The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1900-07-20

vest.
There is new trouble brewing in
the National Soldiers home at Leaven-
worth.
Two sections of Saline county land
was sold by the sheriff for $4,000 last
week.
The expenditure by the state for the
Dodge City Soldiers home for June
was 4,490.
Patchen and Gentry, the two Kan
sas horses, have been on Canadian race
courses lately.
Mrs. Margaret Kincaid, of Topeka,
took concentrated I've, installing it for
soda. She died.
Three gangs of men are at work on
the new long distance telephone line
from Wichita to Oklahoma City.
Pratt county claims its wheat crop
to be from 25 to 35 bushels per acre
and that it is testing sixty pounds.
Jasper Williams, of Sumner county,
had dangerous encounter with mad
bull in a pasture. He was seriously
hurt.
C. NJ. Cunningham, of Osborne coun-
ty, has just sold his crop of wheat
raised three years ago for 81 cents
bushel.
A smallpox patient was put off
train at Hope and was promptly quar-
antined. He had been in Salina and
Gypsum.
The harvest brought more than the
usual number of tramps into Kansas
and now trouble with them is reported
in many places.
Nineteen cattle broke out of pas
ture in Jewell county and fed in field
of Kafir corn. Within an hour Is of
them were dead.
A Sedan dispatch says that so cattle
have died in the southern part of Chau-
tauqua county. A rigid quarantine
has been established.
Fred Stone, of Cedar Valley, Neosho
county, was found dead, lying on his
face in a small stream where he had
taken his horses to drink.
A high wind in Dickinson county
scattered wheat and oat stacks in all
directions and damage was done to
windows, trees and chimneys.
State auditor Cole has counted up on
the assessors reports and finds that
Kansas has s15, Ill wagons and 5000
buggies which have been listed.
J. c. Banta, of Douglas comfy, has
a crop of fine peaches from his As acre
orchard with 100 trees to the acre. He
says the yield will be five bushels to
the tree.
Drouth in Cloud county continued
for more than month and corn is
destroyed in many fields
Farmers are hurrying their cattle and
hogs to market.
Seven children of the Steiner family
in Burlington, were laid out by pto-
maine poisoning in buttermiliS. Three
Of them were given up at first, but all
will probably recover.
Senator Harris is bargaining the
sale of his estate at Linwood and the
purchase of ranch land in Ellis county.
lie wants more room for his business
Of breeding blooded cattle.
Andy Wilburn, of Ford county re-
ports that it required 81 pounds of
Irvine to the acre in his wheat harvest,
while ~ pounds is usually sufficient.
lie claims 50 to 40 bushels to the acre.
A man at Corbin, Sumner county, |
writes that fully one-fourth of the
wheat in shocks, in that section was /
.hreshed ont by hail. Threshing will /.
&c delayed probably ten days by the
'ain.
The supreme court takes vacation
until sometime in September.
The Kansas Agricultural college has
made dates for series of agricultural |
picnic institutes, at each of which at !
east two representatives of the state
experiment. farm will deliver address
IS.
A Sedgwick county farmer has for
years estimated his wheat weld by |
the kernels in average heads |
over the field. He says this average |
will be about the same as the acreage |
yield of the field in bushels
The Atchison bridge is to be rebuilt |
1t cost of 100000. The iron in the
present bridge will go to the scrap pile
md the new bridge will be of steel.
Sixty men will be employed from Octo-
Der to March 1.
Geuda Springs and all property per-
-o;p;po +barato bar baap cold 70 T. n