The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1899-04-28

Charles Griffin of Kansas, has been
appointed to the chair of economics in
the University of Japan.
About every paper printed in west
ern Kansas has something to say about
damages caused by prairie fires
For the first time in ten years a
drummer visited Richtield, away out
there in Morton county, week or so
ago and the Monitor halls his advent
as a sign of prosperity.
Galena set the Kansas pace for rapid
action courtship last Tuesday when,
after a spooning period of but five
hours, young lady of that town mar
ried a we'll known commercial man.
A man capable of making dash like
that ought to be q cracking good
salesman.
When the Twenty.thtrd regiment
was mustered out at Leavenworth the
railroads grabbed the boys up and got
them out of town in hurry, to the
great indignation of the Leavenworth
merchants, who are bowling. Leav-
enworth should take her medicine.
Kansas City probably did not want
the Kansas boys to buy things at
Leavenworth.
Work has commenced at Wellington
on a new elevator which will have
capacity of $4,000 bushels. Yelling
ton. it will be remembered, is in a four
million bushel wheat country, and in
each of the three Kansas counties
which border Sumner-Harper, Sedg-
wick and Cowley-the production of
winter wheat exceed one million BUSH
els both in '97 and '9s.
News of an abduction or kidnapping
case has just been received from the
northwest part of Pratt county. A
young man named Moody Kearns was
paying attention to a young lady, Miss
Carrie King, who did not receive his
attentions favorably He asked her
company to. church and she refused
She went to spend the evening with
friend, and it is said that young
Kearns drove up and called her out of
the house, and that neither of them
have been seen since.
f. L. Ball, leading cattleman of
Dickinson county, went to the Pan
handle recently to buy several hun
bred head of stock cattle, but return
ed without them He says: 1.-The cat
tie on the Panhandle ranges are too
high to ship north-in fact, they are
higher than they are in Kansas, their
condition considered. There were
large losses on the ranches and the big
shipments during the past year have
made the owners stiff on prices. They
hold the stock at figures which sur
prise the northerner. They look for a
boom in cattle and think they will
get their price after awhile"
The county commissioners of Logan
county still hold out against any COM
promise with the railroad company in
the matter of delinquent taxes for
1896 and 1897. Ellis county compro-
missed in this matter of real estate
taxes by throwing off about 95 per
cent, and Russell county threw off all
interest on lands that had been bid in
by the county, at a loss of about 81, 900
or more of interest to he county, but
refusing any compromise on the lands,
certificates to which had been sold to
individuals. Ellsworth county also
refused to compromise. Doubtless the
questions at issue will have to be de-
cided in the higher state courts, if not
in the supreme court of the United
contends that as the road was then in
the hands of the receivers the lands
could not be legally sold for taxes.
Probably the question will como up
when tax deeds are issued to pur-
chasers at tax sales.
A person who has wandered around
through the unfinished portions of the
Kansas State house can keenly appre-
ciate the descriptions travellers give of
explorations through the musty, dusty
gloominess of the Pyramids.
In western Kansas the hens ave
been so busily engaged in laying eggs
that the incubators have beaten them
in Matching out chicks. However, the
incubator has no cackle of supremacy
over the hen coming until it makes
something Of a record in the egg-prc-
ducing line.
Southern Cowley county wants to
get into the Kansas mineral push and
some prospect holes will be sunk at
once.
The death of Eli Thayer of Nasal
chusetts, recalls the remark of Charles
Sumner that he would rather have the