Hutchinson gazette., 1899-06-29
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

turned out nearly 900 tons Of cement
last month.
During the past few days the corn
has made great improvement and Is
growing rapidly
Rural mail distribution has bean es-
tablished In Shawnee county and Will
be given thorough trial
II Is said there is only one railroad,
and that small one, in the hands Of
a receiver in Kansas today
The newspaper men at Topeka
wiped up the state house gang the
other day In game OF baseball.
Andrew Carnegie has contributed
$500 to the support Of the Ladies' Ii
brary association at Blue Rapids
Assistant State Treasurer Tom Kel-
ly has been arrested for an assault
made upon man nearly year ago.
The gun clubs over the state are
having local shoots. The sports ought
to get together and have big state
shoot.
The people OF the little town Of Peo-
tone, after petitioning and petitioning
have at last had the name changed to
Viola.
The people OF the state have at last
discovered what ''lobo" wolf Is. II
seems that 1t is nothing but common
grey wolf
The windows at the state house
were washed the other day, and the
officials have not yet recovered from
the shock
The Atchison Globe, in celebration
of its twenty-6rst birthday, gave n
band concert which was attended by
6,ooO people.
In Marion,county there are 500 dogs
and just four sheep The newspapers
OF that county do not mention the
fact with pride.
Judging from remarks found in pa
pcrs here and there over the state q
good many Kansas farmers are sorry
now that they plowed up their wheat,
A Mitchell county farmer is n sculp-
tor. He recently carved the figure OF
Kansas volunteer out OF native stone
and it is said to be very creditable
piece Of work.
John Collins, the Lawrence boy in
the state penitentiary charged with
numbering his father, is said to be n
model prisoner John has long time
to stay there. lie might as well be
good from the first,
1t is almost the time Of year now for
the farmers to commence bringing
their prize stalks OF corn to town.
They are generally left on exhibition
at the local printing Office. A better
place for them would be at the rail
road stations. The railroads have
done great deal to advertise Kansas,
her crops and her resources. A cheap
and effectual way of advertising the
country traversed by railroad would
be to make display at each station
OF the cereals that are raised in its vi
cinity. II could be done with very
little trouble, and the traveller would
not fail to be deeply impressed by the
sight of the constant succession Of
samples" at the different stations.
In this manner tourists would be more
forcibly impressed with the crop
raised in Kansas than by q survey of
the fields as the train goes whi2zing
along
Six Kansas sherifrs have lost their
lives whilc performing their duty in
one year. 1t is said that this Is
greater per centage Of loss among the
total number of sheriifs than the Kan
sas regiment in the Philippines has
sustained.
Within fifteen days Toronto raised
S2,0lo which will be expended in
searching for gas, Toronto is town
OF but ZOO people, and such an act
speaks well for the enterprise of her
people. Work will be commenced i'm
mediately.
A little orphan boy working for n
farmernea Hutchinson found u bridge
of the Hutchinson and Southern afro
and ran to the station and gave the
alarm. The railroad officials sent
him system pass and a nice fat
check.
A government irrigation inspector
was at Hutchinson this week taking
measurement Of the water in the
Arkansas river He had to get down
there during the freshet season, or
there would have been nothing to
measure.
A northern Kansas exchange says
that the last thought Of woman in u
time of great peril is how many peo-
ple will see the hole in hcr stoclsino