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

Linn county has the kind Of soil
that grows corn 16 feet high.
The late pears will soon be on the
market The trees are loaded and the
quality fine.
Cattlemen are doing big business
Cattle are selling at big prices and the
demand is good.
A woman in Grant county braids
the spines of soap weeds and makes
hats for her boys
| An exchange commends Leaven-
worth for the vigorous effort the town
s making to clean out the Klondike
district
Joe Longley, Rocks county farmer,
last week marketed hog IA months
and two days old, which weighed 545
pounds.
Lawrence, which is hunting gas, has
prospect hole down three hundred
feet and pretty good vein of coal has
been pierced.
All the farmers are going to be
''plutes' this fall There will be a
great migration to the Paris eXposi-
ton next summer.
Nine is the lucky number instead of
eleven. In 1869, 1879, 1889 and 1899
there have been immense crops of
both wheat and corn.
Plenty of delicious grapes are now
on the Kansas markets. Kansas has
seen some big grape years, but this
year beats them all.
Edward Gillett, an eighteen-year-old
boy, was found dead in Pratt county
pasture last week. 1t is supposed he
was kicked by horse.
Topeka is following in Chicago and
New York footsteps, and is annexing
all the surrounding country in an at
tempt to boost its population.
Another rain fell in the southwest a
few days ago 'just in the nick of time"
| it is stated. Rains in Kansas have a
faculty of hitting this mick"
A nan who can smile at Satan's
rage and face frowning world is the
Butler county farmer whose oats
averaged sixty-ive bushels to the
acre.
No new political parties will be or
ganized in Kansas this fall. The
farmers will be too busily engaged in
the corn fields to give ear to the agi-
tators.
A officer is at Fort Scott this week
after recruits for the Tt irty-third
regiment, which is being licked into
shape at Fort Sam Houston, San An
tonic, Texas. This regiment will go
to the Philippines.
Lumber men are hustling this year
to keep up with the demands made on
the yards and it is stated that every
brick plant in the state is behind its
orders. This is great building year
for Kansas
Farmers in Butler county report
army worms in great numbers at
lacking the crab grass, cookie burrs,
morning glories, sunfowers and other
weeds in the corn fields, and that they
actually take everything in the fields
but the corn. One man said his corn
was SO clean that he could play mar
bles between the rows.
The Wichita Eagle says: Farming
is a business The man who under
stands farming succeeds The men
who do not fail You will find thous.
ands and thousands of men in Kansas
who have made fortunes farming. A
man sat in the Eagle office the other
day and displayed letter of credit
from his banker for So. 900. Twenty
FIVE years ago he struck this country
with SIS. He has made all his money
farming in SedgwiclS county. His ex-
plaration for his success is simply
that he knew how to farm.
The BARRIERS of southern Kansas have
gone into an agreement not to shave
, the back of the neck without extra
pay.
Since he has been in office, Probate
Judge Rea of Brown county, has is
sued two marriage licenses to persons
who decided afterwards that they did
not care to yoke up.
/ Wichita may try to have state re-
union of the Elks in connection with
her street fair Wichita is going to
put enough money in the street fair
to make it corker.
A Texas cattleman was visiting in
Montgomery county last week, and
while there, for the first time In his
life, saw apples on the trees.
The oldest person ever sent to an In
sane asylum In Kansas is Miss Mary
] Jenkins, who was recently taken &c