Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1896-06-04
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Dickinson county had a successful,
farmers institute.
In Smith county stands a church
built of sod taken from the surround
ing prairie.
Ed Howe of Atchison, has on a
camp ign against women joining lit
erary societies.
At q Kansas musical jubilee the
judge is called an adjudicator and is
paid extra for the title.
For some strange reason grains are
about two weeks ahead of time in wes-
tern Kansas this year, and sunfowers
are about two weeks bOhind.
One may see all kinds Of queer things
in Atchison. The other day the Globe
sighted man with a boquet in his
buttonhole and holes in his shoes.
The latest Topeka freak to claim
public attention is woman who re-
jected with scorn an offer of $4,000
spot cash for her interest in che An
neke Jams estate.
An order has come from the post
Office department in Washington al
lowing the mail-carTiers of Fort Scott
to dole out the letters in their shirt
sleeves and with a hot fatigued look
in their eyes.
Earl Brown, who has been under
the rigid discipline of a Methodist
college for year, will resume his law
studies in Judge Horizons Office at To
peks. Young Brown is shy, but some
day he will come into share of the 4
million dollars, which his father pos
sesses.
Miss BERTHE A. Rucker, of Mulvane,
won years scholarship in Washburn
college, at Topeka by making the best
grade of any pupil for a common
school diploma. Her general average
was O61l. She did not know of the
offered prize when the examination
was passed,
Paul Cheney, Of Chautauqua county,
put in an irrigating plant and got it
to working just two days before the
rains came. lie has a centrifugal
pump, fed by two and half inch
pipe and a twenty-one foot lift. The
pump threw 100 gallons per minute
for ten hours per pay and worked to
perfection. He put all the water on
an acre of ground, running it from a
lateral ditch down the cultivator fur
rows. 1t was his first experience.
John Harvey has a nice farm in Elk
county, but he wanted to be a mer-
chant. lie placed his farm in the
hands of Kansas City real estate
broker for trade Negotiations were
begun with merchant but John con-
cluded he would stay on his farm.
But the merchant wanted that farm,
and when Mr.. Harvey backed out he
was mad and has entered suit for 50, 900
damages. The damages are probably
hid away in the stock of goods. Any
man with good Kansas farm had
better keep it.
The Santa Fe road employs II, 1886
men in its various departments, of
whom $500 are in Kansas, and it pays
out $500, 900 q month or about $40, 900. =
600 yearly, one half of that sum in
Kansas, and its taxes are S1,2jO,OO
The hard times have effected the road
to the extent of laying off about 700.
1t has also worked to cut down the
wages Of others still employed, and it
includes laborers, coal miners, steel
workers, clerks and all grades of rail
road employees, besides other thous-
unds who are supplying these people
in various industries
Buffalo grass butter gets the top
market price in central Kansas.
The smallest man in the United
States probably lives in Elk county.
His name is Arthur Luce. He is 20
years old, weighs less than fifty pounds
and is only thirty-six inches tall. lie
lives with his parents on a farm one
half mile north of Upola and has en-
joyed good health all his life. When
he was about years of age his father
fell while carrying him, which is
thought to have been the cause of his
ceasing to grow. Although he suffer
ed no pain his body has not developed
any since that time He spends most
of his time in childish pursuits and
while rational and seemingly able tc
understand ordinary conversation, hC
lacks the mental development OF one
of his age.
In the east the Kansas man is look
ed upon as a hero. The eastern peo
pie do not believe a man can live in
Kansas without being picked up ant
on the ground by a cvclone nj lc,e-