The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1903-08-21
KANSAS COMMENT.

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CANEY STRIKES GAs.-At a depth of
1000 feet gas flow was struck at
Caney which had n pressure estimated
at 500 pounds.
UNPRECEDENTED INSANITY. There
were six cases before the Cowley county
probate court in two weeks, and as
many more in the preceding four weeks
BROOM CORN DoING WELL.-Since the
rains this crop is doing we'll in the
broom corn district of Rice county, al
though the average is smaller than
usual. The first pulling is begun.
LARGE WHEAT FIELDS. Walsh Bros,
of st. Peter, Graham county had an
acreage of over 1000 acres of wheat,
and the yield is estimated at not less
than 25 bushels. John Ashcroft, OF
Moreland, raised over 500 acres of
wheat
5ToBACCo FOR CoNvICTs. The state
pays $3.50 for tobacco for the convicts
at Lansing. The state buys the to-
bacco in the natural state and manu-
features chewing tobacco. Last month
the state spent $50 for licorice to flavor
the product.
RIDING ON SIDEWALK. Chief Burt of
the Wichita police has posted u notice
that hereafter parties arrested for rid
ing bicycles on sidewalks would be
locked up with DRINKS, thieves, ETC.,
instead of leaving their bikes as bonds,
as has been the practice.
SIX THOUSAND ACRE CRor.-A. j.
Rice, of Graham county, had in 5000
acres of wheat scattered over 81 quar-
ter sections, in spots ranging from 100
acres to q 900 acre field. His average
yield is estimated at % bushels per
acres TO carry this crop to market it
will take 22O cars with 600 bushels
each.
BEST APPLES IN KANSAS. F.
Schell the superintendent of the state
horticultural exhibit at st. Louis, says
he will have to depend principally on
Southwestern Kansas for apples for
the exhibit at the exposition. AS the
fair opens next May this years fruits
must be secured and put in cold stor-
age, until next years crops mature.
PRISON TwINE PLANT. product
this year is 40 per cent greater than in
1902, and it has all found ready mar
ket. There was considerable of the
Irvine being shipped to farmers, and
for which the farmers mad paid, (which
was damaged in the flood in June and
the prison officials are trying to assist
the farmers in trying to get tho matter
adjusted with the railroads.
RUMoRs OF COMPROMISES. There have
been floating rumors that the case
against the Dewey ranchmen under ar
rest for killing the Berrys, homestead
ers inside the Dcweys' fenced pastures,
was about to be compromised by Mr..
Dewey by his buying all of the Berry
interests in Cheyenne county If all the
remaining Berrys would leave. The
story is as positively denied as it is as
serted.
PENITENTIARY BEICK.-"Thc kiln at
the Lansing prison is making good
brick" said Governor Bailey, after
recent visit there, "but we need more
skilled labor there than we have at
present. This business can be dcvel-
oped until Kansas will have the best
state institutions in the west. State
buildings can be erected at very
small cost when our brick is prison
manufactured"
LOOK OVER THE LINE.-The directors
of the Arkansas Valley Interurban
Railway started from Wichita on auto
mobiles for trip over the proposed
route to Arkansas City. All of the
seventeen directors said they would go
and machines were provided for the
journey.
BEST OF, THE FIVE The Neosho
Falls Oil 81 Gas Co., has struck sand at
500 feet in No. well on the Reeves
tract This is the fifth oiler for this
company and every indication points
10 it's being the best of the five.
SENATOR LONG REsTIgG. Accom-
panied by Mrs. Long he has gone TO
the mountains for an extended period
OF rest. After his speech at Cawller
CITY the senator concluded that he
wasn't able to make any more speeches
this season. II was the first one he
made since his recent illness and it al
most wore him out.
To ExTERMNATE PEsTs.-The COM
missioners of Barber county have levied
taxes of one to three mills upon seven
townships for the determination of
prairie dogs
HARvEsTERs HoMEsTEADISe.-Many
harvest hands from other states are
t-.zto,l~ ~ sIa Colnv and