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

reorganize.
The annual meeting Of the Society
of friends has been transferred from
Lawrence to Wichita
The prospect hole at Wichita is to b.
sunk 400 feet deeper. Wichita people
think they are playing China.
There are enough candidates for the
Wichita postoiice concealed ia the
high grass to give handsome Repub'
lican gain.
The postal department has promised
to discontinue the newspaper train
from Kansas City to Newton as soon
as possible.
An Abilene man is going to the
Klondyke. He expects to bring back
$50, 900 in gold nuggets. That beats
running joint.
| A McLouth man, after walking 300
miles and enduring all the hardships,
has succeeded in securing about $780,
900 of Alaska gold. His hardShips are
now at an end.
Wichita offers to give Mckinley q
good time if he will only stop there on
his western trip. AS if man who is
watched as close as the president is,
could have ''good time" in Kansas
Mcpherson county will make 4 big
payment on the court house bonds this
year and clean up the rest next year.
Over twelve thousand dollars have al
ready been paid.
On July cath the Newton Mill and
Elevator company bought $500 bush
els of wheat, paying 60 cents. The
mill now is grinding the big order for
England. The wheat used is the very
best quality.
The new Smith county National
Bank building at Smith Center is to be
42x60 feet. 1t will be frame work
veneered with brick. They have not
yet decided whether the building will
be one or two stories, but probably the
latter.
q. S, Spore of Halstead township
claims record for big wheat crop in
Harvey county. He says that he
threshed 20 acres of wheat which
averaged Al bushels to the acre. He
has sold the entire lot to the Halstead
Milling company for 81 cents per
bushel.
David Fairchild, son of President
George T. Fairchild, SO many years at
the head of the Kansas state agricul-
tursl college, is giving lectures at
Manhattan on his trip to Java and
South Sea Islands Young Fairchild
has spent six years or over abroad do
ing special work,
Ed Curry, who lives five miles south
east of Hartford, thrSshed LOO bush
els of No. hard wheat from 35 acres
Of ground; the same was sold at So
cents, +. o. b., or an average of S97. 90 !
per acre. The land on which this
wheat was grown is supposed to be as
poor land as there is on the Neosho |
bottomA
Peter Brooke, who has been mining |
in Lincoln county, has become dis
eouraged at the small return and will
90 to Colorado. The indications for
coal in Lincoln county are very good,
but the output is so small compared
with the expense of mining that it has
not proved profitable and it is probable
that no more attempts to mine will be
made at present
E. g. Neadeau & Son, post traders
1t the Pottawatomie reservation, near
HOltOn, whose store was closed by
creditors on account OF the defalea-
lion oil $4,000 by trusted employee
some time ago, have employed attor-
leys to fight the attachments run
against all their property on the res
srvation. They claim that the secre-
tary Of the interior has ruled that the
indian tribal rights which the firm has
prohibit the attachments they may
Rave on the reservation. The attach
nents aggregate about $4,000
July 80 Barton county farmers begin
work on mutual irrigation ditch to
cave the river about four miles west
IF Pawnee Rock and about ten miles
vest of the point where the Koen ditch
APPS the river. This ditch will be
built entirely by the farmers, and the
stock of the company will be owned
entirely by them. The ditch, when
will be 30 feet wide and six
ieet deep, and extend from the river
N northeasterly direction, emptying
INTO Dry Walnut, about IL miles from
-he point where the river is tapped.
This ditch will secure the underhow
and overflow waters of the Arkansas
On the same general plan as that of
The Koen ditch, but will in nowise in
Lerfere with the water supply for that