Hutchinson gazette., 1899-09-21

tcresting picture Of all illustrates q
prominent feature Of modern Journal
ism. IL shows newspaper correspond
cnts sending messages to their jour
mails by carrier pigeons thrown from
the bridge OF the ship while far out at
sea.
Jewell countyis yelling for ears to
carry away the corn ON hand.
Republic county is to have u corn
jubilee at Bcllcvillc the first week in
October.
The registration at the Kansas uni
vcrsity has already passed the 800
mark.
Secretary Luther Ncllis Of the Sons
of the American Revolution is at work
on history Of the Kansas branch of
the order
The book of Kansas biography which
Hill p. Wilson and Frank G, Montgom-
cry are getting up will be published
about January /,
Twelve counties produced one-third
of all the beef cattle in the state last
year. They were Butler, Chase, Green
wood, Jewell, Lyon, Marshall, Nema'
ha, Usage, ottawa, PottOwatomie, Wa
baunsce and Washington
Jacob II, Close of Phillipsburg has
discovered what he believes TO be n
rich deposit Of fire clay and emery
near that place and is making scien'
tifc investigation concerning the min
cral
Il. B, Hinman, of Pittsburg, has re-
ceived from his old home trunk made
by his father and carried by him to
California and back in the days Of 40
The trunk is covered with untanncd
calfsllin and lined with copies Of tho
"Anti-Masonic Intelligcnccr" of tho
date Of 1920.
The new shelving Cor the state Ii
brary in the state house in Topeka,
will accommodate 100000 books, There
are now in the library about $4,000
volumes OF all kinds, besides 9,7OO vol
umes in the travelling library; so II is
seen that, as contemplated, the Kan
sas state library will have room to
grow in its new quarters,
The returns Of assessors to the Kan
sas board Of agriculture show the acre
age Of kafiir corn TO be l7,159 acres, o
about 0per cent greater than last year,
Milo maize and Jerusalem corn, non
saccharine sorghums near kin TO lSiilir
corn and OF no mean value, have for
four years past steadily declined in
acreage, the former about onc.half and
the latter from $4,000 to 3,7l5 acres.
c. W. Southwark is a heavy sheep
feeder. lie will feed 10000 head this
year near Derby. During the six
months when feeding will be in pro-
gress he expects to use the immense to-
tai of between 10000 and 10000 bush
els of Scdgwcl county corn. In addi-
tion he will feed fully 500 tons of hay,
kaflir corn and sorghum in fattening
his sheep. In March he win market
them az Kansas City and Chicago.
A Scandia councilman recently sent
In his resignation and accompanied it
with check for S95 with which to pay
the expenses of an election to fill the
vacancy,
The Twenty-hrst Kansas regiment
will probably invest in tablet bearing
the names Of the dead of the regiment,
and place IL in the state house. The
regiment has $500 left of the funds CON
tributed by the people of Kansas for
the sick Of the regiment, and this mon
ey will probably be used for the tab
let.
The commissioners of Jewell county
will put in fourteen new steel bridges
in that county this fall.
Central and northern Kansas Is be.
coming a net work of telephone wires.
Almost every town has It's exchange
and is connected with all the surround.
ing towns.
When the Boyd cadets Of Topeka re.
turned from the Philadelphia encamp-
ment, they were met at the Rock Island
depot by 5000 people and escorted to
Lincoln post hail. where u reception
was held.
Superintendent Williams of the Kan
sas institute for the education of the
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