Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1898-02-24
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

organized for the coming season. Sa
lima is one Of the sportiest towns il
the state.
The seed stores in Kansas are doinl
more business at the present time thai
ever before noted in the history Of tn,
state at this season of the year.
The Cowley county bar has passed
resolutions for the new federal court
Unless Topeka can be pulled off thu
perch, the division will not be made
Topeka is the sole trouble.
An Atchison girl is going to the
Paris exposition dressed in the costume
Of the corn carnival French people
will point to her and say: "See thai
native from Kansas"
If one of those genuine Kansas biz
yards should should come down upon
us from the north, it would almost de-
lay our next crops. But the average
Kansan has lived to learn to expect
anything.
At a meeting of the Cowley county
bar February 10th resolutions were
passed endorsing the division of Kan
sas into two judicial districts and cop
les were forwarded to representatives
in congress. The vote was unanimous.
Henry Martens, a Russian, is visit
Ing friends in Harvey county and says
quite good sized colony of his coun'
trymen will locate in Harvey county.
Martens is the advance man and is
looking around for suitable property
for the Others
In review of Kansas fakes it is un-
just to include the night air-ship Of
last summer. A particular white light
which was not star did float about in
the lower air in several portions Of
Kansas. 1t was never explained. Peo-
Pile who saw it, and they number hun
dreds, do not like to hear it called Q
fake.
A community four miles east of Pea
body is afflicted with black measles.
Two deaths have occurred in one
household small child of Mr. and
Mrs Henry Stovall died last week and
later Mrs. Stovall died. Six other
members of the family have been
afflicted but are now convalescent. The
public school has been dismissed for
the present
Madison is excited over the coal and
oil prospects at that place. j, f. Stein
tori and q. D. Martindale were APP
pointed a committee to visit lola and
see how things were done. They made
a report that struck the people favora-
bly, and in short time sixteen people
subscribed S7OO apiece, while others
put their names down for smaller
sums. A well will be dug Immediately
and it is very likely that Madison will
be an oil center before many months.
The Arkansas City Milling company,
short time ago, sent big shipment
of flour to Europe. 1t was handled on
commission, This shipment proved so
satisfactory to the European agents
that they have placed an order-buy7
ing outright-with the milling com
pany for 100000 pounds of -four to be
shipped as soon as possible. The mill
ing company is now getting the ship
ment ready. The Santa Fe will take
it south and the flour will be loaded on
steamers at Port Arthur.
The waterworks water at Independ-
ence has reached a density that may
well raise question as to whether it
is a fluid or solic. For irrigating
purposes it cannot be excelled, as a
piece Of poor land we'll drenched with
this water would become very fertile
in short time. The surprising thing
about it is that it can still be forced
through the mains and drawn from
hydrants OF course for culinary and
domestic purposes it is entirely use
less The receivers are not able TO
give any assurance of anything better
n the near future.
The Beatrice Creamery company,
Haskell and Boswell of Beatrice and
Lincoln, Nebraska, has just perfected
arrangements with five towns along
the Burlington between Orleans and
Atwood for the erection of sub-cream-
les Atwood has the building enclosed,
Herndon the foundation laid, Danbury,
Wilsonville and Beaver City, Neb, I'M
der process of erection. The machin-
cry and engines for Atwood and Hern-
don, Kan, have arrived and refriger-
ator car will be run on this branch to
carry the cream to the parent cream
cry at Lincoln, Neb.
In an Indian fight near Larned once
Captain Henry Booth was stuck full of
arrows by the Indians aud in return
killed two redskins
The Farmers Institute was held at
Gardnar on FaIrnarv- nth oud 11th