Hutchinson gazette., 1899-07-13

farmer, has pu, up 400 tons OF hay this
season.
Atchison is preparing TO drill to end
the coal which IL Is believed underlles
the town,
The street railway company In
Leavenworth is preparing to double
track It's line
Zinc has reacntly been discovered In
Elk county. The entire southeastern
part Il the state seems to be underlaid
with he ore,
The law compels all the road over
secrs TO remove cockleburrs, sunhow'
ers and other injurious weeds from
the highways before July IS.
Kansas girls are keeping up with
the crowd The other day number
OF girls gave riding party In the
northern part OF the state and all rode
astride.
The installmcnt bonds OF the city Of
Topeka have sold on the open market
for 10l cents on the dollar The bonds
bear but four and one.hAlf per cent
interest.
There are four elevators at Clifton
now. Clifton has big country tribu'
tary TO II and Is one Of the important
grain points on the Central Branch
railroad,
Billy Stcrne, United States marshal,
has n stern duty to perform next
month. There are three prisoners at
the United States prison at Leaven'
worth, who are sentenced to be hang
ed and Sternc Is the official hangman,
The large Santa Fe reservoir at Mo-
line burst the other night and destroy
cd about Sl2, 900 worth OF wheat The
reservoir covered an extent Of sixty
acres, and was thirty-Ave feet deep,
The break was caused by an excep
hard rain.
Those young ladies who have form
ed society whose members are p!edg'
cd to marry only men who fought
with Funston ought to take steps TO
limit their membership, There may
not be enough men in the regiment to
90 around unless such action Is taken,
and this might lead to awkward com
plicNtions,
Mes'rs Bancroft and Jones have
been in Americus for the last three
weeks trying to establish creamery
and skimming station at that point
The success OF the project is now as
sured. The citizens and farmers in
the surrounding country have sub
scribcd the So, 800 which was necessary
to be raised before the enterprise could
be success. No one individual was
to subscribe over $780, and
forty-seven people were anxious to
purchase stock A creamery will
prove n fine thing for Americus and
the surrounding country The local
tion OF the building will be decided
upon in n few days
II anybody thinks that Shawnee
county is too highly civilized to be
infested with coyotes, he is mistaken,
but II very many men do us well rs
James Gordon, of Rossville township,
toward eXterminating the pests they
will soon become soarcer than the pro-
verbal hens teeth. Mr.. Gordon, who
is n farmer in Rossvillc township, sur
prised the county officials day or two
ago by appearing at the court house
with 20 coyote scalps, which he says
came from animals which he killed on
Cross creek In the northern part OF
Rossville township Some OF the scalps
were exceedingly large and must have
belonged to good.si2ed specimens OF
the coyote family.
There is cowboy evangelist work.
ing in Kansas,
Reports from the corn belt OF Kan
sas give promise that Kansas will have
the largest corn yield this year in its
history. The acreage is much larger
than usual. Thousands Of farmers
plowed up their wheat after IL was
frozen out, and put the ground in
corn, The season has been somewhat
backward, but the corn crop is in fine
condition, Jewell and Smith coun-
ties, combined, nre figuring on raising
co. 1000, 900 bushels.
The state school fund has $500, ,0Co
to invest The greater part Of it will
probably be invested in Kansas town.
ship and school bonds
The total cash receipts OF the police
depar mo at Atchison for tho fiscal
year ending June 30 were S93, DOS. 25,
not including about 81 900 fines paid
IN labor, The total earnings of the