Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-11-11
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.


today.
The machinery for a big vitrifed
brick yard is being laid down in Cher
ryvale.
There is Buzzard in the peniten-
tiary recently sent from Waubaunsee
county.
The onion crop of Meade county Is
threshing out three hundred bushels
to the acre.
Parsons people have 100 men putting
in the mains for the gas from the Neo-
desha oil fields.
The registration at Newton is 1899,
being ninety more than a year ago.
Newton is growing.
A Vitri6ed brick plant at CherryVale
will be fred with natural gas 1t will
be the largest in the state.
A farmer living near Centralia has
on exhibition stock OF corn ON winch
are six well developed ears.
The Kansas Building Loan league
will make a demand for better state
law goyernoring associations.
The Kansas University football
eleven won out over the Iowa eleven.
Outside of Lawrence no one cares.
Independence had large fire on Nov.
9, in which ten head of horses, togeth-
er with wagons, buggies, machinery
and several thousand bushels of corn
were consumed.
Ex-senator John j. Ingalls,, of Kan
sas, will have quarters in Washington
during this session of congress. He
denies that he intends making the Cap
itol his future home, but that he ex-
poets to do considerable writing during
the session.
The Newton mills broke the record
last month in the output of -four. Six.
teen ears have been exported. The
two mills are kept running all the
time, the aggregate capacity being 525
barrels day. The capacity of the
new mill will be 400 barrels day.
The compilation of figures from the
quarterly statements of Kansas banks
made by Commissioner Breidenthal
shows in Kansas there is less borrowed
money than at any time during the
past few years. The amount now
against the banks is S29s, 723. ST. The
amount loaned by the banks is Sl7,-
14S,041.O1. The percentage of the le-
gal reserve is so 49, The total resour-
ces of the banks now amount to S33,-
34s, 66s SO.
Nine out of twelve persons who par
took of supper given at the McReady
ranch, near Manchester recently, were
taken violently sick before midnight.
The symptoms were cramp and pain in
the stomach with excessive vomiting.
A panic ensued for some time but
finally the remedies applied proved eff
fectual and today all were able to be
about except the elder Mrs MeReady.
The cause of the trouble is not known
but it is supposed to have been due to
canned goods of some kind.
Some time ago the body of a man,
supposed to have been murdered, was
found in straw stack near Arkansas Ci-
ty. AS yet he has not been identified
The DESCRIPTION of the body corresonds
to that of Lyman Smith, who left the
home of his brother, east of Mulvane
to go to Oklahoma. Nothing had been
heard Of him since then, and his rela-
tives there have instituted a search An
effort will be made TO have the body
of the murdered man exhumed. When
he left there he had $500 in money and
a good team and wagon. The suppose
ton is that he has been murdered for
his money lie had not lived in Null
vane for several years, but had been
visiting relatives there before he start
ed on his last trip.
While out hunting last week Mr..
Isaac A. Wright, real estate dealer of
Kansas City, shot and killed rabbit
with we'll developed horns Funny
was an ordinary cotton tail' and
the horns, which are three-quar-
tiers of an inch long and rough and
hard like those of goat, are less than
an inch apart just in front of the rab-
bits left ear. The first horn IL close
to the left ear and the other is just
above the left eye. Both are slightly
to the left of the center of the head
The horns are regular in shape anC
well developed. Their size and sub
stance dismiss the thought that they
could be mere blemishes on the skin
When the remarkable specimen hai
been mounted Mr.. Wright will pre-
serve it as curiosity.
Neodesha will issue $1,000 in bonds
and build city water works.
As is usual in Kansas the police madu
all kinds of threats about what they