Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-10-28
KANSAS ITEMS OF lNGAAEsT.

way Springs and sold at Milan, Sum
ner county.
Thirty head of early spring steei
calves brought S1S apiece at sale IL
Jewell county.
The citizens of Pratt have in thu
Farmers and Merchants bank Of tina
city over $4,000 in cash deposits.
Two hundred and eighty-fve mer
are now employed in the Santa FL
shops at Ottawa and the pay roll ha'
reached $4,000 per month.
The Harvey county Poultry associa
ton holds its second annual poultry
and pet stock show at Sedgwick, De
cember II. A big prize list is to be
provided.
Newton is still having trouble with
her waterworks system, notwithstand-
ing the recent extension. A new res
orvoir to hold between 100000 and
10000 gallons will be built.
No man is true. to Kansas when
he does not mark the prosperity items
of his home paper and send copies to
his friends in the east. This ought to
part of every Kansan's religion.
The Missouri & Kansas Telephone
company will build a branch line from
Wamego north into Nebraska, with
stations at Louisville, Myers Valley or
Broderick, Westmoreland and Blaine
The year-old baby of Frank Hagen
doffer, butcher at Everest, fell into a
bucket Of soap suds last week and was
drowned. The mother missed the
child, and the town was searched be-
fore it was found dead.
The Grand Island depot building to
be erected at Seneca will be 9Ox24 feet.
The depot will be built where the for
mer building was located unless the
citizens proceed at once to secure
building site further down town.
It has been several years since the
price of wheat has been so high as it
has been in the past month, and the
indications seem to be that it will stay
up at least for time, owing TO the
shortage of crops in foreign countries,
D. B. Calhoun, one OF the leading
farmers south vest of Caldwell, expert
mented with 1875 acres of wheat this
year. He hired the ground powed,
bought the seed and hired it sown, cut,
threshed and had it haulad to market
and even paid the board of his men
The expense was $3.50 SO. He sold the
wheat at "a cents, which cleared him
s1O1s SO, after saving out enough wheat
TO SOW again.
Ex-Lieutenant Governor Percy Dan
iels, of Kansas, has startling propo-
sition to make at the irrigation con.
gress to be held in Nebraska. His
plan is to tap the Missouri river at the
mouth of Milk creek in Montana and
turn its waters into canal that will
empty into the Red river of Texas.
The length of the canal would be 1,7OO
miles. The cost of the canal, in his
Judgment, would be 5000, OOO,O The
building of it would give employment
to the surplus labor of the nation, and
it would give the semi-arid of the west
an inexhaustible supply of water for
irrigation purposes
! The Rush Center Swimming station
will be shut down until such time as
the supply of milk will again justify
in operating it. For the past month
or two the milk supply has been fall
ing off steadily until last month, seY.
eral days but about $50 pounds of milk
were received. This does not justify
the company in operating the plant,
as it takes about two thousand pounds
of milk to make the plant pay expen-
ses. The big wheat crop is undoutt
edly more or less responsible for the
shut down, as many quit hauling milk
altogether that would have continued,
had not the wheat crop proved such a
Klondike to them.
Chancellor Snow, Of the University
of Kansas, has prepared a memorial TO
congress, TO be presented at its coming
session, asking that an appropriation
of 100000 be made to pay the claim
still pending at Washington for the
destruction of the old Free State hotel
at Lawrence, on May 81, 1856, by order
of United States Marshal Donaldson.
This is the claim given to the uuiver
sity by the New England Emigrant
Aid society, of Boston, when that or
gauization disbanded last spring. A
vigorous effort will be made to secur,
the final payment Of this claim, and
when secured to erect q memoria
building with the gift
Kansas millers say that the quality
of this years wheat is far better thar
the average for making -four.
The A. B. Clippinger slate ienc