Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-06-10
KANsAs lTEMs or lNTEREsT.

The Third avenue school building a
Leavenworth viii be remodeled at
cost of about $4,000.
The assessors returns for Chanut'
city place the population at 4,l53,
gain of 313 in one year.
The Minister'S association of ottawa
has made an appeal for aid in behali
Of the starving people of India.
Alfalfa harvest, broom factory ant
a skimming station are bearing dowr
upon the unsuspeeting town Of Cool
idge.
Wellington girls have organized
society known as the merry Maids
and wading parties are on the pro
gram.
A Cowley county young man who
was educated at public expense at the
state normal, where the teachers are
made" is learning the BARRIERS trade.
There are more poets in Lawrence
than in any other town in Kansas, but
the newspapers there absolutely refuse
to publish any of the product except
at double advertising rates
Overlook challenges any town Of its
population to show more or better inn
provements than are now under way.
Four good residences and the Farmers
State bank building will soon be COM
pleted.
A heavy rain fell in all parts of Lin
coin county June ., doing an incalcu-
liable amount of good, as dust storm
had ragged with great violence the day
before and the crops were needing RAIN
badly.
Galena has its eyes sot on a street
railway. An ordinance granting the
Southeast Kansas Electric Railway
company franchise through Galena
was introduced in the city council re-
Gently and read for the first time.
A calf was born on a ranch near
Garden City with two heads, one body
and eight legs. The owner has had
the curiosity mounted and presented
it to the junior society of the Congre,
gational church at Garden City for ex-
hibition.
A strong effort is being made to have
the salaries Of the Fort Scott officers
reduced. Tie salaries now paid amount
to 49, per year while the expenses
Of the city are $780, per year includ-
ing all items. The amount of reduc-
ton proposed will be over 81, 200.
City Assessor Frenchs returns show
the population of Arkansas City to have
increased from 5,693 to 6,57s during
last year. The increase in population
Is mainly due to the transfer of the
Atehison, Topeka & Santa Fe and st.
Louis & San Francisco railroad crews
and shopmen to that town.
The record of the Beloit creamery
was broken on June /. On that day il
received little over 10000 pounds oil
milk from Beloit, Victor, Saltville,
Scottsville and Downs. Jensen Bros,
operators of the Beloit creamery and
the skimming stations named, made
1000 pounds of butter that day.
News comes from Dillon. In Diclsin.
son county, of fractional fight among
the Rowe family, which has created
much excitement in that neighborhood.
Frank Day and w. J. Rowe and their
wives caught VIM. Rowe, commonly
known as "Red Billy" in an alley and
horsewhipped him. The women dld
The horsewhipping, the men merely
seeing that the victim did not escape
They beat him over the head and
shoulders with the loaded ends of bug.
gy whips. He did not try to make any
defense and said afterward that the
first blow stunned him. Rowe received
three scalp wounds, his lower lip wa.
cut, cash cut above one eye and hi
face and back were badly bruised. Hi
will probably have his assailants ar
rested.
Kansas oil is being shipped from tn,
Neodesha refinery daily and has beer
in use for several days at Fort Scott
Chanute, Cherryvale, Humboldt an,
many other points, The operators o
the refinery receive their shipping or
aers from Chicago. The field supplied
by the Standard from this point i
known as the Kansas division and EN-
braces the entire state and portions O
Nebraska and Missouri bordering upo
Kansas, including at present Kansa
City and eventually Omaha, also. Thu
= territory nearly twice the area G
Kansas gets the benefit Of the oil pro
duced in this state. The pipe connect
ing the Thayer field with the refiner
at Neodesha is completed and preparl
tons are going on in that district to n
sumo drilling new wells at the earlies
possible date.
The whisky war at Independenr