The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1901-06-07

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All WdltitEo dWOht thS
other day to find herself an heiress.
Farm values have increased over so
per cent in Kansas in the past year.
Mcpherson has strong hopes of get
ting the new Swedish Lutheran col
lege.
On the Blackstone ranch in Chase
county, 1,150 acres of alfalfa are ready
for harvest.
Seventy per cent of the farms in
Kansas are owned by the men who
live on them.
An atrocious Central Kansas poet
makes abilene" rhyme with thin"
and "fell in"
Auditor Cole reports $4,000 acres OF
vacant school land to be available for
wheat raising.
At Leavenworth the Missouri river
has averaged lower this spring than
any year since 1855.
An Indian girl, a pupil at the Has
kell institute is running ahead in the
most-beautrul-lady contest.
Saiina is getting ready to buy med
ais for the boys of Company NJ,
Twentieth Kansas regiment.
A Caldwell man who had two. ribs
broken in a humiliating manner Is
feeling very sore about it.
The new catalogue of the State Ag-
ricultural college shows an enrolment
of 1921. an increase of 227.
The blackberry trees around Burr
Oak are being destroyed by creature
resembling the alfalfa worm.
Trouble over class colors in Win
field resulted in five black eyes and
two cases in the police court.
A little sod house up in Smith
county contains a piano worth five
times as much as the residence.
Ness county comes to the front with
a story of bunch of rye thirty-eight
inches high with five inch heads.
One of the wheat kings of Western
Kansas is ]. A. Franz, who has LOO
acres which promise a full crop.
An ex-warden says there are 1000
convicts in the Kansas penitentiary,
of whom about fifteen are guilty.
A man died in Leavenworth a few
days ago at the age of SO years, and
he used both tobacco and liquor.
The state agricultural college is
booming the Soy bean. said to be val
liable food for all stock raised on the
farm.
While two men in Winfield were
attending a meeting Of the Anti-Horse
Thief association their bicycles were
stolen.
Peabody io working up sentiment in
favor of Fourth of July demonstra-
ton that will interest, elevate and
instruct"
Barton county is already complain
ing of a shortage of harvest hands
and a surplus of hands that are snow
shovelers and ice cutters by profess
sion.
Pleasanton people are in mourning
over the death of two of it's popular
boys. Harry Norman and Todd Blakey,
who were drowned in the river east OF
town.
A 10 cent admission fee is being
charged all visitors to the Lansing
penitentiary. Considerable revenue
from this source is being made for
the state.
A Paola man has sold two black
wolves to the Geological garden in
New York for 500. The commission
ers of Miami county only offered 81
for the beasts.
Senator Wulfekuhler Of Leaven-
worth owns a 66.000acre ranch in
Wallace and Sherman counties, in
closed In seventy-nine miles of fence.
There are over 5000 head of cattle on
the ranch.
Since it has been discovered in New
York that a geranium plant will die
when sprayed with alcohol, the bibul-
GUS men in Great Bend have resolved
to quit using alcohol as an external
application.
Lucy Leidigh. Hutchinson high
school graduate, has been neither alb
sent nor tardy during her twelve
years course. The young lady was
presented with a gold medal by the
school board.
This class yell comes from Kansas:
And a beevo, and bivo; and a
beevo bivo, bum. Bum kill rat trap
bigger than cat trap, bum kill rat
trap bigger than a cat trap, cannibal,
cannibal, zip boom bum, Newton high
school, 1901"
A Kansas man who had been away
from home on a spree for week re-
turned the other day expecting to find
his wife in tears, but found her with
her skirts half mast, cleaning house
and softly singing to herself. Il Don't
Care if He Never Comes Back"
A story is being told OF Wilson
county farmer who caught a chinch
bug. He fed him poison. cracked
him in the doors and froze him in ice.
The bug always came Up smiling
fendish smile and looking at the man
with a sardonic eye. Finally he car
ried the bug TO foundry and dropped
it into a ladlo of melted iron. Then
he went off thuGkliAg. Fifteen years
afterwards his wife brcke q skillet
she had been using io- some years
and that chinch bug hopIed out and
asked the nearest read TO 1 corn field.
Clay Center is an odd Gown. Miss
Wedd was married day %. Mr.. Nc
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