Hutchinson gazette., 1899-01-19
KANSAS ITEMS or INTEREST.

nm curly spring IN looteu lot tiiH
year.
Much Improvement is still going on
In Kansas.
The Kansas State MALTA is being
reorganzed,
. A number Of poultry shows have
been held In Kansas.
Kansas farmers are feeding lots OF
hogs for the market
All the Kansas papers OF tae last
week are full OF grip.
There are now twenty-five inmates
In the Mother Bickerdyke home at To-
pelSa,
Since Atchison got the division more
than seventy families have moved TO
the town,
A Pittsburg constable levied on the
overcoat Of man who had been sued
on labor account.
Scventy.one real estate transfcrs
were recorded in Osborne county for
the month OF December,
The helpful hen is beginning to lay
on schedule time again, and the mar
ket reports have eggs on the toboggan
slide,
State Auditor Cole has refused to
pay warrants for salaries In the last
special session, and will wait for an
opinion.
The World says that Missouri Pacific
freight crews have been forbidden to
eat In Iliawatha because the men
waste too much time visiting their
home folks,
The three best Convention Hall
prizes were drawn by Kansans. Can
II be possible that more Of these lot
terry tickets were unloaded in Kansas
than in Kansas City?
In Republic county there were 90
more marriage licenses issued in 1897
than in 1893. The Scandia Journal
accounts for this by saying that people
we're too busy during the past year
thinking of the war to get married,
The Judgment OF the gentleman who
has been printing the Razoo, at Agra,
little village in Phillips county, has
been criticised considerably by some
Of his brethren of the press, but he is
evidently all right lie has traded the
outfit for Mitchell county farm.
The ottawa Indians living in the
northeastern part Of the Cherokee ma
tion, have held a council and employed
attorneys to look after their interests
in Washington this winter. About
$50, 900 is due the tribe from the Unit
ed States, An effort also will be made
to have the Baldwins declared intru-
ders and removed from their holdings
In the reservation.
As forecasters of the weather bees
never make mistake. They know
what the weather for the day will be
without consulting the direction of
the wind or markings of the barome-
ter. II there is going to be n rain they
will not go to work, no matter how
fair the sun may shine in the morning
and II the weather is going to be fair,
the thickest clouds in the morning do
not keep them at home,
Excursions Rates via Santa Fe Route.
On Jan. II and Feb. 2 and 81, March |
and 81, the Santa Fe will sell round
trip tickets at the very cheap rate Of
one one fare plus Sc. 90 to all points in |
Arkansas, Arizona, Indian Territory,
New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas.
These tickets will bear going limit,
with stop'over privileges of fifteen
days, final return limit 81 days from
date Of sale. Before purchasing tick
cts, you will do we'll to call on some
representative of the road that reaches
all points of importance "Thc Great
Santa Fe."
w. j. BLACK, G. p. A.,
Topeka, Kans
Good things are still coming Iola's
way, Work commenced there this
week on the biggest enterprise that
has yet been inaugurated in the town
"a Portlend cement factory which
will give steady employment to 150
men, and which will turn out train
load of cement daily. 1t will be
branch of the Michigan Portland Ce-
ment company, big concern which
has all kinds of capital back of it. 1t
Is expected that from two to three
hundred men will be employed all
sUmmer in erecting the buildings for
the reception of the plant. Natural
gas, that great lodestono which has
worked such wonders for Allen county
within the past two years, was the at
traction that drew this new industry
to lola.