleasanton was created April II
when the miners took out over 400
pounds of lead ore from one of the
mines which will run nearly 90 per
cent pure The ore was found at
depth of sixty feet and in drift only
few feet from the way of the shaft.
The vein or deposit uncovered appears
to be large and the ore as fine as ever
seen. The find has caused great ex-
element and stock in the company
can not be had at any price.
T. T. McCreary, the first settler in
Doniphan county, still lives there and
is hale and hearty. He located in DON
iphan county in 1874, his parents be-
ing induced to come west by his uncle,
who was missionary among the Sac
and Fox Indians near st. Joseph. Mr..
McCreary has seen a great deal of the
Indians in his time and says that in
his experience he never knew them to
kill but one white man and that was
with just provocation. In 1s45, he
drove herd of cattle across the plains
to Sacramento. Mr.. McCreary is now
a we'll known stock raiser.
A large proportion of the trees that
are lost in resetting die because they
have been injured when they were
taken up. Without good root or
stem tree can make but little pro-
gress in growth. In digging up trees
the surface soil should be removed to
the root system, then trench dug
around the tree outside the mass of
roots; then by cutting under the soil
with a sharp spade on each side, the
tree may be loosened from the soil
with good supply of young growing
roots. If the tree is large, the trench
must be made around the roots to the
depth of the lowest, and the roots
gradually loosened and freed from the
soil.
Every little town within few hun
bred miles of Kansas City has the Con-
vention hall fever If all that are af-
ter convention halls are successful
some man might make stake by or
ganizing conventions.
1t has been claimed all along that
the United States has been prosecut-
ing the war in the Philippines in a
humane manner, but the fact has leak
ed out that the Kansas boys have been
il the habit of singing Comrades"
over there within hearing of the
enemy.
On recent meeting night an A. o.
U. w. lodge at Winfield initiated 239
members, which is said to be the larg
est number ever initiated by any one
lodge in the state of Kansas.
Sumner county officials are feeling
good over the prospect of an increase
in their salaries. If the returns of the
township assessors keep up their pres
emit average the population of the
county will go past the $4,000 mark,
which will make possible the salary
advance. A gain of about / 900 is all
that is necessary.
May l is Prohibition day in Kansas.
1t is also Dewey day, and in some