Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-06-03
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

ng well.
Homegrown strawberries are yer.
plentiful.
A. J. Hoisington is getting up his
tory of Barton county
There is a girl in Newton who car
sew as well as her mother. But she il
married and her mothers eye sight il
poor.
So far this spring Kansas has moi
had single cyclone There is danger
that Kansas will become so good she
will fail to be interesting.
'"What are your berries worth" is
now favorite quotation all over Kan
sas. Taking one without buying is a
tavorite passion.
Even if Kansas should rid herself OF
prohibition, she would pine away for
something else to wrangle about
Kansas is merely scrappy.
Word came from the White House
The other day that so far as depart
mental places are concerned, the pie
counter is henceforth closed to Kansas.
Jehovah is triumphant in western
Kansas Heaven has shed so much
rain there this year that the 81 500 ir-
rigation plant at Colby has been sold
for Sl2O and the S665 plant at Goddard
for 500. May Jehovah continue to tri-
umph forever
Three Butler county boys got out of
Jail last week by unlocking the Jail door
with a key made from the end of
broom handle. They only got fifteen
minutes start of the jailor but made
their way to Springfield, Missouri be-
fore they were caught and brought
back.
The representative of the land de-
partment of the Missouri Pacific rail-
road has relinquished the companys
claim to lots in the townsite of Oat-
vile. The Oatville town company also
dissolved and the land comprising the
townsite has gone back to the original
owners.
Dickinson county has made gain in
population the past year of s24, with
Liberty and Lyon townships to hear
from, which will bring it up to about
1000. The population of the county
is now close to 2l,OOO. Abilene is the
largest, with population of 1881 and
Herington next with 1,543.
For several years 1t has been appar-
emit that 1t was but question of time
until the exorbitant prices demanded
by the manufacturers of bicycles
would have TO take tumble. That
this theory has now become condi-
tion is apparent to those who have
investigated the strictly high grade
wheel just placed on the market by
the Harrah & Stewart Mfg. Co., Of
Des Moines, la.
On May 97 Kansas was visited by an
other good rain, which extended pref
ty thoroughly over the state. Much
of the corn having been well worked
during the dry weather, places it right
to the front for advancement. And
the wheat fields, which were blooming
nicely, are now practically assured UNI
less hail storm visits Kansas later in
the season.
That this will be a successful year
for Western Kansas is shown by the
returns of Reno county Just
fled. March /, 1896, the population
of Reno county was %, sos. March 1,
1897, it was 6,416, gain in the year
of SIS. The assessed value of real es
tate in 1896 was S., 435, 121. Real es-
tate is only assessed on even number
ed years so there is no change in 1897
But the assessed valuation of personal
property March 1, 1906, was s479,Ol1;
March l, 1897, it was s631, 1917, an in
crease OF 80 per cent.
Mr.. L. F. Duggan, local manager of
the Missouri and Kansas Telephone
company, has received instructions
from General Superintendent McDan-
iels at Kansas City to proceed immedi-
ately with arrangements to extend the
Wichita system to Augusta and Ell Do
RADIO. No bonus will be asked but it
will require some 50, 900 or 81, 900 to put
up and equip substantial copper wire
line from Wichita via Augusta to Ell
Dorado. Besides adding these two
towns to Wichita, it will give FL Dora
do and Augusta convenient and direct
connection with Wichita, Hutchinson.
Burton, Newton, Halstead, SedQwicll
City, Arkansas City, Winfield, Yelling
ton, Caldwell and Newkirk. There is
no doubt that Wichita, FL Dorado,
Newton, Hutchinson, Winfield, Arkan-
sas, Wellington and all other immedi-
ate points will be talking right into
Topeka and Kansas City before the
snow flies.
A Hiawatha man can repeat all the
psalms. Hiawatha people have plenty