The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1899-08-04
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

GOOD rains are reported Throughout
the state.
The new Jail at Mankato will doubt
less be jewell.
The free mail delivery in Shawnee
county is proving a success.
The Chautauqua at Ottawa is prov
ing great success this year.
The Kaw valley potato trust is get
ting in its work, and potatoes are ris'
ing.
If there is one word that the Topeka
papers like to use above all others it is
en- route
Lawn socials and picnic parties have
hard time in Kansas this year dodg-
ing rain.
kansas is shining up this year. Side
walk ordinances are very common in
the state.
The board of equalization has raised
the assessment of Cowley county near
ly 95 per cent.
The wheat harvest in western Kan
sas has been delayed by heavy rains,
and much wheat damaged.
Z If salt will drive away feas, as an
agricultural paper claims, there ought
to be very few of those insects in
Hutchinson.
There is one corn stalk in Atchison
which has five ears of corn on it The
present corn crop is the greatest the
state has ever had.
The Topeka negro who was struck
on the head with a monkey wrench is
getting better, but the wrench will
never be any good again.
There is lots of talk in Florida over
the discovery OF a gypsum bed. There
is enough gypsufa in Kansas to white
wash all the territorial planets.
Most of the letters from Kansas men
in Cuba and Porto Rico make Z kick
because of the custom which compels
man when calling on a young woman
to stand the presence of the whole
family.
In Kansas hop tea is said to be non
Intoxicating. A man got one hundred
days in Jail for selling the stuff to
Indians in the Indian territory. The
hard hearted United States judge
called it beer.
Kansas is now growing her greatest
apple crop beyond all question. Trees
which hitherto have born only cat
erpillar and half dozen leaves are so
full of apples that they droop like
weeping willows.
Kansas from a frontier state has
grown to domain of great delicacy
and decorum. One prisoner in the
Atchisor Jail threshed another last
week because the latter insisted on
splitting on the floor.
An immigration agent is working in
Kansas to secure people to move to
Canada. He has got mighty cold
reception thus far. The people have
to be shown when man says there is
better country than Kansas.
A. Livingston, Cowley county
farmer, has two-acre patch of sor-
ghum that was about two feet high
Last week the army worms got into it
and completely stripped it of every
blade, leaving nothing but the stalk.
They went from there into corn
field, but the corn was not tender
enough for them, so they left it and
now they are cleaning up the crab
grass in that vicinity.
The only thing that Kansas can find
to complain about this year is that the
sand plums are not quite as good as
usual
Blackberries are unusually plentiful
in Douglas county this year and are
being canned in great quantities for
the nourishment of university students
next winter.
One of the boys at Luzon has not
forgotten he is from Kansas. His
name is Ozias, and he has collected a
lot of Filipino relics and sent them to
the Kansas Historical society.
In Clifton, Dickinson county, lives
an old gentleman who beguiles his de-
clining years by getting full and talk
ing Dickens.
The state board Of equalization has
fixed the price of land in Leavenworth
county at $3.50 an acre, but the best
of it couldn't be bought for much less
than ten times that amount.
Fireworks were substituted for rice
and old shoes when young couple
started away from Lawrence on their
wedding journey. This is an innova-
tion that deserves encouragement.
new Kansas National Guard com
pany has been established at Ottawa
Jim Hackey lives in Decutur county