Hutchinson gazette., 1899-10-26
KANSAS ITEMS or INTEREsr.

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load,
A Marshall county farmer expects va
get 10000 bushels OF potatoes from& 30
nere patch
I'm the Labctte County district court
thereMere during the first week, ten
convictions and pleas of guilty
The Exchange banlS OF Stockton hos
gone into liquidation. The owner
ciaimsth banking Is not profitable
Professor L, L. Dyche has 39 requests
for lectures from points In Nebraslsn,
Colorado Kansas, Missouri and olsla-
homa,
Another new electric light company
Is after franchise in Kansas City, Kan.
The promoters are James A. Blair and
James II. Frost.
Norton county is having warm
campaign over the location Of a county
high school, Every town in the o0un-
ty is candidate,
Cawlser City Ledger; "Twenty-one
months ago w. r, Oliver purchased a
SOW for Sl2. For the SOW and increAse
he has redlized sl7s,s0.
Fred Roberts OF Wellington attends
college at Norman, o, r., where all his
expenses are paid In order to secure
his services on the foot ball team.
II Is said that n Kansas man who
used to make money operating n rock
quarry in thisstate went out to Colo
RADIO and went broke on gold mines
Since the legislature established the
twine plant at the penitentiary the
price OF hemp has gone up 100 per cent.
This Is due to thewarin the Philippines.
The Horton Headlight man heard n
farmer offer lnt0per 2)9 cents bus
hel to pick corn the other day, and the
fellow actually refused. He said he
had u better thing and could make more
money
Elmdalc has race problem. A
teacher refuses TO stay with her school
II n oolored girl is allowed to attend,
and patrons are threatening to boycott
the institution. The board is trying
TO make peace.
Topeka now hasa garbage crematory
in which isaonsumed all dead animals
and all garbage gathered and carried
TO IL from the city, It's capacity is i9O
tons every ten hours. There is no
smoke or odor from II,
The Clay Center Rock Island depot
was burued on Oct, a. The fire start
cd in the freight room, The origin of
the fire Ia unknown. The ticket ease
and some other furniture were saved,
Tho loss Is estimated at $4,000.
There is more green grass In the
Rock Island lawn in front of the Good
land depot than any other place on
their Kansas system. 1t is kept clean,
given plenty of water and has become
pleasing sight to sight-secrs on the
Rock Island. The grass is as green
now MS IL was any time during the
spring and summer.
Annually in Kansas when the asses
sors OF the various townships arrange
the basis of assessment there Is roar
on account of the glaring inconsistent
cies in the taxation scheme Of the state
A great stir is kicked up, and the de-
mand Is made that this Great Evil be
Temedicd Then the kicking dies away,
soon it is forgotten, and the old yell
sleeps for another year, to break out
with the same old vigor and the same
old result, Capital.
The synod of the Presbyterian church
of Kansas has been holding its sessions
in Concordia.
:, The estimate is now made that the
whisk broom corn crop, nearly all of
which is raised in Kansas, is fully 600
tons less than last year, If this Is true
there ought to be no trouble about
good prices from now until the next
crop is harvested. Last year the jump
TO Sl00 did not come until the first OF
December. 1t is fully two months ear
lier this season, ard indicates some
What, the drift Of the current,
A man who leased a mill on the north
fork of the Solomon is watching his
rent climb up every day and is unable
70 turn wheel on account of the lacl,
Of water in the river
Kansas has her hook in that Trans.
yaal trouble. Charley and Walter
Price, formerly of Atchison are super.
intendents of gold mine near Johan.
nesburg which is owned by English
capitalists, The Kansans are both
married, and have sent their families
to points where they will be safe what
ever turn may be taken.
Ncw York Mail and Express: Kan
sas with total bank capitalization Of