The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1901-08-16

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in Jewell county was taken last week.
An Arkansas City carpenter claims to
have been offered $40 "A day to work <,
Lawton.
Miss Helen Riley, of Empire City,
aged Is years, was drowned while
bathing.
G.. n. Tucker raised PA bushels OF
wheat on 81 acres of his Dickinson
county farm.
An elevator at Smolan. Saline county,
bur.ted spilling 5000 bushels of wheat
on the ground.
A general conference of insurance
agents of Kansas held a two days SEES
sion at Mcpherson.
Thieves in the southern part of Sa-
line county kill cattle in pastures and
haul them away in wagons.
1t is said that lightning started ten
prairie fires in Gray county, three Of
which did considerable damage.
The Katy ticket sales at Parsons il,
July amounted to 81. 1891 more than
double the sales in July last year.
John W. Corey, of Montgomery coun-
ty, has 10 acres of corn which he eX-
poets to yield 80 bushels to the acre.
The KanGas & Texas Coal Company,
a Topeka concern, has placed an order
for ten inch drills for prospecting for
oil in the shale district of Western Kan
sas.
Frank Millillen, of Santa Fe is to be
appointed register of the Dodge City
land Office. says the Topeka Capital,
and l.. j. Pettijohn, of Garden City, re-
ceiver.
The new Santa Fe machine shop at
Topeka which is being stallcd out, is to
be So feet long and 1874 feet wide.
Preparations are being made to lay the
foundations.
Labor day. September 2, will be OBJ
serves! in Pittsburg with a jubilee in
celebrating industrial peace. Thirty
thousand miners and laborers of every
craft will assemble.
The farmers of Dickinson county are
cleaning off their corn land with bind
ers preparatory to putting in wheat
with cultivators. Those who aIc
through threshing are blowing their
wheat ground for the next crop.
One jointist in Topeka had S separate
trials in one day and the sentences he
received were 5000 and go days in jail.
AS fast as "A sentence was pronounced
he produced an appeal bond and the
court called the next case against him.
When the picnic dinner of the old
settlers reunion at Halstead was over
and f. W. Hoch was introduced as the
principal speaker, there were 5000 peo-
pie in the park. Mr.. Hoch's address
was noted by his cheerful turning of
the bright side of everything to the
front.
In the southeastern counties the most
of the wheat will be sown this year in
August and will begin to provide pas
turage in September and keep doing
the same until January Nearly every
farm has field of kafir corn, of sor
ghum and of millet: ali of them coed
crops.
In 1881 there was practically no rain
from June 10 until September 10.
Wheat and apple crops failed. Corn
was worth 81. 90 bushel and no oae
bought Gny because they could nat.
Yet Kansas had ten years of good crops
that year and got rich by
reason of them,
Secretary F. d. Coburn tells the Min
neapolis millers that Kansas produced
last year 60 per cent more wheat than
Minnesota while this year it is ''out of
sight"
Coffey county farmers are keeping
their stock. Hog buyers can find none
offered for sale. Besides getting the
best wheat crop ever raised there was a
large crop of fax. Several carloads of
bluegrass seed have been shipped out
at from 81 to SO bushel. The apple
crop is good. Much ground is being
planted in forage crops.
Governor Stanley has announced that
he would appoint the ten district judges
under the biennial election law shorty
so that they will have time to wind up
their cases in court before assuming
their places on the bench.
Fort Scott dealers say they are selling
more seed than they did in the spring
consisting of millet. turnips and Yankee
corn which natures in 30 days. 1t
makes better fodder than western corn.
Many cattle have been shipped and
there will be feed to spare in Bourbon
county.
Thaddeus Hyatt. an early friend of
Kansas. died last week at Sandown,
Isle of Wight. at the age of Sc years.
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