The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1904-07-29

one of the Oldest residents of Saline
county, is dead at his home north
of Salina. He was aged n years. Mr.
Gardner was native of Rhode Island
but came west in 1859, when he went
to the gold fields in Colorado. He
later returned to Saline county, and
settled down on a claim on the Saline
river. In 1864 he was driven away by
the Indians, and remained away for
two years, when he returned and has
lived on the place since.
No Nearer Settlement.-At Pitts
burg the miners and operators are
no nearer a settlement in regard to
the new scale than before. The min
ers are maintaining that the operators
can afford to increase their pay and
have statistics which they claim show
| that the cost of living has increased,
and the operators are better prepared
| to pay more The operators, however,
stand pat in their declaration that
they cannot pay more than their COM
petitors in the Eastern districts.
"HSdl ~ III
has begun in several localities and
the yield of wheat is not as large as
was expected. That so far reported
averages about ten bushels to the
acre, and the grain tests about Sc
pounds to the bushel. Black rust,
fore harvest, is the agent that did
the damage.
Wheat Tests Light.-Two hundred
bushels of the first of this years
crop of wheat to be threshed in this
county has been sold at Junction. 1t
tested only fifty-four pounds to the
bushel, and came from one of the best
pieces of upland in the country. The
grain was all very wet, even before
the rains of the past few days.
Phone Officers EIected.-The annu
al meeting of the Northern Kansas
Telephone association held at Con-
cordia, elected the following officers
for the ensuing year: j. M. Doyle,
Belleville, president; c. w. Baldwin,
Osborne, vice president; G. G. Hill,
Concordia, treasurer; d. c. Tyler, Cliff
ton, secretary.
Hurt BY Mule.-William Britain,
son of T. Britain, a farmer several
miles northeast of Perry, Kan, was
found in an unconscious condition
with his skull crushed. He was hand
ling a pair of mules and the SUPPOSE
ton is that he was kicked by one of
the animals. 1t is thought he cannot
recover.
Rain At Atchison-A fine rain fell,
and the farmers say that while the
rain will keep them out of their
fields, it is timely in that it will soften
the encrusted ground caused by the
beating rains that had previously fall
en-. The ground is so hard that 1t
was almost impossible to pillow.
Wet In Brown county.-On July 90
nearly two inches of rain fell AS the
farmers here are in the midst of har-
vest this wet weather will cause con-
siderable damage. Not more than
half the wheat has been cut and the
corn is also in bad shape on account
of the continuing rains.
Bond EIection-The special election
held in Eureka in the proposition to
Issue school bonds for new twenty
five thousand dollar high school build
ing resulted in the carrying of the
bonds by majority of nine votes. 1t
was the most holly contested local |
election in the history of the town.
Detailed BY Attorney General
Judge S. S. Ashbaugh, of Wichita, has
been detailed by the attorney general
to take the testimony for Kansas in
it's suit against Colorado to enjoin Colo
radios appropriation of waters from
the Arkansas river.
Reviving ranae.-President Ira
Jones of the National Grange Society |
spoke to farmers at the Grange pic
mic. The Grange order is being re-
vived among the farmers of Garrett.
Atchison At Decentralization
has been represented at the South |
Dakota land drawing by three hundred |
men and about twenty women.
Log Roling.-At Salina bills are out
the Woodmen picnic,
which will be held in Oakdale park,
the 2Sth of this month.
cowley County Wheat.-Wheat that
under favorable conditions would test
from co to G2 pounds. is showing from
SO to Sc The market is from GO to
CT cents per bushel.
Lutheran League To Meet-The
second annual convention of the Kan
sas conference Lutheran League will
be held at Kackley, Kans., August 10,
20 and 81.
Overcome BY Heat.-W. H. Repp, a
laboring man in Eureka. while unload
ing household goods into a car at
the Missouri Pacific yards, was over
come by heat.
Drowned While Swimming.-Daniel
Brinkmeyer, son of Mr.. and Mrs. ].
F. Brinkmeyer, was drowned in the
Wakarusa river five miles south of
Lawrence. He was swimming with
s.1..o.o1 o+bor lode h.,t fhav could NOT