Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1898-02-10

tOh COuHby dhO BOSo OuO VI NNSiASS0
because of conflict between the stock
holders, which seems to make itunpro-
titable for them to continue longer.
An application has been fled with
W. E. Bush, secretary of state, for
charter for the Nebraska, Kansas &
Gulf Railway company. 1t proposes
to build line from the Nebraska river
in Nebraska to tho Gulf of Mexico,
passing through Jewell, Mitchell,
Lincoln, Ellsworth, Rice, Reno, King
man, Barber, Harper and Sumner
counties in Kansas, and having its
headquarters at Hutchinson.
THE establishment of club house in
Argentine by the Santa Fe railway
company for its employees is now as
sured. Plans for Che building have
been decided on and site will be Sc
lected this week. The buildings d.
mentions will be 5OxsS feet and two
stories high. The plan is to spend
$40, 900, $1,000 to be contributed by the
Santa Fe company, and $1,000 by sub
scriptions by the employees The
basement floor will contain the gym
nasium apparatus and the baths. The
ground floor will be the reading rooms
and the second floor will have rest
ing room and lecture hall.
In responte to numerous inquiries
upon the subject Professor S, j. Hun
ter of the Department of Entomology
in the'University of Kansas, Lawrence,
has just published full treatise upon
"Scale Insects Injurious to Orchards"
He has given special attention thereto
to the San Jose scale, the most perni-
cious enemy to fruit trees. The prog
eny of a single female in one season
amounts to over three billion iDdivid-
uals and, when these scales are once
we'll spread over an orchard, the only
remedy is to burn the trees. To dis
cussions and illustrations are added
the laws enacted in the several states,
thirteen in al, relating to the ezter-
mination of the pest. This publica-
ton can be procured by sending adj
dress to the author.
There is trouble between the repre-.
sentive boards of Franklin and Usage
county. On account of the unsafe con-
dition of the Usage Jail it has been n
custom for the officials of that county
to send important prisoners to Ottawa
for safe-keeping, the customary rate
of payment in such case being go cents
per day for each prisoner, 40 cents of
which goes to the sheriff. Recently
Usage county has manifested an indis-
position to pay these amounts In
one case, the last but one, the Frank
lin county board appropriated the
amount due Sheriff Church, and then
sent bill for the whole amount to
Usage; it was turned down. In the
next, and last case, the board declined
to pay Sheriff Church, but instructed
him to send in a bill for the full
amount, some SAC. The Usage people
sent him a draft for his individual
share S2s, but held out the balance.
1t is claimed by Usage that there is a
sum due them from Franklin for re-
pairs made on the joint bridge across
creek 10, near this county but within
the Usage line. There is sentiment
to the purpose that the board instructs
the sheriff not to receive any more
boarders from Usage,
We noted several weeks ago that the
Kansas Sunhower appeared to have
great future before it. 1t has been
discovered that the seed yielded an oil
that would beat cottonseed oil any day
in the week and that the meal of the
sunhower seed after the oil had been
taken out made the boss cattle feed.
1t has also been found that the stalk
can be worked up into the finest grade
of paper and that the lining of the
stalk can be worked into drapery that
beats linen or silk. But this isn't all
1t is now found by careful experiment
that the pith of the sunfower is so
light that by comparison, cork seems
like pig iron. In other words, cork
has specific gravity more than ten
times as great as the pith of the sun
flower. Formerly the life boats were
made with compartments filed with
cork; then it was found that the pith
of the elder stalk was lighter sub
stance than the cork, and now it tran
spires that the pith of the sunhower
beats the elder. The pith of the sun
flower will lift up at least seven times
as hard as the cork and is exactly the
stuff the life boat people have been
looking for. If some Internal sunAow-
err bug doesn't turn up TO ruin the
crop, all Kansas man will have to do
after while will be to sit around and
let his fields grow up to sunhowers.
Revenue Collector Sutton has
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