Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-05-13
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

cattle were marketed in Kansas Cit.
last week.
This state is getting ungodly. Il
every big town in the state photograph
ers do their heaviest business on Sun
day.
AS soon as an Atchison man fall intC
an Office that pays him more than
cornbread Lying he goes to Spirit lak'
to fish.
The state pumping station estab
lished by the late irrigation commits
sion at Goodland is to be sold at public
auction May 18th.
When Mrs, Cleveland OF Pratt shot
her husband last week at Pratt he was
so anxious that no one should know it
that after falling to the ground he
arose and walked home with her, FIVE
blocks.
In Jewell county just now it is com
mon thing to see two teams on one side
of a big field gathering corn; behind
them two stock cutters and bringing
up the rear couple of listers planting
for the new crop.
The next great improvement which
the Santa Fe will begin in Kansas will
be the construction of $4,000 grain
elegator at Winfield. Work on this
will be begin at once and will be push
ed to completion as rapidly as posi-
BILE
Ritter Bros, of Chetopa have Just
broken ground for new 5O-barrel
Touring mill with meal and feed at
tachments. Work will be pushed and
they are expecting to have it in opera
ton by the time new wheat comes in
again.
Six new jam brakes for the driving
wheels of locomotives have been receiv-
ed at the round house at Wellington.
They will be put on the engines i'm
mediately. The Santa Fe is fitting up
all their engines with these excellent
brakes.
Although the wet weather has inter.
iered with the work on the irrigation
ditch at Great Bend TO some extent,
the first mile is completed with the ex-
ception of the riprap on the lower side.
The working force has been increased
to over eighty men.
Assessor Herr has made his return
en- Abilene. The population is 1891,
gain of IS in the year. The taxable
property is 800, 500 as against 1907, sos.
The assessed value isS113, 23O as against
sl92,6O3 The largest decrease is on
notes which decreased s11 1000.
The cattle business in eastern Colo
RADIO and western Kansas has reached
high water mark. There is more de-
mand for calves, stockers and feeders,
and they are selling at higher prices
thar at any time In the past ten years.
The shipment of fat cattle 10 market is
large.
The Golfer county normal institute
Will be held in Burlington commence
ing May 81 and closing July 3. Prof.
$. w. Black, principal Of the Pittsburg
schools, will be conductor. Ex-County
Superintendent George Scheneck and
Prof j. NJ. Pieratt, of Coffey county
will assist.
The grand council of the southwest
ern division of the united commercial
travellers will hold its annual meeting
in Leavenworth on May IA and Is.
Arrangements are being made to en-
terrain $50 visitors L. E. Brewster of
Leavenworth, grand counsellor, will
preside, and Mayor ]. D. Edmond, of
Leavenworth, who was formerly a
travelling man and member of the or
der, will hand over the keys of the city
to the guests.
Fabian Lagree, we'll known mem
Der of French colony in the vicinity
of Moundridge, Mcpherson county, has
come into the possession within the
last few weeks of the income Of large
fortune. Lagree is now a man of al.
most 20 years of age. He is French
Canadian by birth but has been a mem.
Der Of the Moundridge French colony
for a number of years The fortune
which has recently come his posses
sion is said to be $4,000 1t comes to
him through his sister who years ago
went to Montana, where she engaged
in the cattle business She has grown
immensely wealthy and her recent gift
to her brother is only one of the sever
al he has received from her. Not long
ago she visited him at Moundridge, it
is said, and finding that he had heav-
lily mortgaged farm, she paid the en-
tire indebtedness and gave him the
farm unencumbered.
Topeka might catch that bar-keeper
in that real open saloon and have him
on exhibition in the Historical Rooms
at the State House
This is a wonderfully cool spring in