Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1898-11-17
KANSAS ITEMS or INTEREST.

Improvements hro poHlb h"NS 80
Rock Island property at Herington.
The wheat fields In southern Kansas
look exceptionally fine for this season
Of the year.
Some grand improvements are being
made on many Of the Kansas farms,
Prosperity is apparent on all sides.
Twenty-elght convlcts were taken
from Muskogee this week and will be
landed in the Kansas penltentiary ut
Lansing.
There is no getting around II, Win
Ter is here, 1t Is noted by the Gaylord
Herald that the price OF cobs has been
doubled
The Kiowas, Comanches and Apaches
Rre holding q council to decide wheth-
er they wish their reservation opened
10 settlement or not,
Brass bands in the southwest appear
10 have made moro money out OF the
campaign than those in any other sec.
tion Of the state.
The newspapers in this state con-
tain fifty per cent more advertising
than news. This is q great sign Of
prosperity for the newspaper publish
crs
A stone quarry Mt Irving ships It's
output all over Kansas and TO adioin-
ing states, and has on hand now orders
for between 400 and 500 ear loads to be
delivered before the first Of next jan
unry
A Wilson county farmer who came
into Fredonia the other day on top of
n load OF fax, said that more good
barns and other buildings had been
built in his township the past year
than in any one season for the past
twenty years.
Kansas is the most wonderful state
in the Union In Atchison county n
man bought farm Of twenty-five
acres five years ago, He never touch
ed the farm and it has now grown to
thrty-Ave acres II is next to the
Missouri river
There are several points throughout
the state where the soldier vote will
decide local contests. What fearful
worry the state would be in now, II
the vote on the state ticket had been
80 close that 1t could have been swung
by the soldier vote.
r. M. Cook, one Of the progressive
boys OF Nortonville, has been in the
government printing Office at Wash
ington for tho past five years. He re-
Gently graduated in the law depart.
ment Of the Georgetown university,
and will locate in the west for the
practice Of law.
The county commissioners In Har-
vey county are after the tax evaders,
The other day they subpened two
Newton bankers to testify as to the
amount OF money certain taxpayers
had Of deposit on the first of March.
Ihe bankers refused 10 testify, alleg-
ing that the relations between bank
ers and depositors were sacred and in
violeble. A contempt suit will follow.
Down on the Verdigris river in Mont
gomery county, Kansas the farmers
have established free delivery mail
system. The men Of the neighborhood,
by arrangement, take turns in bring
ing the mail from Independence and
delivering IT at the farmers door1
every morning. Every postmaster
with rural constituency is familiar
with the parties who come in, usually
on Saturday, and call for their own
mail and that of their neighbors.
The matter of Missouri Pacific shops
Mt Atchison will not be defiditely set
tied until after the remainder of the
Central Branch is disposed of. At
present the Missouri Pacific owns only
the first hundred miles of the Central
Branch, although it is operating tho
remainder under lease, 1t is probable
that within thirty days the entire Gem
trail Branch system will become the
property of the Missouri Pacific, and
then the shops matter ut Atchison will
be aettled.
When Wichita people succeed in pre-
venting the wholesale theft Of water
by Colorado irrigators from the ArkaD-
sas river, as there is every probability
that they will do in the near future,
the river will again become something
more than a name, There was time
that river boats ran as high as Arkau
sas City, but the irrigating ditch put
an end to that, 1t is not impossible
however, that the day may again come
when steamer whistles may be heard
on the river.