Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-09-02
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

great quantities from Western Kansas.
A great horse fair will be held west
of Independence on September IA, Is
10, II and IS.
Nearly all the coal operators at Wier
City haye signed the agreement gotten
up by the men.
Beloit is to have new city building.
Beloit has fire department which is
entitled to anything in sight.
The man who assaulted Little Fannie
Bacon at Fort Scott last winter, has
been arrested in Sedalia, Mo.
The Salvation Army is concentrat-
ing its efforts at st. John and is being
rewarded with large audiences.
The girls in the Santa Fe general Of
fees will ride on the floats at the To-
peka festival and wear boomers
Two brothers named Palmer, of Oak
Valley, were in the pen at Lansing,
and one recently made his escape.
Six hundred cars of grain were in
spected in Kansas City, Kan, by the
state department one day last week.
Reno county's gang of thieves are
the slyest criminals now making rec
ords. They battle the officers every
day.
Sam Carey, laborer, at Emporia,
was caught by a cavern while dig
ging a cellar and is at the point of
death.
The normal school for Oklahoma at
Edmond this year will be opened to
students September Z, with greatly
enlarged facilities.
The Kansas farmers are putting in a
gigantic acreage of wheat We will
probably have an immense corn yield
next year on that account.
In the town of Hunnewell, one day
this week, ESQ wagon loads of wheat
were marketed The farmers that
night took over eight thousand dollars
out of town.
The attorney general has decided
that the Legislative act allowing court
stenographers IS per day is invalid.
This leaves the law providing for
salary of $3.50 year.
Leach, who killed Master Mechanic
EastbroolS, has been taken from Hays
City to Salina to avoid lynching.
Leach says he was drunk when he
shot Eastman and is sorry.
James F. Scott, a prominent contrac-
tor of Hutchinson, died last week after
making severe exertion to catch his
horse, which had started to run. He
fell faint. lay down and died.
Mayor Fellows of Topeka, was noti-
fed last week of his appointment to
membership on the general committee
of the national conference of mayors
and councilmen. He is the only Kan
sas name on the list.
Ameeting of the Santa Fe's employees
was held at Wellington last week to
make necessary arrangements tor be-
ing properly represented in the cele-
bration of Santa Fe day at the Topeka
FAN Festival, September 20
A man in Mcpherson county bought
farm last spring. He paid $1,000
cash. He has just threshed 1900 bush.
els of wheat which, at this days prices,
figures up s9,3sO. He has almost got
his money back on the first crop
The old soldiers throughout the
country are warned to be on the look
out for smooth tongued swindler
who represents himself to be an agent
for soldiers paper published at To-
ledo. The fellow approaches only vet
Grams of the late war, and in order to
induce them to subscribe he offers as
a premium a set of silver spoons or
pair of spectacles. There is no such
paper published.
within the near future l think
Kansas land will command a good
price," said Land Commissioner john
T. Frost of the Santa Fe. "There is a
steady demand for land in the western
part of the state for grazing purposes,
and agricultural land in other parts of
the state is also selling. This demand
will OF course eventually bring the
price of Kansas land up. While the
majority of land purchased so far this
year, think, has been by outside par
ties, from this time on our local people
will probably do the bulk of the buy.
ing. Much of the money now coming
into the state for wheat will be expend.
ed by the Kansas farmers in buying
land, and look for the largest sale of
land within the next years than for
a number of year past
The Santa Fc is laying dou bic
track from EmpOria to Newton.
A man who runs two threshers in
Sumner county got on a spree with