Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1899-11-09
'KANsAs ITEMS or INTEREST

The Burlington creamery made its
first shipment OF butter last week.
Lebanon, Smith county, is celebrating
the completion OF a new opera house
The Seventh district federation Of
woman's clubs will meet in Wellington
November 8, 0 and 10.
At Alton, says the Empire, the wind
blew away six loads Of dirt which had
just been hauled on TO the street.
Colonel Lewis OF Humboldt is dead,
iIc founded the Presbyterian church
there one of the first in the state,
A man in a cart drawn by six dogS
Iecently passed through western Kan
sas. He was bound for the Klondike.
The seventeenth annual session Of
che North Central Kansas Teachers
association will be held in Manhattan,
November &c.
The old Methodist church at Round
Prairie has been torn down and the
pulpit was sold for use as n bar in u
Lcavcnworth saloon,
Fairview has had n bad FIRE In which
six buildings were destroyed, causing
n loss OF S95, 600. The Fairyiew Courier
IS among the losses
Seventy-two cars of cattle were UNI
loaded at Phillipsburg in week. The
cattle are feeders, to be prepared for
market in that vicinity.
Mr.. Larzelere, sheriff Of northeast
ern Kansas, who was after the bandits
there last week, did not lie down or
sleep for period Of 81 hours.
The Wichita postofiice stands next
70 those OF Denver and Omaha in the
amount OF business transacted as an
agency for the smaller postoflices.
Republic county has 10000 hogs
credited TO It by the state agricultural
board outside Of those which are emu
merated on the registration books,
j. j. Whitman OF Lyon county won n
prize Of 500 for furnishing the Mary
land state experiment station with the
best strawberry plants. There were
Os competitors from all over tho United
States.
Twenty-Five tourist slcepers, two
standard sleepers and four baggage
ears made up the equipment Of the
three trains bearing the Twentieth
Kansas soldiers from San Francisco To
Topeka,
4. Il. Hocl 1T & Son, the melon seed
growers and contractors Of Caven, are
preparing for big shipment Of seeds
this week. They will probably have
$4,000 pounds of melon seeds on the
market
Lon Gill killed an Eagle near Mus
Cotah which measured feet 10 inches
from tip to tip and weighed II pounds
Atchison millincrs would have paid SIC
for It's feathers, but the bird was
mounted.
The Santa Fc has adopted new
clock dial to be put on station clocks
The minute marks are all plainly mum
bcrcd from to 60. The change is ex
pected to be safeguard against mis-
readings,
Atchison Globe; The b. g. NJ, Com
pany wants City men to work on IT.
track, in the vicinity of Dawson, ou
cannot get them, Men will be pNit
Bl,50 per day. Still, the town is full
Of men who say they cannot get work
Five East Atchison men agreed to go
but everyone of them backed out be
fore train time.
Kansas occupies better position il
the nation today than she ever did be
fore. The high.class publications
Harper's Weekly and publications o
that order, have given more space t,
Kansas this year than in all years pre-
vious.
In the present year 80 carloads o
brick have been shipped into Abilen
and used for building walks, mostl
In the residence portion Of town. Nor
walks than this indicates have bee
laid for some brick were already il
stock
According to the report of Il. l.
Brown, clerk OF the United States dis
trict court, there have been as bank
ruptcy cases fled in the federal cour
for the Kansas district since the pass
sage Of the bankruptcy net.
A new tile floor has been put dow
in the dining room at the reforI
school at Topeka. 1t was badly neet
ed.
The Lincoln roller mills have il
creased, the capacity for making ilou
from one hundred barrels to $50 ba
rels daily.
The creamery north of Woodline is
dead loss by fire, for which tramps NJ
thought to be responsible, The loss