The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1906-06-15

| year IN winch all OF Ine uiploIud
were issued for the year course. TIL
address to the class was made b.
Richard H. Jones, president of thu
Michigan State Normal.
Sale of Mill at Concordia.-The salt
of the Concordia roller mills was made
by J. H. Cline, of the Concordia Mil
ing Company. Consideration, $4,000
The new companys officers are
President, G. w. Huscher; vice-presi
dent and general manager, Wilmer
Bennett; secretary-treasurer, Claude
q. Curran.
Tornado Hits Town. = A tornado
struck Goessar, Is miles southwest
of Hillsboro. The main store and sew
eral dwellings were totally destroyed
and several persons were injured
Few details are obtainable as all the
wires are down. The doctors from
Hillsboro drove out to render as
sistance. Six and one-half inches rail-
here.
Kansas as 1t is Today.-The Kansas
of today is not the Kansas of say
ten, fifteen or twenty years ago. 1t
has turned out to be the best place
for some people to succeed that can
be mentioned People who left the
state years ago are now returning
and the western part of the state is
prospecting along with other portions.
There is only one reason-prosperity.
Good Crops in Lyon County-Crop
conditions, according to stories from
! farmers all over Lyon county, never
were better than at the present time.
Many light rains have fallen during
the past week. Corn and wheat have
fully recovered from the effects of the
dry weather last month. The wheat
acreage is the largest ever sown in
this county, and the crop will be big
one.
Lyon County Grow Bounties. -
The county paid $3O.95 in bounties
for crows At five cents each this
means GIG crows killed during the
month. At this rate the county will
soon be rid of crows. Most of the
crows are killed on Sunday. Nearly
every Monday morning ten or fifteen
small, medium and large sized boys,
each with from one to a dozen crows
come to the county clerks office and
ask for bounty.
Labette County Gaining. = Returns
from the various township and city as
SCISSORS for Labette county show a
healthy increase in the county, not
only in point of property valuation
but in population. 1t now has popu-
lation of 39,623, gain of 10 per cent
over last year. The largest gain was
made in Parsons, which now has
population of 15,400, as against 10000
last year. gain of nearly 100000
is shown in the total taxable prop
erty.
To Deport Insane Boy.-The state
board of control ordered the deporta-
ton to Germany of John Nekuda,
17-year-old boy who is now confined
in the Crawford county Jail, having
been declared insane. Nekuda has
been in America less than two years,
and has not taken out his naturaliza-
ton papers. The law requires the
deportation of such persons when
they become insane, and w. r. Mans
field, immigration agent at Omaha,
has ordered the government officials
to take charge of the young man.
To Make Wellington Dry. - The
city council continuing its crusade
against liquor selling passed an ordi-
nance prohibiting the selling of malt
or beer or any substitute or imitation
of these beverages in less quantities
than one gallon and forbidding its be-
ing drank on the premises under
heavy penalties. The ordinance is
an exact copy of a similar enactment
whose validity has been upheld by
the supreme court. A general ordi-
nance against liquor selling largely
copying the provisions of the Hurrel
act will be passed at the next meet
ing.
Potato Bugs in coffey County. -
Reports have reached Waverly from
all over the county that potato bugs
are injuring the potato crop. The
bugs are worse here than for many
years and their ravages are doing
much damage. Many are spraying
their potato vines, but the crop in this
county will be short Notwithstanding.
The late frost, dry weather and the
bugs combined have given the potato
crop a severe setback.
Women Cleaning up kinsley. - On
the main streets a number of promin-
ent Kinsley women accompanied by
number of children marched out
with flags and teams and went to
sweeping sidewalks, cleaning up rub
bish and old papers off the streets and
alleys. This new organization is the
"Clean Up Town Club"
Pittsburg Mines to Reopen. - It is