Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1898-01-20
KANSAS ITEMS OF rNTERrsT.

Big rainfalls are reported pretty gen.
orally over the state, which is greeted
by all classes.
Palmer Cox, who is just now enter
tanning the children of Kansas, is an
old bachelor
The farmers of Sumner county are
roasting the county commissioners for
repeating the costly rabbit bounty
scheme.
The average Kansas farmer has
plenty of good shelter for his stock
this season and there will be no suffer
ing among the dumb animals.
Emma &. Kelly, the Kansas girl who
Is in Klondike, has an escort of TWEEN
ty-two men, aud she writes that they
will not let her turn her hand to any
thing.
1t is really astonishing how many
mortgages have been wiped off of the
records in the state of Kansas during
the past year. Many farmers are hap
Ply over the results.
The city council of Leavenworth has
decided that gates shall be provided
at all railroad crossings in the city,
and the company must furnish day
and night Waterman.
1t is rank fake that times are pros
porous in Kansas. Upon the death of
a southern Kansas merchant the other
day it developed that he had one de-
post in bank amounting to $50, 000
A Topeka poetess says: 'Bah! Why
all this begging for Cuba. She wants
not the poor beggar's pence" With
these kind instructions the collectors
of aid should quietly pocket all pence,
if any are presented.
F. NJ. Baker. the Atchison county
grain man, whose judgement is as good
or better than any one in the business,
reports that in the Central Branch ter
ritory wheat is in better condition than
ever before in the history of the coun-
try, and that more was sown last fall
than ever before. He also says that rs
per cent of the corn raised last year in
western Kansas is still in the country
Kansas is thoroughly out of tune
when the nation is in tune and in tune
when the nation is out of tune. Kan
sas has twisted around politically so
that properly it belongs to the nation
only in name. For years Kansas how.
led hard times, when the rest of the
country was prosperous. Now Kansas
bowls good times but the rest of the
nation is mighty still and may soon
howl hard times.
A farmer named Rice, residing about
six miles from Blue Rapids, is having
serious trouble with his stock. He
has 60 head of heifers which he pur-
chased in Colorado, one of which he
noticed at the time was afflicted with
peculiar disease resembling and eat
ing like cancer. Since then 40 others
of his herd are affected the same way,
and some of them he thinks are about
to die. People who have seen them
In the feed lots say the stencil arising
from the affected cattle is sickening.
Several cattle men have been there to
see them, but they haven't been able
to locate what the disease is, and Mr..
Rice has written to Governor Leedy
and the state veterinarian for infor-
nation. This is the only herd of cat
tie in Marshal county affected in this
manner, and efforts are beng made to
keep the herd in the feed lots, until
the state veterinarian arrives and re.
ports on the disease.
Jennings D. Judah, farmer living
near Cummings, Atchison county, and
his two daughters, aged is and IA, re,
spectively, were instantly killed by an
eastbound A. r. & s. +. train neal
Atchison on the evening of January 8,
They had been in town trading ant
left for home in spring wagon. As
they approached the Omaha railroad
crossing, just west of the yard limits
the A. T. & S. +. passenger train came
laundering along. The hagman CAV,
the warning, but it was too late, ant
the engine struck the spring wagon
TSere was crash and the wagon wa
knocked into splinters, and the occu
pants hurled before the swiftly moving
train. The train stopped, and Judal
was found dead on the pilot with hi
head crushed. The older girls hea,
was also crushed and here lifeless bod,
was found near the track. The trail
passed over the younger girl and dealt
must have been instantaneous. Juda
was 50 years of age and an extenslv
farmer He had lived in Atchiso
county since his boyhood. lie leave
widow and two children.
lola will be a second class city a
soon as an election can be held
The state treasury is now groanin