Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-07-29
KANSAS ITEMS OF rNrhansG.

The stock yards case Is still being
tried, but the people are tired Of it ant
The newspapers have quit it.
Mike Sutton will get his bond fillet
Dut by an insurance company. This il
The new practice in Kansas and it Il
how safe to be mans friend.
Kansas people should stay away
from Alaskan gold fields There Is
more money in Kansas wheat fields
than there is in all Colorado's mineral.
A bathing club has been organized
At Chanute. The members take an
awful oath to battle every year wheth-
pr they need it or not
Tue Tennessee street car line in
Lawrence is being torn up and will
probably not be relaid. The company
has under consideration the using of
the msterial in extending the system
10 Haskell institute Indian school.
There has been an unusual amount
Of heavy freight traffic through New
ton during the past week Much stock
Il being sent east, and extras have
been running in all directions All
the empty cars possible are being sent
west and south.
The safe in the postofice at Melvern,
osage county, was blown omen Thurs
day, and SO heavy was the charge of
dynamite that the safe was total
wreck. Ten dollars in stamps and an
equal amount in money was secured.
The robbers escaped.
ohanute made gain during the past
year of $40 in population. At the be-
ginning of the year it had population
Of 4,l53 Chanute increased her popu-
lation last year more than any other
city or town in the state with the ex-
Deption of two-Pittsburg and Arlyan-
Bas City. Neosho county is credited
with a gain of lii making her popu-
lation 10,oOs.
Last spring the city mills Of Abilene,
In order to test the spring wheat grow
ing in Dickinson county, in hope of Sc
curing grain that would be free from
danger Of winter killing, put out some
seed of spring wheat under favorable
conditions The first field of ten
and one-half acres, just threshed,
yielded only forty bushels, while win
Ter wheat in the vicinity gave twenty
I've or thirty bushels per acre. The
butloolSis for no more experiments.
Only sixty-four acres were sown in the
county this year.
The university at Ottawa has re-
ceived an interesting accession to It's !
roll of students Mr.. T. Fushida, a
young Japanese of 90 years, has arriv-
ed fresh from his native land to enroll
himself at Ottawa university. Mr..
Fashida, although but three weeks
FROM his native heath, has already
Americanized himself-he wears his
first suit of clothes of western civiliza-
tion-and talks remarkably good
quality of the English language Mr..
Fushida's home is at Chofu; he has
been q student at Toxic and Yokoha-
ma.
I The indications are that . large
plumber of the cities of Kansas will at
tempt to break the contracts they have
with the book companies for the sup
ply of school books for periods ranging
from two 70 Eve years Within the
past week the attorney general has
rendered opinions in six different cases
I'm each instance he has held that the
board of education of city of the first
or second-claSs has no right to make
contracts for longer period than n
year, and that If proper steps are talk
en- any ive-year contract can be anuul-
3D. One of the first duties likely to
attack the validity of the contract is
Topeka, The board of education made
p five-year contract for certain books,
and the contract has four years yet to
run. Now it happens that the state
text book commission adopted about
half the books that Topeka is using
under the contract, tho patrons of the
schools will be required to pay twice as
much for each book as they would 9th
erwise- At the same time, the books
now furnished are not as good as those
adopted by the commission. The local
board OF education is not inclined to
violate the contract, but some of the
patrons Of the Schools are beginning
TO complain and threaten TO bring pro-
ceedings to enjoin the enforcement Of
it Crane & Co. have the contract.
Mr. Crane said that he did not care
voluntarily to cancel the contract, as
At would be poor business ethics, but
that If any legal steps were taken he
would willing compromise by agreeing
to cancel the contract at the expira-
ton of two years The contract has
already run one year.