Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1898-05-05
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Measles appear to be pretty well
scattered over the state just now.
The measles are said to be spreading
through Kansas with the pace of the
war fever.
The old Roman spirit is being re-
vived in Kansas. Six state senators
want to go to war.
Every week car of eggs is shipped
from St. Marys, and it takes $1,000
eggs to make up such load.
In Cheyenne county there is man
who advertises that he will tan the
Feelings of dogs and wolves.
Vleits is to have bank, and as all
the buildings in town are occupied
now, one will be erected for it.
A battery of artillery has been or
ganized in Jewell county with stove
pipes mounted on corn cultivators.
Neodesha's new $40, 900 issue of bonds
for municipal natural gas plant have
been registered by the State Auditor.
Girls Kiser, the Mitchell county man
who milks seventeen COWS and patron
ICES the creamery, received 500 from
them during the past month.
In Eric patriot is at work raising a
cavalry, but those who sit in high
places have decreed that the the sol
diers from Kansas must hoof it.
A farmer drove into Jewell City the
other day with fourteen loads of hogs,
and drove home again with fourteen
loads of lumber for big new barn.
The Hutchinson & Southern road has
issued a new time card by which south
bound train No. leaves Hutchinson
at II a. M, and makes the run to
Blackwell in IL hours.
Major Boyd, assistant adjutant gen.
eral, has issued an order for all Kan
sas volunteers to bring with them to
the place of rendezvous quilt or COM
fort, or something of the kind. There
is scarcity of blankets.
Kansas has at least one representa-
tive in the Kondike gold fields who
will come home with his pockets well
lined if he knows enough to quit when
he has good thing. He halls from
Mitchell county and is chief officer in
faro lay out.
State perintendent Stryker says
the average yearly salary of country
school teacher in Kansas is only $16O.
1t is not surprising that teachers change
as soon as possible to some other oc-
cupation and leave the schools in the
hands of Juveniles.
Wichita is peculiar town. The coun-
ty has had to bid in number of town
lots at tax sales. Last year it requir-
ed an effort to keep people from NOV
ing houses off of them. This year new
trouble is being made. The people
are hauling off the lots for grading
purposes.
Mr.. H. C. Speir, of Chicago, has been
making trip over eastern Oklahoma
relative to investments in municipal
securities. Mr.. Speir was formerly
state superintendent of the state of
Kansas and is one of the heaviest deal
ers in Kansas securities in the market
to-day. He is quite we'll pleased with
the prosperous appearance of Oklaho-
ma and will increase his holdings of
Oklahoma paper.
Col. Tilton, up in Nebraska, is Civ
ing Kansas some pointers as to what
kind of an exhibit to put up for the
Trans-Mississippi exposition. The col
onel wants to see great Kansas ex-
hibit there so that when he visits Om-
aha with his crowd he can point with
pride to the lay out and say There,
boys, is an indication of what the state
came from can do when she gets a
hump on herself"
w. w. Thomas, an attache of the
American legation at Stockholm, has
just given to Bethany college at Linds-
burg $1,000 for the purpose of found
ing two scholarships of 81 900 each.
The principal is to remain intact, but
each year the interest is to be given in
prizes to the students of the college
who deliver the best original orations
in the Swedish and American Ian
guages, respectively.
Rev. Frank Atliin, of Leavenworth
county, has several pictures of various
parts of the battleship Oregon taken
by his son who is on that vessel. The
Oregon is now somewhere off the coast
of South America south of Rio Janeiro,
having sailed all the way from San
Francisco to join the Havana blockad-
ing squadron. His last letter stated
that all on board were eager to avenge
their comrades on the Maine, and it
may be that they viii soon have the
opportunity.