The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1899-08-18
Broom corn is said to be in good
condition in Kansas

Homegrown grapes are now on the
market and in another week they will
be very cheap.
The farmer near Beloit who has a
Sc, 900 barn and a 5000 house must have
come from Lancaster county, Pa.
Fred Buchan passed the regular
army examination with the highest
grades ever attained by candidate
for commission at Fort Leaven-
worth. His standing was ninety-eight
per cent.
Ed Learned, of Cowley county, sold
his farm for 81, 900 and has taken the
hard, bright, tickle cash to Arizona
with him to prospect for gold. Some
body should chain him up and appoint
a guardian.
A tenant on farm in Franklin
county who was given permission to
fell all the timber he wished, cut GOO
walnut trees into props and sold them
at two cents apiece to the Usage coun-
ty coal miners
A Hiawatha man has a farm that he
has rented for sixteen years straight
at $3.50 year without failing to re-
ceive every cent of the rent. The
farm has more than paid for itself
with good interest.
The industrial commissioner of the
Santa Fe railroad says that Kansas
today is attracting more attention
than any other state in the union. In
this particular Kansas is the same yes
terday, today and forever.
There is reason to believe that
good many of the fnanciers who have
invested in the gold lands in Trego
and Ellis counties have laughed at
little boys for trying to catch birds by
sprinkling salt on their tails.
1t is Kansas legend that annually
at this season Queen Victoria PAGES up
and down the ancestral halls of Wind
sor castle demanding angrily to know
if her regular supply of Leavenworth,
Kansas, apples have arrived yet.
Officials of Morris county and the
printers of Council Grove are billed
for base ball contest The county
officials will be beaten so badly that
they will be ashamed to enter the
print shops for the purpose of paying
subscriptions
Too many cattle and horses are kill
ed by lightning while standing near
wire fences Why not prevent all this
loss and really make the pasture safer
with the wire than without? Connect
each wire at intervals to the ground
by wire reaching the moist soil.
The ground wire will conduct the
electricity during thunder storm
from the fence to the ground. A fence
wire well grounded is as much preven-
ton as lightning rod is to build
ing.
Cheap Rates to Pacific Coast via Santa Fe.
The Santa Fe are selling tickets to
San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego
and other California points at the very
cheap rate OF $32 So
To Portland and points in Idaho and
Oregon $2s. IS. For particulars call
on or address, L. r. DELANEY, Agt,
Wichita, Kans
A Cowley county man has trouble
on his mind. He is the owner of fine
patch of tomatoes, and from some
cause or other, without any evidence
of human agency, they are rapidly
disappearing, the vanishing act al
ways being done at night. The owner
of the patch is of an investigating
turn OF mind, and he is now setting
UP nights with his patch of tomatoes
determined to run down the pheno-
menon if possible. He is also of a
practical turn of mind, and believes
that few dunn dunn bullets planted
where they will do the most good
will remove the hoodoo.
Some of the papers along the line of
the Central Branch are clamoring for
u night passenger train, and the more
hopeful among them hint that it
would be the proper caper to include
q sleeper in the equipment,
The general conditions of the wealth
err during the week have been warm,
with good rains across the state, ex-
tending from the southwestern
to the northeastern counties. Dry
weather continues in the southern
counties east of Clark, and in some OF
the central counties
The summers practice in the dia'
mond is not altogether lost So much
training of the muscles ought to in
crease the daily corn output in shuck
ing time ut least five bushels per day
Mayor Frazier has notified the citi'
, zens of Coffeyville that unless thu
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