Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-10-14
KANSAS ITEMS OF. INTERE5T.


Newton claims to be railroad Gen.
ter.
lola had population OF s765 on Sep
TENDER 81.
An organized band is stealing horses
near Independence.
Leavenworth is looking for counter
feiters during the reunion.
A number of Kansas postoffice fights
are being settled by popular vote.
The private supply of all water con-
sumers has been shut off at Yelling
ton.
Galena produced s54,71 worth of
zinc and lead ore last week; twice as
much as Joplin.
Scarcity of water for drinking pur-
poses is reported in parts of southeast
Kansas.
The good crops and demand for
everything that was raised has placed
the State of Kansas in the column of
wealth.
The latest trick among frauds is to
go to a bicycle repair shop, pay for re-
pairs and take the wheel. Repairers
are getting onto it
When the fire boys at Dodge City
have nothing else to do they get out
two pieces of the big hose, two nozzles
and attach them to hydrants, turn on
the water and have fight.
An exchange says: The Kansas sun
Is getting to be very red in the west,
just as it disappears. The air is full
of fine dust. One of the worst drouths
in the history of the state is on. But
no grumbling. Grumbling has gone
out of fashion.
Acknowledgement Boyle has given an
opinion in which he says that the tick
cts in the various counties this year
must be placed on the ballot according
to the relative strength of the various
parties in the counties in the last cleo
ton.
bright Abilene boy leased his
father for watch till he was forbid
den to mention the matter again. At
family prayers next morning when
asked for his scripture verse the young
ster repeated: "What say unto you l
say unto all-watch."
W. j. Young, vice president of the
Standard Oil company from Pittsburg,
Pa, is at Neodesha inspecting the COM
pany's works. He said there would be
no resumption of active work in the oil
Geld for some time owing to the low
price of oil While Pennsylvania oil
has declined from 9Oc to soc, Kansas oil
has held to the 40c mark This is the
price being paid now at the refinery of
the Standard Oil company to the For
est for crude petroleum delivered to the
refinery.
Tho Santa Fe is building 81 new
witches in the east end of the yards
at Newton. The business of the Santa
Fe has grown to such an extent that
the already large yards are too small
TO accommodate it and it has become
necessary to nearly double the size of
the yards. The total length of the
new switches being put in is nearly
hye miles and will for time, at least
accommodate the rapidly increasing
business of the Santa Fe at Newton
The new painting machine has arrived
and was immediate put to work on the
machine shops.
Trego county has reduced its mort
gage Indebtedness over $3.50 Coun-
ty treasury is receiving five times as
much money as last year and farmers
are rapidly paying off their debts.
Nose Gum lost his threshing machine
by fire Thursday near Caldkell. He
had been threshing in the neighbor-
hood and pulled in at home to thresh
his own wheat The machine had not
been running but few minutes until
it caught fire and burnt up, including
about 200 bushels of wheat. It il not
known how the fire originated.
]. R. Turpin, of Gueda Springs, has
raised Eve bushels of the famous East
India tree beans The beans are cook,
ed like butter beans and forms luciour
dish when served up with butter.
A lebanon man drove up to hitch
ing post through which an auger hol,
had been bored. he doubled his stray
and pushed it partly through the hole
Then he reached in from the other sid,
and with his middle finger and caugh
the loop Just then the horse ierkeG
back and pulled hiS finger off at tn,
second joint
A Topeka dispatch reports that NOR
farms have changed hands in the Stat
of Kansas during the past two week
than In any similar period during tn