The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1899-05-19


asked to contribute to fund to buy
Fred Funston a sword, whacked up
cents
, A movement is on down at Garnett
to get that town into the natural gas
push. 1t is believed that natural ga:
can be found there.
While Columbus man was attend
ing services in the Baptist church some
unregenerate sinner made off with his
horse and buggy.
The need of more normal schools In
Kansas is illustrated by the fact that
many students from southern Kansas
are attending the Alva, Oklahoma nor
NAL.
A large humber of people are pro-
testing against the proposed pardon OF
Emmett Dalton, the outlaw. Among
those protesting is Lyman U. Humph-
rey.
About the next whirl out of the box
Wichita will want Admiral Dewey to
take command of few mud scows on
the Little river and repeat his exploit
of Manila bay.
If Fred Funston knew that Ameri-
can rymesters were stringing the pub
lie with effusions in which he is made
to appear red-headed and as weighing
but 95 pounds it would worry him
more than the Filipinos do.
Ira Hicks, weather prophet: "Do not
be surprised if cold weather comes i'm
meeiately on the heels of electrical
storms, during the latter half of May.
We believe that the temperature will
fall low enough for snow squalls in
the north, with heavy frosts at night,
after the cloud areas have passed
away. May ends much warmer and
threatening"
Cattlemen of Oklahoma and western
Kansas are in a dispute; some of them
claim that the heel fly has stinger
and others maintain that it has not.
In order to settle this question before
the political conventions begin to en-
gross public attention the cattlemen
ought to appoint committee of one
to back up against heel fly while in
action.
An endowment of $4,000 has just
been made to the Princeton university
for the establishment of chair of pol
itics, by some one who requested that
his name be not made public. The
man who takes that course and wants
to try his hand should come to Kansas
where homegrown talent would
skunk him at every stage of the game,
from township caucus to the state con-
vention.
A poor stand of any crop Ray in
most instances be traced to poor seed.
1t may be immature or too old. Most
seed deteriorates rapidly after from
one to three years. Immature seed is
most often met within the so-called
hay crops as alfalfa, millet and timo-
thy, for in these it is impossible to
harvest the crop so as to get all the
seeds matured and at the same time
avoid SCATTERING.
Since the formation of the Twentieth
Kansas regiment year ago tlfty-seven
Kansas soldiers have lost their lives.
Sickness attacked the camp soon after
it had been pitched in the sand lots
near Golden Gate park in San Fran
cisco. The health of the volunteers
improved after the camp had been re-
moved to the Preside, but in the
meantime several Kansans died. Dis
ease has caused twenty-eight deaths
since the regiment was mustered into
the United States service. Twenty
one men were killed in action-dead
before they were taken from the field.
Eight soldiers died from wounds re-
ceived in battle, only one or two of
these living more than few days af-
ter they were shot.
There is more than glory in being
promoted from colonel to brigadier
general. The pay is $1,000 year bet
ter.
Fred Wellhouse, The apple king Of
Kansas, says that this year Kansas
will have the greatest apple crop in her
history. But the constitutional yaw-
per will kick because the peaches are
a partial failure.
Kansas was visited by good rain
on the night of May 5, and everything
is growing nicely. 1t was benefit to
the young corn.
Judging from the numerous adver-
tisements in the Kansas papers offer
ing money to loan the country is in no
danger of lack of money with which
to do business.
Attention was recently called by To-