Hutchinson gazette., 1899-10-19
KANSAS ITEMS or INIEREsE

NNV AWcnll'tn hunhhh NolhNb Holh'
with record OF twenty battles fought
The Santa E'c eating houses will IN
tho future give passengers 30 minutes
for meals.
There ore 070studcnts now attending
The Agricultural Colleges l5O more than
over before,
A Ford county Ian who had a 60
nero field Of broom corn last week sold
the crop in the field for $3.50.
The Kansas supreme court has decld'
ed that tho special fire tax levied
against railroads in some Of the western
counties h Illegal,
A Iliawatha man has an orchard OF
eighteen acres from which he has sold
$50 barrels Of apples this year, netting
him nearly $50 per acre,
Tho boys at the Friends University,
Wichita, are highly clatcd over their
football team, Constant additions TO
the team is making It strong.
At Seneca, Kansas, tho Ringllng
brothogs, circus men, saw two horses
which pleased them and they whaclSed
down 5000 and carried them off.
Mrs General Funston performs re.
marhably on the violin, her fathers
favorite instrument, Her two sisters
are also known In musical circles,
When Governor Stanley started out
on the harbor at Frisco the battlcship
Iowa, which was there, gave him the
governors salute Of thirteen guns,
Lawrence is pushing on. Mayor
Gould signed the street paving ordi-
nance this week, and Winner has n
force OF men at work on the extension
OF the street railway line.
Kansas now has sixty-four private
banks and ninety.eight national banks,
The lNtcst private bank installed by
Commissioner Biedenthal is the Kaw
Valley state Bank OF Eudora.
President Morrison, of Fairmount
college, Wichita, will spend most Of the
college year in the east, He is en-
deayoriug TO raise $4,000 for the Gu
dowmont fund TO meet the offer of
Millionaire Picrson Of Chicago to do
nate like sum.
The rooms OF the state library which
are TO be used for the banquet, will be
darkened and arti6cially lighted with
red, white and blue electric lights.
There will be two orchestras which
will occupy raised platforms at either
end of the hall and music viii hold
sway during the banquet hour.
A Topeka man who deals in walnut
logs and lumber says he ships his stuff
TO Hamburg, Germany, because the
freight from Topeka to Hamburg is
less than the freight from Topeka TO
New York. After paying all expenses,
his profits, he says, are greater than II
the logs were sold in this county.
Seven years ago baby was left at
IN Atchison shoc-malscr's home. The
shoemaker decided to keep the child,
but in q year or 30 proceedings were
brought by some unknown person in q
local Justice court TO gain possession Of
II. Occasionally n woman whose name
the shoemaker never learned, appear
cd and made good deal of the baby,
but her visits ceased after year or so,
and nothing has been heard Of the
strange woman for five or six years.
The child is now seven years, old and
bears the shoemalScr's name, and Is
known rs his child. She shows indica-
tions Of growing mp into beautiful
woman.
Mrs. Funston is an Oakland, Cali
fornia, girl, and because OF this the
women of Oakland entertains the
whole Kansas regiment to dinner,
Charles S. Reed, once county attor-
ncy Of Wilson county, has been nomi-
mated by the Republicans Of Sandusky,
Ohio, for judge Of tho court of common
pleas.
The petition of Almcna lodge to be
allowed TO solicit aid for an Iowa
brother living there, was adopted al
most unanimously by the Grand Lodge
I. o. Of o. Il.
Word comes from Galena that the
young ladies Of that section who band
ed themselves together and agreed not
TO marry any but members OF the
Twentieth Kansas regiment will at
tend tho Topeka reception to the rcgi-
ment in body.
A La Crosse man Jared the feelings
OF the members Of the local band few
days ago by giving the organization So.
II was the first time anyone in the
town had ever come forward with any
financial assistance, and the boys rush
cd into print with a card of thanks.