Hutchinson gazette., 1899-10-12
KANSAS ITEMS on INTEREST

Inc torty-fourth regiment mas III
full quota enlisted, and they arc IL
camp.
There are three Kansas mon on the
University of Pennsylvania football
team this year.
Topeka sold It's new auditorium bond,
10 the state school fund, They are I
per cent bonds,
Rural free delivery service will be cs
tablishcd on October o, at Pittsburg,
with two carriers,
Grain Inspector Clark OF Atchison has
been inspecting an average of 20 cars 0
day for some time,
A Topeka dealer says his sales amour,
10 200 pianos this year $50 being sold
in Shawnee county,
A corn stalk on exhibition at the 0s.
bonc county fair measured ten feet
from the ground TO the first eur,
Peter Staab Of Catherine, Ellis county
says that the grasshoppers have takcr
most Of his 975 acres Of new wheat,
The board Of managers OF the Nation
nj Military Homes is at LcOvcnwortl
looking into the Klondikc matter
George Il. Peck, our George, is being
mentioned by Chicago papers as pos
sible candidate for governor OF Illinois.
Leavenworth proposes to hold a cclc
bration when the trolley line between
there and Kansas City is opened fol
traffic.
Kansas hay stacks appear to be more
sociablc this year than usual At least
they are standing closer together in the
fields than is customary.
There wasn't the rush to the Kansas
City show this fall that has formerly
been noticeable in Kansas; too many
good shows nj home this season
There was public sale in Wilson
county recently which amounted TO
Sl,iOO, and only one note was giveni
just one little dinky note for S35.
IL Is said that in 1880 corn was so
cents bushel in Kansas; in 1890 IL was
so cents, and great many people cX.
pect to sec the price high again in
1900.
The secretary OF the state board OF
horticulture has issued report in
which IL Is shown that the apple crop
in Kansas this year win amount TO AZ
per cent, per cent less than half u
crop,
Leavcnworth, Kano stands at tho
head Of American cities in the shipment
of apples Indeed more apples are
shipped from Lcavenworth than from
any other point on either side of tho
Atlantic ocean.
The Lydon Current Remark tells OF a
man who recently sold l,00S head OF
steers, receiving 80 per cwt, at home,
The stock filed flfty-ninc cars and was
shipped direct to Europe, the total
value being $4,000,
The banquet to be given TO the Twcn,
tieth Kansas will be held in the new
state library room in tho capitol, tho
handsomcst room in the West and
large enough to accommodate the cntirO
regiment and more.
The material is on the ground and
work has already commenced at tn,
Rock Island shops at Horton ON 900
new box cars which constitute the ad.
vance delivery OF the orderof 900 new
cars placed with these shops a few days.
ago.
Wichita's public schools opened with
3,oIO, n gain of 40 over the first month
of 1903.
James J. McFarlan, former postmas-
ter OF Clyde, Kan, was arrested at his
home in Chicago, charged with cmbez.
element of government funds amount
ing TO S465, for which he was recently
indicted by federal grand jury at To-
peka-
The register at Kansas University
shows q total 35e Of native birds in
Kansas OF this number Chancellor
Frank Snow has put 1Ts of record.
Thepeoplc of Morland, Graham coun.
ty, give n barbecue dinner to all visi.
tors on the 10th of October, the date be.
ing the twelfth birthday of the place.
In many Kansas towns the board OF
education is kept rustling to keep UP
with the increase in the juvenile popu'
lation in the matter Of school facili.
ties.
"Downs may not be generally consid.
cred great railroad center,s remarks
the Times, "but forty-four tvains went
in and out of town last Friday and Sat.
urday."
State Bank Commissioner Bricden.
thai advises building and loan associa.
tions which cannot find borrowers for