The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1901-10-18
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The ranchmen about Liberal are mar
vesting the largest forage and feed
crops ever known there,
Wellington proposes to build another
dam across Stale creek, to increase the
supply of water for the town.
A company at Pleasanton has $4,000
to prospect for gas. The scheme includes
taking leases on 1O,0 900 acres of land.
Thirty-five sophomores of Kansas
University must apologize for ungentle-
manly conduct or vamose the ranch.
The Santa Fe will not be stingy of
expense in the effort to bring the muir
derer of George Montgomery into court
Discharged men from the Standard
Oil refinery at Neodesha were among
the first to prevent heavy loss from
fire.
Coopers of Hutchinson, though kept
busy making salt barrels, have 1000
apple barrels to make at once, on con-
tract.
1t may be only talk but there is talk
that the Rock Island will build from
Pratt to Medicine Lodge and thence to
Kiowa.
\ commission has been appointed by
the supreme court to recount the To
pella vote for mayor and the count is
being made.
The barb worm which infested wheat
fields in Saline county, proved bene-
fit to the crop by cleaning the boards
from the wheat.
The Holton Tribune says that Sarah
Burr Daniels, who lives in jackson
county and is 96 years old, is an own
cousin of Aaron Burr.
Admire resents the story of joint
raiding there, and wants it known that
the Joints are all closed but that it was
done according to law.
The Carnegie library at Leavenworth
is nearly completed. The city will pay
that part of its cost not met by Mr..
Carnegie's donation of $25, 900.
Frank Scott, Wichita banker, gives
farming attention as a side line. He
raised 800 bushels of sweet potatoes
from 10 acres of land and sold them for
81 a bushel.
Jno. A. Fleener of Arkansas City,
has settled his claim for $1,000 for
damages sustained to his person while
being initiated into the Order of Pyra-
mids, and has accepted 5000.
S. P. Burnell, a well known old sol
der, and his wife, have sued eX-Repre-
sentative W. S. Bradbury for $4,000
on account of Bradbury's attack on the
old couple with a horsewhip recently.
The National Association of Live
stock Sanitary commissioners in session
at Buffalo, decided that their next an
nual meeting be held at Wichita, thanks
to Billy Bolton, who first suggested it
and worked for it.
Fred Wellhouse will clean up profit
Of 100000 or $25, 200 from his apple
CROP but then he has /, 24O acres of or
chard to gather from. Up to 1875 this
apple king worked for others, but
studied orcharding all the time. A
Leavenworth lawyer, L. b. Wheat, had
lot of rough land and took Wellhouse
into partnership and the big orchard
resulted. Governor Morrill's 500 acre
orchard is handled ~ Mr.. Wellhouse's
plan and it brings the ex-governor
large returns.
A township board in Greenwood
county has been ordered to appear be-
fore the supreme court for contempt of
court. They were ordered to levy a
tax to pay G judgment and have not
done it.
1t does not seem long to us old set
tiers back to the time when it was COM
mon belief that it was of no use to
plant fruit trees in Kansas very far
away from the bluffs of the Missouri
river, yet Rice county man is now
picking his crop of 10000 bushels of
apples.
Governor Stanley promptly offered
reward of $3.50 for the assassin who
shot George Montgomery, but the San
ia Fe had already offered 81, 600
George Montgomery, the secret SER
vice man employed by the Santa Fe,
who was killed in his own home, was
the son of preacher who lives in To-
peka.
The cotton crop of Montgomery coun-
ty will again be about $50 bales. 1t is
to be ginned at Independence. Cotton
is considered the most profitable crop
in the county this year.
During July, August and September,
fully 5000 cars of wheat, or about az
million bushels, passed through Atchi-
son. OF it all $500 cars were billed to
Atchison. Practically all of this wheat
was handled by the Missouri Pacific.
Rocks county has more wheat grow
ing than ever before. The county is