The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1905-10-20

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rate case which was set for, hearing
October 10 before the board of railwa.
commissioners, and the grocers' com
modify rate case hearing have boil
been postponed General Freight Ag
Koontz, of the Atchison, Topeka 4
Santa Fe road, an interested party, IL
quarantined at his Topeka home by Z
case of diphtheria in his family.
Salina-Tipton Road. = Things are
beginning to look up in railroad cir
cles here. A force of thirteen men
in charge Of e. D. Pike have start
ed to make two surveys for the pro
posed Salina-Tipton railroad. The
men have established their camp two
miles south of Osborne and will keep
on with, the survey work until it
is finished.
Lawrence Negro in Trouble.-Floyd
Walker, negro, who claims to live
in Lawrence, was arrested at Usage
City. charged with assault with in
tent to kill. He stuck blunt, dull
pocket knife blade into the throat OF
a woman who claims to be his wife.
They were engaged in fight. The
wound is not dangerous. Both were
taken to Jail at Lyndon this after
noon.
Big Farm Sale.-The biggest farm
! sale made in Franklin county in sew
eral months has just been closed up
| by the firm of Cowan, Filson & Mil
Ter. ]. S. Kicker has transferred his
920-acre farm three miles south and
little east of Ottawa to Mr.. Horner,
a wealthy Dunkard from Illinois. The
price paid is $4,000, a little more
than t$71 an acre. The farm is a fine
one, well improved
The Golden Egg.-Thc eggs annually
produced in Kansas bring in more
money tnan wool does, Or than sheep
do, and are greater earners of money
than the oats, potato, barley, flax,
sorghum or fruit crops. According to
the latest statistics the hens of Kansas
lay eggs worth 81, 226, Ill, which is the
interest at five per cent for one year
on S144.742, 220. There are not many
commercial interests which have a
larger business than this. Besides
egg raising is not generally a main
industry and principal objects but is a
side issue which occupies the spare
time of the farmer or of the women of
his family. So this important addi-
ton to the States agriculture income
is to great extent found money"
May Not Hunt at Will. - In some
way the impression has got out
among the farmers of Kansas that a
nonresident hunter carrying state
license has the right to hunt any
place he sees fit regardless of the
wish of resident property holders. AS
a matter of fact, a state license gives
a hunter no more protection than a
county license does. 1t conveys no
right whatever to hunt on farmers
premises unless the farmer is willing.
In effect, it provides that man can
hunt in The state providing he can
find a farmer who will let him. Com
plants are coming in from the west
ern part of the state that hunters with
state licenses are hunting where they
please, and that farmers cannot stop
them.
Irrigate at Garden City.-Congress-
man Victor Murdoch received tele-
gram from Washington notifying him
that the department of the interior
has approved the irrigation project at
Garden City. The farmers whose
places abut upon the ditch, which is
to be supplied with water, have in
corporated and complied with the
begin on the plant at once. The plant
will be one of the largest pumping
stations in the world The water viii |
be carried across the river to the
ditch. Professor c. S. Silchter, after
a test with the underflow, evolved this
plan of irrigation in that locality. 1t
was then approved by board of gov
eminent engineers. The farmers to
be benefited by the irrigation have
formed the association which is ne
cessary under the reclamation act. |
The final step was the approving Of
the plan by the secretary OF the in
terror.
Western Kansas Booming. - Fred
Knapp, secretary of the board of con-
troll, has just returned from Leoti.
Speaking of conditions in Western
Kansas, he said: Last Wednesday
morning when l got off the train at
Leoti, it seemed to me that the train
finished unloading. Twenty-six Of us
dismounted and twenty-one of that
number were homeseekers. From a
half-dozen to twenty-five land buyers
come in every day and was told that
fully rs per cent of them invest. Land
is selling from So to $40 per acre
which five years ago would hardly
bring the government price of $1.25
an acre. Crops have been good for
the last four or five years and If they
continue there is no telling at what
price that land will be selling with