The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1899-06-23
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.


There are three or four circuses
working through Kansas just now.
The estimated cost of Funston's
sword would buy nearly 1900 pruning
hooks.
Walter Norduft of Chase county, was
drowned while crossing Lost Creek
last week.
The state of Kansas will produce
many thousands of bushels of apples
this year.
Beloit's fire department will have
charge of the Fourth of July celebra-
ton there.
A Dickinson county man has figured
it out that a good lilac crop means a
good corn crop.
1t has been found that the Kansas
chigger this year swims and carries
sword and bayonet
A couple of Scandal men have in
vented railroad weed cutter which
is said to work all right.
Kansas corn is growing so rapidly
now that it is probable it will pull the
state up foot or two above its proper
level.
A Clay county woman Matched 3ls
chicks from 1886 eggs. She did not
leave the task to her hens, but used an
incubator.
Ellis county raises enough wheat
each year to feed 100000 persons. The
population of the county is only seven
thousand.
There is no protest against the wolf
bounty in Marion county, where the
measley coyotes are killing the stock
mems calves.
The sky in Kansas this last week
has been in a condition where it would
start in and rain if farmer merely
sneezed hard.
r While church social was being
held in Downs recently some one stole
lot of the ice cream. Some of these
days the offender will be imploring
some of the good ladies from whom he
stole the cream to please let fall just
one little drop of it on the tip of his
tongue.
Telephone service is marching on to
Jewell City Parties have been grant
ed the right to put in plant there;
and according to the terms of the or
dinance work must be commenced
within two months, and the plant be
ready for use within forty days there
after.
A factory is to be built either in To
peka, Leavenworth, or Fort Scott,
Kans., for the manufacture of corn
stalk pith into cellulose, to be used as
part of the equipment of battleships.
The projectors will pay probably 81
ton for stalks. Land that will grow
fifty bushels of corn to the acre will
produce two tons of stalk.
AS there is no money available to
replace the buildings at the state re-
form school, which were destroyed by
fire last week, the board of charities
is considering the ACCESSIBILITY of con-
,ferring with some of the business men
of Topeka to ascertain if the public
spirited citizens will not raise and
loan to the state until the Legislature
tconvenes, at per cent interest, $10,-
900, the amount which will be neces-
sary to replace the buildings. When
one of the university buildings burned
the citizens of Lawrence advanced the
money to rebuild it. The last legisla-
ture reimbursed them.
Thatreputab agriCulturist, Charlie
Sessions of Topeka, says that the wire
worm is playing havoc with the corn
all over the state.
A private letter from Z. c. Little,
lieutenant colonel of the Twentieth
Kansas volunteers in the Philippines,
says that although he has apparently
recovered from the wound caused by
the accidental discharge of his own
pistol, he is not able to stand long
rides on horseback or long marches.
1t is not likely that he will ever re-
gain perfect health.
Henry Mehl, of Leavenworth county,
appointed by the state board of phar-
macy as inspector of pharmacy in
Kansas is out on tour of the state to
look after the observance of the phar-
macy laws.
During the past few days heavy
rains are reported all over the western
part of the state, where rain was need
ed so badly. In some sections, in the
extreme western part of the state, it
came to late to save the wheat, but it
will greatly benefit corn, rye, oats and
all vegetables
Thirty-three prisoners from the In
dian territory arrived at the federal
prison at Leavenworth last week; the