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

nOlu carnival september anu VI
Randall Bundy, is years old, wa'
oiling windmill at Ellsworth and fel
rs feet. He died.
The ringleaders of the threshine
gang which raised trouble at Colwich
have been arrested.
Sweet corn, cane. kafr corn and SOY
beans are being planted to large ex'
tent in Linn county.
Fredonia and Beloit have each seven
rural delivery routes. No other Kan
sas town has so many. Topeka has sin
w. II. Barnes state secretary of hor'
ticulture, is to speak on ''Orcharding in
Kansas" before the National Apple
Shippers convention at Toronto, Can
ada.
Miss Julia r. Pearce. a Kansas wo-
man. has been appointed an analysist
of soil in the department of agriculture,
Washington. She got the position ls,-
cause of her experience.
There is plenty of stock feed in Atchi-
son county. Many corn fields will
turn out 80 to 40 bushels to the acre,
and the crop of the county will average
10 bushels Pastures are renewed
jackson county farmers are encour-
aged as their corn will make more or" in
than was expected and an abundance
of fodder Many of them are planting
beans. kafr corn and COW peas.
Corn in Allen county is expected to
turn out from one-third to one-fourth
a crop. Tho wheat crop is the best the
county ever had. The rains have re-
vived the grass and there will be
enough of forage.
A mass meeting at Fort Scott of $500
people adopted resolutions demanding
that Rev Frazer and others who are in
sisting upon the enforcement of the
prohibitory law leave the city. Ar
rangements were made for a committee
of 80 to see to the execution of the res
olution.
Both Calvin Titus and Albert Sonich-
son are orphans under the guardian
ship of the probate judge of Sedgwick
county. Titus scaled the wall of Pekin
and Sonichson was with Lieutenant
Gilmore prisoners of Filipinos. He es-
cared and was the main feature in the
final rescue of the Gilmore party.
Three girls of Wellington: Terra Cor
der, Lillian and Clara French. were in
a buggy which was run into by a hucll-
ster wagon. The runaway resulted in
very dangerously injuring Miss Corder,
and severely injuring Clara French.
Lillian French was thrown into the
air eight feet but was not injured
Harper county is expected to have
this year 5000 to 1000 bushels of corn.
1t had a bumper wheat crop. Kafr
corn and cane are largely planted. The
general practice of grazing winter
wheat makes the demand for other
feel small. This is the most profta BILE
yea. for the farmers of Harper county
OF the 30 years of its history since set
Element.
There are quite number of citizens
OF Kansas who hold some Office, who
have drawn claims in Oklahoma. There
are others who took notaries' commits
sions while there and in applying for
the.l declared themselves citizens of
Oklahoma. They now have to meet
thu legal opinion, which seems to be
that, taking such commits
sions and maintaining the required res
idence on claims, in either case ends
their citizenship in Kansas, and also
vacates their official positions.
The Wichita packing house is work
ing on extra time to supply the new
towns in Oklahoma with sausage and
boiled ham.
The regular annual wheat jubilee at
Wellington will occur September "a to
2s. Sumner county produced from
1889 to 1900, 3s, 1884 .51s bushels of wheat
For several years Sumner county pro-
duced one ner cent of the crop of Amer
lea, and for the past ten years has pro-
duced more wheat than any other coun-
ty in the United States. and holds that
record for 1901.
The Culver Touring mill at Salina
burned while it was closed for repairs.
TIE loss is about $4,000.
Butler county had only 10000 acres
of wheat. 1t does not claim to rank as
a wheat county. The county has lG. 900
acres of alfalfa. The corn acreage this
season was 156. 900 acres. some of which
will make from * to = a crop Then
there is 10000 acres of kafir corn and
10000 acres of sorghum which have all
held up well and will make good crops.
Thousands of acres of wheat and rye
will be sown for pasturage.
There is plenty of forage in Wabaun-
see county. Farmers planted forage
crops in the dryest time which is now