Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-08-12
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

lola is to have a new brick schoo
house.
A big camp meeting is to be held a
Ellinwood.
Morton county farmers are hauling
broom corn and getting $50 ton.
Elm Mills is a great summer resort
Of Southwest Kansas Fishing and
politics.
The critical time for the Kansas
corn arrived three weeks ago and the
corn is still holding up its head look
ing for rain.
Barber county warrants are now
worth 100 cents on the dollar. A lot
Of eastern Kansas counties should
learn how to do it.
Chief Justice Doster's family will
soon move from Marion to Topeka.
have lived in one house in Marion for
twenty-seven years.
Hot winds have greatly damaged the
corn in Jewell county in the southwest
corner. The rest of the county can
stand a drouth for week longer A
northeast wind has greatly refreshed
the corn crop.
An Atchison young man who stays
up late seven nights in week and
dreams of his girl when asleep, is be-
ginning to look like a typhoid fever
victim. Love occasionally scatters =
skeleton to bleach on its way.
The dry hot weather of last week
damaged all growing crops and the
corn supply of Reno county will not
exceed 90 per cent In all the town
ships south of the two north tiers it
will average lesD than eight bushels to
the acre.
Republic county has had very hot
weather for week and no rain for
eight days, but no hot winds. Corn is
growing every day and the heat does
nat seem to affect it Prospects for an
enormous crop were never better. The
ground is in good condition.
A good rain fell over the southern
part of Greenwood county August End.
Crops in the southern part of the
county have not suffered from drouth
and will be equal to those of last year
But little rain has fallen in the north
ern portion, and the crop in that Sec
ton will be light.
The corn prospect in Brown county
and further west look very discourage
ing. The weather is intensely hot and
hot winds are doing vast amount of
damage What promised the largest
corr crop in the history of this section
ten days ago has all faded away at
this time, and unless cooler weather
eomss at Once The crop of corn will be
n failure,
The general passenger agent of the
R. e. NJ. road has arrived to collect
car load of grains, grasses, vegetables,
and other Decatur county farm cereals
which that company will put on ex-
hibition at the state fair in Iowa this
fall. The exhibits will also be made
in many county fairs in that state.
The purpose is to attract land buyers
TO come west.
Walter Bros. of the Denver Meat and
Live Stock company, who fed large
number of sheep in Norton county last
winter, write that they will be on
hand with double the sheep and sever
al hundred head Of cattle this fall.
which they will winter and feed on the
Prairie Dog. adjoining the town of
Almena. They also ask the farmers
to gather all the feed they can. Last
winter they fed about 10000 sheep in
Norton county.
Republic county has over zoo, 900
acres planted in corn and expects to
beat the record of any county in Kan.
sas in 1897, in number of bushels.
Most of the counties in the northern
tier are in tie corn belt this year. The
population of the county is over 1G, 1000.
The assessed valuation of railroad
property is $50, s67, and the assessed
valuation of personal property is $780,
O64, of which S179, 4s5 is exempt of
taxes, which is gain of more than
Ss5, 600 over 1896.
Shawnee county has the largest as
sessed valuation of any county in the
state and will pay into the state treas
ury as state taxes under the levy for
1897 the sum of s59,74 Wyandotte
county is next and will pay s4s,637.
Shawnee county paid S6s, 600 in 1896.
Wyandottc paid the same year s45, sos.
Haskell county pays the smallest
amount of state tax, s949. The total
amount of state taxes, according to
the figures made by the state board,
for 1897 is 81 1913. 054. The 1896 tax
was 81 1865, 40. The 1895 tax amount
ed 70 81. 4O2, 24O
One man at Abilene traded hcrsO
70 his brother for n niece of corn