The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1903-09-11
KANSAS COMMENT.


Gov. Bailey has appointed William j
Hooper, of Atchson rs second lieuten
Ant of X company, First regiment
Kansas National Guard. Nearly al
vacancies in the guard have now beer
tilicd
CoSTRACr WAS CROOKED. 1t is made
pnblic that the Topeka board Of educa
ton had revoked its contract with ;
school supply company for some S4, DOC
worth of seats and $1,000 worth Of
hiacliboards for the new city school
buildings on account of alleged crooli'
cdncss upon the part of certain mem
bcrs of the committee.
FRoM FARM TO YALE.-Miss Anna
Abel, II graduate of the state university
whose home is on farm east of Salina,
received word that she is the winner
of the Bulky fellowship prize at Yale,
which entities her to a years tuition
at Yale and $500 in cash. She Will
leave for Yale this month. Miss Abel,
arship in Columbia university.
EMPRESS OFFICE ROBBED. The trans
fer Office of the Wclls-Fargo express
company at the Frisco station at Co.
lumbus was robbed while the transfer
agent was OH the platform and $500
in silver taken. A package containing
$500 in currency was just beneath the
bag Of silver but it was not taken.
The safe was unlocked. Two valuable
watches were stolen from the same safe
Il week before.
In ScoTT COUNTY. The crop condi'
tions in Scott county were never bet
ter. The wheat, barley and oats crop
was cXcclen. and is in stack. In some
places iit the county thrcshing has
commenced The wheat will yield
from 20 to 80 bushels per acre and the
quality is fine. The corn crop will be
larger than usual and the cane, millct
and hay crops, too, never were better
and more abundant.
MITCHELL COUNTY CORRESPONDING to
continued wet weather farmers are
making but little progress with their
threshing. The grade of wheat mar
kctcd is low from the same cause The
yield per acre seems to average about
Is bushels, many fields making as high
rs % and a few Us low. as TO-. The
prospect for corn never was better at
this season Some of it is late, but all
looks fine. There are 5000 acres of
corn in the county.
JOHNSON COUNTY CRors. Corn is be-
low the average and will yield about
50 per cents wheat average yield Is
about 12 bushels. Potatoes on the
Kaw bottom are practically ruined.
Bluegrass seed is yielding about BUSH
els to the acre; thirds crop. Oats
go so bushels, or about rs per cent of
the average. Timothy hay is fine
yield. Glover average, so per cent or
more; millet, 90 per cent The apple
crop is below the average.
A MORTGAGE INCIDENT Gard
went to Harper county about 20 years
ago. He Was poor and borrowed the
means with which TO improve his land
He could not meet the interest and Of
fcred to turn over the farm 20 cancel
the mortgage, which offer the mortga-
gee refused to accept. Then good crops
began to help him out, and now he is Il
rich man. He not only owns the old
home place, which the mortgage COM
pany would not have, but also several
other well improved farms i'll that vi
entity.
MANGLED AHD SCAIDED. Charles
Wilson, of Chase county, was fright
fully injured by the explosion of a
threshing machine engine six miles
cast of Emporia. His right arm was
blown off at the shoulder, his left arm
badly mangled and he was terribly |
scaldcd.
Lucas ELEVATOR BURNED. The |
Morrison Il Co.'S elevator burned at |
Lucas with about 5000 bushels of |
wheat. The fire originated in the en-
zine rooms, the elevator being operated |
BIZ n gasoline engine.
TEACHERS PAY PAIsED.-Aftcr
supplemental special examination of
teachers in Dickinson county to fill up |
the lack of thirty teachers, the teach
crs' salaries were raised. The raise
brought up the average $3.50 month
and increased the total pay of the
teachers on the county s., 500 over last
year.
FoR AN ALI ARoU;,D MANOR $50
n month Lawrence expects one man to
cnre for fifteen acres of trees and parks,
do the ianitor work at the court house
and help around the fire station.
LIGHT PLAST BURNED.-The electric
lipht plant at Horton is destroyed by
fire A chest of tools near a door was
the ONLY thing that was saved. The
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