The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1902-03-21
nay is selling In Wichita at $40 a

have cut out foot Dali tnls year.
There is n case of small pox at the
Kansas penitentiary. A guard has ii
Alexander Mcmillan, Cloud county
farmer, has lost 100 hogs from cholera
Kansas university has received ma
chinery with which to produce liquio
air.
Wichita has decided to hold another
industrial exposition and fall festival
this year.
Glasco, n Cloud county town with a
population of 500, has a city park five
acres in extent
Wholesalers say that more snuff is
sold in Lindsborg than in any other
town in the state.
The shortage of water at Olathe is at
an end and the deaf and dumb school
is fully supplied
The Wyandotte Coal company while
drilling for coal in Kansas City, Kas.,
struck SLrOHg HOW vi gas.
Charles Aziere, a wealthy farmer, OF
Nemaha county, was thrown from his
vehicle and died from injuries received.
President Baker, of the Topeka street
railway announces that two miles more
of track and seven new cars will be
added this summer.
The State Agricultural college is to
holds school for judging horses March
10 to 90. Owners of good horses are
invited to bring them.
The negroes of Miami county are to
hold mass meeting at Paola on March
90, to discuss the industrial, moral and
political conditions of their race.
NJ. l.. Riddle, of Chetopa, Kansas,
whose three children were killed in
railroad wreck in Texas, has settled
with the railroad company for $lO,-
900.
The late John P. Altgeld, OF Illinois,
once worked as railroad section hand
in Kansas. He then went to An,lrew
county, Mo-, taught school, read law,
and was elected county attorney.
Phillips county assessors report, the
acreage of wheat larger than ever be-
fore and that all of it is in fine shape
except the volunteer wheat. They say
the prospects for large yield were
never better in March.
VIM. Trembly and Ed. White, of
Kansas City, Kas., have been awarded
medals of honor, given them for their
conspicuous gallantry in swimming
the Bag-Bag river. They were mem
bers of the Twentieth Kansas.
II. Brothers, of Milford, Geary coun-
ty, is dead, aged 70 years. Mr.. Bro
theirs was a veteran of the Texas rev.
olution, Mexican war, the Seminole
war of 1S35-43 and the civil war and
was Texas ranger for ten years. He
was one of the oldest settlers of this
county, coming here IN 1896.
Western Kansas is handicapped in
the production Of sugar beets by the
lack of labor. 1t keeps man on his
knees practically all summer for each
five acres and men cannot stand it.
Over the line in Colorado the work is
done by Germans and Russians and
the children work long hours.
Prof. Bartz, Of Kansas University,
has analysed water taken from a well
at Abilene at q depth of 200 feet. 1t
contains II, 600 grains of mineral mat
ter in comparison to $4,000 grains in
the Dead Sea water, while ocean water
carries only about 1000 grains. 1t is
the only strong muriatic acid water in
the state, and also contains one and
one fourth pounds of salt per gallon.
In Stevens county where there are
large pastures fenced with wire, the
fences are assessed at from So to SIS
mile.
Captain 5. A. Harvey, of the card
Kansas, negro, has been admitted to
practice in the supreme court. He is
preparing to go to the Philippines to
practice law there.
Edwin Dangerfeld, who was drowned
at the sinking of British steamer in a
collision on the English coast, was a
citizen of Scranton, Kansas, where he
had lived more than 20 years.
Although Kansas has 10, 219, AGO acres
of land under cultivation, it still has
millions of acres, just as good, as yet
untouched by the pillow.
Gypsum City has had a. $40, 200 fire
which burned seven business houses in
Guiding livery barn. People living
over the stores saved only their night
clothes
The Mankato Monitor says that more
alfalfa will be sown in Jewell county
than ever before and that it will not be
long before every farmer will have Z